One Moment of Asia: The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City, Beijing China...
The Celluloid Traveler: The Secret Sunshine of Miryang
For most visitors to Korea, Miryang is just another stop on the train line between Seoul and Busan. It also happens to be the setting...
Street Mobster (Japan, 1972)
Kinji Fukasaku’s Street Mobster focuses on the short, fast life of Isamu Okita (Bunta Sugawara), a chinpira or low–level street punk with no firm gang...
Watcher in the Attic (Japan, 2007)
A young writer for a magazine, Naoko Tomioka (Yoko Kamon) is commissioned to write an article on a famous artist, Saburo Gouda, famous for his...
Shinjuku Diaries: Films from the Art Theatre Guild of Japan
Few production and distribution companies have made such a vital contribution to the development of their national cinema as the Art Theatre Guild of Japan....
One Moment of Asia: Tokyo Bay
Tokyo Bay...
PiFan 2011: Park Nou-Shik And The Delirious Art of Righteous Revenge
The 1970s were a dark time in Korean film history. These were the days of a military dictatorship and state-sponsored censorship, a time when people...
Kaidan – Horror Classics 1 and 2 (Japan, 2010)
Summer is the season for ghost stories in Japan. Before such modern cooling conveniences as air conditioning, people had to rely on more, shall we...
Kid Commotion (Japan, 1935)
At some point in time, most countries have had a national equivalent to Charlie Chaplin: France had Jacques Tati, Italy had Totò and Mexico had...
Haru’s Journey (Japan, 2010)
The masterful performance by legendary actor Tatsuya Nakadai is the most obvious central attraction of Haru’s Journey, the latest film by Masahiro Kobayashi. Nakadai plays...