Movie Poster of the Week: Masaki Kobayashi’s “Harakiri”
Adrian CurryOn the week that Takashi Miike’s Hara-Kiri is released in the US, a look back at posters for Kobayashi’s deathless original.
Masaki Kobayashi
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Echoes #2
Daniel KasmanOh! the mysteries found in a cup of tea. Mysteries by Kobayashi and Ruiz.
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DVDs. Soviets and the Poor, Jennings and Kobayashi
David HudsonNew discs from Flicker Alley, Edition Filmmuseum, the BFI, Masters of Cinema and Criterion.
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Marcel L'Herbier, Nina Menkes, Morgan Fisher, More
David HudsonMarcel L'Herbier's L'Inhumaine screens tonight as part of the film series running in conjunction with Cinema Across Media: The 1920s, the First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema. "L
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Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Masaki Kobayashi's "Kwaidan" by Toru Takemitsu
Ben SimingtonTakemitsu’s dread score distorts the director’s abundant visual imagination into something more like superstition.
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The Takemitsu Treatment: "Youth of Japan"
Glenn KennyMasaki Kobayashi's Hymn To A Tired Man, also known as Youth of Japan, is a fairly difficult film to see, which is one reason its December 5 December 4 screening at N.Y.C.'s Film Forum is a noteworthy event
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Now on DVD: "The Human Condition" (Masaki Kobayashi, 1959-1961)
AcquarelloMasaki Kobayashi's six-part magnum opus, The Human Condition, based on Junpei Gomikawa's postwar novel, bears the imprint of Kobayashi's tutelage under legendary filmmaker Keisuke Kinoshita at Shochiku