Lonely Swallows is a documentary presented by the Hamamatsu Gakuin University, located in Hamamatsu, an industrial city dominated by auto industry; it is co-directed by Tsumura Kimihiro, a professor at said university, and filmmaker Nakamura Mayu. Hamamatsu is also the city with ... Read More »
In his debut feature film Nankyoku ryorinin (2009), translated as “Antarctic cook,” Okita Shuichi presented an all-male scientific crew living and working together at the research facility Dome Fuji Station located on the Antarctic plateau (an actual research station established ... Read More »
After more than a four-year absence from filmmaking—principally due to his arrest in 2005 for possession of banned stimulants—Toyoda Toshiaki returned to cinema with the more than aptly titled The Blood of Rebirth in 2009. However, this film set in a medieval fantasy world is a b... Read More »
For its sixth consecutive year beginning tonight, Japan Cuts: the New York Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema, will screen nearly forty feature films, more films than it has ever had since its inception. The ongoing New York Asian Film Festival (29 June – 15 July) will co-p... Read More »
