Tag: Japan Cuts 2020

A woman in her late 20s/early 30s stands half-naked in front of a passing train and begins to tell her life’s story. She talks fast,...

March 11, 2011: an earthquake rocks North-East Japan. Soon a tsunami follows, and next day the whole world knows that Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station...

Award-winning writer Maki (Yukiko Shinohara) struggles with a lack of inspiration. She has to take care of her small daughter at home, while her husband...

The complicated links between Japan and Taiwan – a Japanese territory from 1895 to 1945 – seem a popular subject matter for contemporary Japanese cinema....

Robatayaki is a centuries old Japanese method of grilling fresh seafood, vegetables over irori, sunken charcoal hearths, originating in Kushiro prefecture on the Hokkaido islands....

“No man is a failure who has friends” Welcome to the friendship between Kinta and Ginji, the titular duo of an indie film written, edited, scored, performed,...

Ryo Katayama’s debut feature Roar is the kind of examination of social frustration which has become a staple of Japan’s indie cinema right down having...

Sunbeams refracted through water strongly recalls the image of light refracted by the lens in a film projector into a darkened movie theatre, and vice...

Shinichiro Ueda’s highly anticipated follow-up to One Cut of the Dead (2017) is finally here, and it looks nothing like its predecessor. The director’s latest...

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s final opus Labyrinth of Cinema takes us on a journey of Japanese cinematic history and literature, especially during the early Showa period until...