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...
Interview with Oudai Kojima, Director of JOINT [OAFF 2021]
While every country around the world has its organised crime gangs, few can rival the mystique and infamy of Japan’s Yakuza. Their style, codes, hierarchies,...
Interview with Kontora Director Anshul Chauhan [OAFF 2020]
My final interview at this year’s Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF) was with director Anshul Chauhan. We had first met at OAFF 2018 when he...
Interview with the Director, Cinematographer, and Producer of Bleached Bones Avenue [OAFF 2020]
Bleached Bones Avenue is director Akio Fujimoto’s follow-up to his drama Passage of Life (2017). It is another film that looks at the shared links...
Interview with Coming Back Sunny Director Noriko Yuasa
Noriko Yuasa is a director who hails from Okayama, Japan. She graduated from Tokyo Metropolitan University with a BA in Architecture before she entered Kinoshita...
Interview with On the Edge of Their Seats Director Hideo Jojo [OAFF 2020]
Some cursory research into the career of Hideo Jojo will turn up a whole slew of movies that ranging from pink films to V-Cinema. Jojo...
Interview with Good-bye Director Aya Miyazaki [OAFF 2020]
The life of twenty-something woman Sakura (rising star Mayuko Fukuda) changes when she quits her office position and takes a job at a nursery. This...
Interview with Woman of the Photographs Director Kushida Takeshi [OAFF 2020]
Takeshi Kushida’s feature debut Woman of the Photographs garnered great word of mouth at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020. Taken with Daisuke Miyazaki’s Videophobia,...