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What I really love about this film is the pacing, the beautiful soundtrack, and the artwork that is presented. The cinematography is also quite beautiful and evokes a great sense of nostalgia. This film was literally the first Japanese art-house film I watched at age 13 (I remember watching this film on Cinemax of all places...

Japan Film Foundation (JFF) conducted a film festival in the city a few months ago and the turnout was pretty good. If you missed out on it, they're back with an online film festival which includes a few films from the original selection, and some other picks. Its completely free of cost and a blessing for those of you who like indie cinema!

2021年7月4日 · Pink film (ピンク映画, Pinku eiga) in its broadest sense includes almost any Japanese theatrical film that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content.[1] This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features.

2024年6月7日 · FREE Films at Japanese Film Festival Online June 5-July 3, 2024 jff. upvotes r/jpop. r/jpop ...

2020年5月14日 · Criterion has done such an amazing job with older Japanese film and auteurs like Kurosawa and Ozu, I hope they go into more into late 80s to contemporary films eventually. Especially the 90s and early 2000s films that was greatly affected by the Japanese recession and the “lost generation” works.

2021年1月17日 · A terrific film from start to finish and my favorite Kurosawa film, 7th favorite film of all time, as well as being my second favorite Japanese film of all time. Pigs and Battleships - I think it is worth giving a bit of diversity in here since Shohei Imamura isn't discussed much when it comes to Japanese Noir but Pigs and Battleship is a ...

Kinema Junpo is the premiere film magazine in Japan, the way Sight and Sound is in Britain. And just like Sight and Sound, just like the AFI institute, Junpo went ahead and made a top 100 japanese movies poll in 2009, which to my knowledge, is the second time and latest time they've done this, first time being in 1999.

High and Low is kind of an interesting outlier in that it was set in contemporary Japan. It's fairly Hitchcockian. Ikiru is loooong but all his films are masterful. Rashomon is sort of required viewing for film history students due to its use of storytelling from three separate perspectives. I love Dersu Uzala, if you can find it.

2019年10月8日 · The thing is the japanese film battle royale has literally almost the same rules and mechanics as fortnite or pubg (gathering random weapons, safe zones, being on a remote island, etc.). I think that's why people tend to associate battle royale (j film) with the aforementioned games.