NYFF 2011. Nikkatsu Centennial
David HudsonAn overview of the 37-film NYFF sidebar, Velvet Bullets and Steel Kisses: Celebrating the Nikkatsu Centennial.
Koreyoshi Kurahara
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DVDs. Jean Vigo, Koreyoshi Kurahara, Lee Chang-dong, More
David HudsonFilms by Fassbinder and Eisenstein are also out this week on DVD and Blu-ray.
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Koreyoshi Kurahara, Part III: Asaoka Ruriko and the Final Years at Nikkatsu
Nick PalevskyBefore Kurahara and his scriptwriter Nobuo Yamada laid the taiyozoku genre to rest with Black Sun, they made two “road” movies. Their models are clearly Western films, rather than Japanese novels. They
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Koreyoshi Kurahara, Part II: "The Warped Ones" and its Antecedents
Nick PalevskyThe first four films from the Filmex’s Kurahara retrospective, all from the ‘50s, show that he was experimenting with different genres. Although this is partly because these movies are based on different
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Koreyoshi Kurahara, Part I: "Black Sun" and the Sun Tribe
Nick PalevskyThis year’s TOKYO FILMEX featured a retrospective on Koreyoshi Kurahara, a director whose long-term international reputation may rest on his taiyozoku, or “sun tribe” films. He did these for Nikkatsu Studios