Ryusuke Hamaguchi optimally leverages the audio-visual medium of cinema and spun it delicately in a mystifying narrative to look at modern romance and relationships. Born in 1978, his debut film Passion (2008)…
Tag: Mikio Naruse
“This list is an attempt to highlight some of the best silent films from the Japanese film industry.” The silent-era cinema was truly one of the most creative eras in cinema; its…
An examination of consequences for a woman ‘who ascends the stairs’ in the post-war Japanese society. Mikio Naruse is regarded as one of the leading proponents of the shōshimin-eiga genre – essentially…
Mikio Naruse was one of the eminent masters of classical Japanese cinema who made 80+ films in a career stretching from the silent period to the 1960s. Though he made the most…
There’s a wonderful ambiguity in the quiet, self-contained on-screen persona of Setsuko Hara, best known for her phenomenal performance in Ozu’s Noriko Trilogy – Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1951), and Tokyo…