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 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...