Essentially a vehicle for Yasuko Tomita, an idol singer and actress then at the height of her fame, to shine, Jun Ichikawa's debut “Bu Su” was still a successful film, netting the protagonist a Best Actress award in the Yokohama Film Festival, where it was also declared as the second best film of the year (after “The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On”). It also netted Masahiro Takashima numerous awards as first time actor, including one from the Japanese Academy.
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After an incident that is not exactly clear, Mugiko leaves the island she had been living with her mother, a former famous geisha, in order to go live with her aunt, who runs a geisha house in Kagurazaka district in Tokyo. There, she plans to train as a geisha while also attending highschool in the city. Her decision, however, is...
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After an incident that is not exactly clear, Mugiko leaves the island she had been living with her mother, a former famous geisha, in order to go live with her aunt, who runs a geisha house in Kagurazaka district in Tokyo. There, she plans to train as a geisha while also attending highschool in the city. Her decision, however, is...
- 4/17/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Hara Kazuo’s Minamata Mandala is a testament to how the body becomes politicized when it’s subjected to the ruinous practices of industry. The documentary’s overall effect is similar to Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah for its painstaking interest in the aftermath of human-made catastrophe, and its refusal to sentimentalize or exploit those whose lives have been inexorably altered—and in many cases defined—by corporate malfeasance and corruption.
Minamata disease, a neurological disorder caused by mercury poisoning, gets its name from the Japanese city where it was first discovered. Starting in the 1930s, a chemical factory owned by Chisso Corporation began releasing toxic chemicals into industrial wastewater, and five years after the factory, in 1951, changed the co-catalyst in its acetaldehyde-producing system, of which mercury is a byproduct, the first case of what is now known as the disease was detected.
Divided into three parts, Minamata Mandala begins, following...
Minamata disease, a neurological disorder caused by mercury poisoning, gets its name from the Japanese city where it was first discovered. Starting in the 1930s, a chemical factory owned by Chisso Corporation began releasing toxic chemicals into industrial wastewater, and five years after the factory, in 1951, changed the co-catalyst in its acetaldehyde-producing system, of which mercury is a byproduct, the first case of what is now known as the disease was detected.
Divided into three parts, Minamata Mandala begins, following...
- 8/15/2023
- by Clayton Dillard
- Slant Magazine
The end of WWII for Japan, and particularly the fact that some of its soldiers refused or did not received the order to surrender has been one of the most dramatic episodes in the country’s history, with Kazuo Hara’s “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On” being one of the most impactful presentations of the concept in cinema. Arthur Harari moves in the same path, choosing to base his movie on the life of Hiroo Onoda, an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who did not surrender at the war’s end in August 1945, but spent 29 years hiding in the Philippines until his former commander traveled from Japan to formally relieve him from duty by order of Emperor Showa in 1974. “Onoda” opened Cannes’ “Un Certain Regard” section in July 2021.
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The story unfolds in two intermingling time frames, as it starts with Onoda’s arrival in Lubang,...
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The story unfolds in two intermingling time frames, as it starts with Onoda’s arrival in Lubang,...
- 4/5/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Kazuo Hara has always aligned himself with the political left, but it was nevertheless surprising to hear about his latest film, Reiwa Uprising, which depicts the ascent of Japan’s newest left-wing political party, Reiwa Shinsengumi, from grassroots agitators to seated parliamentarians during the 2019 election. It is not unusual for Hara, best known for Extreme Private Eros (1974) and The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987), to take almost a decade or even longer between films, yet Reiwa Uprising follows Sennan Asbestos Disaster by just two years. That expedited time to completion was largely out of necessity: Reiwa Shinsengumi was […]...
- 2/12/2020
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Kazuo Hara has always aligned himself with the political left, but it was nevertheless surprising to hear about his latest film, Reiwa Uprising, which depicts the ascent of Japan’s newest left-wing political party, Reiwa Shinsengumi, from grassroots agitators to seated parliamentarians during the 2019 election. It is not unusual for Hara, best known for Extreme Private Eros (1974) and The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987), to take almost a decade or even longer between films, yet Reiwa Uprising follows Sennan Asbestos Disaster by just two years. That expedited time to completion was largely out of necessity: Reiwa Shinsengumi was […]...
- 2/12/2020
- by Forrest Cardamenis
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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