The sheer excellence of Masaki Kobayashi’s jidaigeki film ‘Harakiri’
Critique of the samurai code.
Japan Archives: 07/2024
The ‘Rashomon’-style narrative behind Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tragic ‘Monster’
“You realise you’ve been seeing things wrongly.”
The Yasujirō Ozu movie Roger Ebert called “deceptively simple”
“Saw things through his films in a way that no one else saw.”
Takashi Miike’s ‘Audition’ and the critique of the male gender role
“This wire can cut through meat and bone easily.”
“Tourists go home!”: What the current Barcelona protests say about modern tourism
Catalonian vitriol and the terror of the water pistol.