Interview with Mai Nakanishi, Director of Swallow
Mai Nakanishi is a long-time horror film enthusiast. After founding and directing the Scream Queen FilmFest Tokyo and working on a wide variety of films in various...
Interview with Kahori Higashi, Director of Melting Sounds [OAFF 2022]
Deceptively simple but quite profound, Melting Sounds is a moving and quietly funny first feature film from freelance designer-turned-director Kahori Higashi. In her work, she ruminates on...
Interview with Azusa Hieda, Director of Summer Wedding [OAFF 2022]
Azusa Hieda’a short film Summer Wedding received its World Premiere at the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2022 where it was one of the few films to directly...
Interview with Kasho Iizuka, Director of Angry Son [OAFF 2022]
Starting with his 2011 Pia Film Festival Special Jury Prize-winning autobiographical feature debut, Our Future, Kasho Iizuka has focused on the lives of people who...
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...