Interview with Akinori Ikuse, Director of Out of TOKYO 202x [OAFF 2022]
A mood of optimism radiates from Akinori Ikuse’s 14-minute short, Out of TOKYO 202x, a time travel movie where two people from the future, Rika...
Interview with Yuko Watanabe, Director of Boy Sprouted [OAFF 2022/Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2022]
Boy Sprouted depicts the battle of wills unfolds between a boy (Seitaro Hara) who dislikes tomatoes and his mother (Kanako Higashi) who is determined to...
Interview with Daisuke Miyazaki, Director of North Shinjuku 2055 [OAFF 2022]
North Shinjuku 2055 is the latest film by Daisuke Miyazaki, a director who has regularly attended the Osaka Asian Film Festival with such youth-focused works...
Interview with M Haris Sheikh, Director of Howling (OAFF 2022)
Howling is a blackly-comic neo-noir from M Haris Sheikh, who subverts the genre by creating a collection of characters defined by desperation, cowardice, and disappointment...
Interview with Yusaku Matsumoto, Director of Bagmati River [OAFF 2022]
Bagmati River received its world premiere at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022. It is the latest work from director Yusaku Matsumoto, a talent who...
Interview with Riki Ohkanda, Director of Random Call [OAFF 2022]
Hailing from Chicago and now living in Tokyo, Hungarian-American filmmaker Riki Ohkanda works in the Japanese television and film industries where she has accrued credits...
Interview with Mayu Nakamura, Director of Among Four of Us [OAFF 2021/JAPAN CUTS 2021]
Mayu Nakamura’s film Among Four of Us may only last 20 minutes but it makes a deep impact. A conversation piece involving three friends reuniting...
Interview with Masashi Komura, Director of POP! [OAFF 2021]
For the last few years, the Osaka Asian Film Festival has been screening MOOSIC LAB films. These works are the result of the pairing together...
Interview with Satoko Yokohama, Director of Ito [OAFF 2021]
While getting a World Premiere in the Competition section of Osaka Asian Film Festival 2021 indicates the quality of Satoko Yokohama’s latest film Ito, herwork...
Interview with Hiroshi Gokan, Director of Gotō-san [OAFF 2021]
The Osaka Asian Film Festival has a number of sidebars and one of the more exciting is dedicated to works supported by the Housen Cultural...