Overview of articles
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Gohatto
Korean director Sai plays the leader of a Japanese samurai militia in a film by Oshima Nagisa (whose assistant director Sai was on In the…Published on: -
Wash
Delicate water colour animation that renders places, situations and moods that disappear again before drying.Published on: -
Lost Paradise in Tokyo
Unconventional trio – the serious Mikio, his mentally handicapped brother and a lively call girl – seek happiness through thick and thin. Laconic tragPublished on: -
Reflection
Moving sunlight on a white gallery wall is fixed in paint. Gradually, a complex and colourful wall painting emerges.Published on: -
All Under the Moon
Sai’s breakthrough film builds a tragi-comic fresco of Asian-immigrant experience in Tokyo: the rip-offs and pitfalls, the subtle Japanese racism, thePublished on: -
Via Okinawa
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhaustPublished on: -
Doing Time
With a restrained, Ozu-like flavour, Sai adapted Hanawa Kazuichi’s autobiographical manga about three years imprisonment after collecting replica gunsPublished on: -
A Summer Family
Mix of theatre, dance and film about a Japanese dancer who lives in the French countryside in a commune with two women. When his daughter…Published on: -
The Women in the Mirror
Yoshida’s return to form after a fifteen-year interval takes on the important theme of the atomic bomb. Three generations of women question their idenPublished on: -
Blood and Bones
In this epic fresco, Sai explores social history through one man, a Korean emigrant to 1920s Japan (played by Kitano Takeshi), who works his way…Published on: