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,...
Interview with For Rei Director Yukari Sakamoto [OAFF 2020]
Yukari Sakamoto is an indie director who started making films while she was studying Philosophy at Sophia University. Her film Obake was part of MOOSIC...
Interview with Yan Director Keisuke Imamura [OAFF 2020]
Yan is the feature debut by Keisuke Imamura, a cinematographer who began his career by teaching himself to shoot independent films while studying at Nihon...
Interview with The Modern Lovers Director Atsuro Shimoyashiro [OAFF 2020]
Atsuro Shimoyashiro was at this year’s Osaka Asian Film Festival with The Modern Lovers, a sexually explicit story about two former lovers reuniting, raking over...
Interview with Reiko and the Dolphin Director Shinji Imaoka [OAFF 2020]
At the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020 were two veteran pink film directors: Hideo Jojo and Shinji Imaoka. Both had brought dramas far away from...
Interview with VIDEOPHOBIA Director Daisuke Miyazaki [OAFF 2020]
One of the highlights of the Osaka Asian Film Festival 2020 was VIDEOPHOBIA, the latest work of Daisuke Miyazaki. A frequent visitor to Osaka, many...
Interview with The Murders of Oiso Director Misawa Takuya [OAFF 2020]
Takuya Misawa hails from Kanagawa and is a graduate from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He worked on various film productions as crew...
Life, Death and Unfulfilled Desires: Teng Congcong on Send Me to the Clouds
Teng Congcong’s bittersweet debut feature Send Me to the Clouds is the latest in a welcome wave of films by female Chinese directors which includes...
On Light and Shadow: A Conversation with Crosscurrent Director Yang Chao
For his second feature, director Yang Chao presents a trek that is at once ordinary and extraordinary: a largely solitary journey on a river in...
Interview with Randen: The Comings and Goings on a Kyoto Tram Director Takuji Suzuki [OAFF 2019]
If you travel to Kyoto, then it is highly recommended that you try travelling from scenic Arashiyama to the bustling city centre by the Randen...