The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Asian Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Shugoro Yamamoto’s The Town Without Seasons includes the stories upon which Akira Kurosawa drew for Dôdesukaden, one of his most trenchant and haunting achievements. […]
Daily Archives: October 21, 2007
Imamura’s Pornographers (1966) is chiseled in black and white; most subsequent Imamura films, however, are messy and in color: a better indicator, perhaps, of his vision of overflowing humanity. Kamigami no Fukaki Yokubo was Imamura’s first film in this mode. Kariya, a Tokyo engineer, visits an island south of Japan, planning for the construction of […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Asian Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Nagisa Oshima’s Koshikei is the blackest black comedy. A Korean boy, hanged for raping and killing Japanese girls, survives his execution, throwing the Japanese […]
