Part 1: Where Did We Go Wrong? As the number of art house theaters and distributors diminishes year after year, what remains of Tokyo’s once vibrant and vital international film scene? One of the
Possibly the most interesting feature of the Ghibli Museum, located in Mitaka, is its small movie theater. It’s here that audiences can discover new and unreleased shorts by Hayao Miyazaki. Having
French cinema has enjoyed a rather long shelf life in Japan, having represented for several decades the largest number of imported foreign titles, after American releases, and playing a significant
As Japan enters another season of social-economic woes which fail to find a filmic voice to address the state of affairs, instead releasing a number of vacuous titles, the recent Berlinale rewards seem
Here’s a mantra that has served me well: “in Japan, the French New Wave is to cinema what Impressionism is to painting”. Except for Claude Chabrol, the other founding New Wave members—Godard, Truffaut
If the nineties were the years which marked the return of Japanese cinema on the international film circuit, introducing and establishing numerous directors working in various genres who, in most
勝手にしやがれ (KATTE NI SHIYAGARE) In François Truffaut’s fourth episode of the Antoine Doinel saga, Bed and Board (1970), Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) embarks on an affair with a Japanese woman, Kyoko (Hiroko