Cannes 2012. Kôji Wakamatsu's "11/25 The Day Mishima Chose His Fate"
Daniel KasmanKôji Wakamatsu continues his look at Japanese history with a micro-biopic on the passion of Yukio Mishima.
Koji Wakamatsu
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Daily Briefing. "Wings" and News
David HudsonDennis Lim on United Red Army, the LAT’s directors roundtable and more.
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Japan Society to Premiere New Films by Wakamatsu and Tsukamoto
David HudsonLove Will Tear Us Apart is “a series of twisted, obsessive, heart-blazing love stories from Japan and Korea.”
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First Look 2012
Jesse CataldoA guide to New York’s new film festival of overlooked treasures playing at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens.
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Daily Viewing. Trailer for Wakamatsu's "Kaien Hotel Blue"
David HudsonAfter 11.25 Jiketsu no Hi: Mishima Yukio to Wakamonotachi, this will be the second film from Koji Wakamatsu in 2012.
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Daily Briefing. Trailer for Wakamatsu's "Mishima"
David HudsonAlso: Saul Bass’s sole directorial effort. Bertolucci in Melbourne. Berlinale 2012 retrospective. Elvis and Nixon and more.
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"United Red Army" + Vampires, Sequels and More
David HudsonOf course there'll be another roundup on The Tree of Life. But first, let's give a little breathing room to some of the other films opening this Memorial Day Weekend. "The extreme leftists of the
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"Caterpillar," "Lord Byron," "The Beaver," "Thor," More
David Hudson"A onetime yakuza turned jailbird turned filmmaking enfant terrible, the now-75-year-old Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu has long been loved by cinema cultists for an outrageous string of 1960s provocations
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Out of the Past 2010: Some Favorite Film Double Features
David PhelpsWe at MUBI think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection
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Wakamatsu, "Burlesque," "Tangled," More
David Hudson"We have exciting news on the horizon for Kôji Wakamatsu fans," tweeted Kino Lorber a few days ago. "An official theatrical release of United Red Army???" asked Kenji Fujishima. The answer was
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"Peepli Live," "The Expendables," Ozon, Wakamatsu, More
David HudsonSo we've got entries going on David Michôd's Animal Kingdom and Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs the World and we've checked in on various local scenes. Here's a sampling of what the critics are saying
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Johnny Got His Gun: "Caterpillar" (Koji Wakamatsu, Japan)
David CairnsKoji Wakamatsu's Caterpillar, screening at Edinburgh International Film Festival, is a short yet grueling tale of domestic horror set in a semi-depopulated Japanese village during World War Two