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...
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...
Interview with Sisterhood Director Takashi Nishihara and Star Manami Usamaru [OAFF 2019]
With inequality on the rise worldwide and identity politics a hot topic issue, filmmakers everywhere have their work cut out trying to keep up with...
Interview with Genta Matsugami [OAFF 2019]
Born in Hiroshima in 1981, Genta Matsugami is a film director who operates the creative production-house16 bit.inc. He graduated from Osaka University of Arts in...
Interview with Akiyoshi Koba [OAFF 2019]
Akiyoshi Koba is a graduate of Taisho University’s Japanese Language and Literature course. He now works as a part-time lecturer at Nagaoka Zokei University and...
Interview with Yoshinori Sato [OAFF 2019]
Yoshinori Sato was born in Aichi, Japan on February 1975. After graduating from high school, he travelled to the US to study filmmaking at the...
Moments of imperfect harmony: an interview with Catherine Lee
Though the title of Catherine Lee’s documentary short 9 at 38 (2017) is cleverly and enticingly succinct, a possible subtitle could be ‘Orchestral and political...
Interview with the Cast and Crew of Filled with Steam [OAFF 2018]
At the Osaka Asian Film Festival, Filled with Steam (2017) was one of the films screened at the Housen section, a place reserved for films...
Interview with Kohei Takayama [OAFF 2018]
Kohei Takayama was born in Chiba prefecture in 1987. After graduating from Waseda University, he began making indie films such as Ni naru (2015) and...