Actor turned director turned actor again Kazuhiko Hasegawa had a very brief spur with his second capacity, but both of his works were rather successful. “The Man Who Stole the Sun” was considered on of the best titles of 1979 and has gathered a kind of a cult following, while Shohei Imamura-produced “Youth Killer”, shot four years before that, netted him and protagonist Mieko Harada a number of awards throughout Japan, particularly from Kinema Junpo.
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All the relationships Jun, a young man has, are rather extreme. His parents love him, but they have very specific purposes for him, having forced him to not go ahead with his schooling but instead run the family's snack bar, since the tire business the family is currently dealing with, has been declining for years. Jun has a girlfriend, Keiko, who seems quite hung up on him,...
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All the relationships Jun, a young man has, are rather extreme. His parents love him, but they have very specific purposes for him, having forced him to not go ahead with his schooling but instead run the family's snack bar, since the tire business the family is currently dealing with, has been declining for years. Jun has a girlfriend, Keiko, who seems quite hung up on him,...
- 8/12/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
In the vast plethora of literary works adapted into Japanese cinema, it is a wonder why Fuminori Nakamura’s Oe Prize Winner “The Thief” has not been transferred to the big screen yet, although, considering the “The Gun” has already done so, this one will not be delayed much longer. Let us take a closer look at this truly great book, though.
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The Thief, who remains nameless throughout the novel, is a seasoned pickpocket, whose thought and mentality about “the art” could provide material for a comprehensive manual. In his tailored suit, he moves through the crowds, preferring trains and subway stations, scans his victims, and proceeds on “lightening” them from their wallets with an ease that occasionally even leads him to forget his deeds. He is also a loner, with no visible social connections of any kind, which essentially, allows him to deal exclusively with his chosen “profession”. He does have a past,...
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The Thief, who remains nameless throughout the novel, is a seasoned pickpocket, whose thought and mentality about “the art” could provide material for a comprehensive manual. In his tailored suit, he moves through the crowds, preferring trains and subway stations, scans his victims, and proceeds on “lightening” them from their wallets with an ease that occasionally even leads him to forget his deeds. He is also a loner, with no visible social connections of any kind, which essentially, allows him to deal exclusively with his chosen “profession”. He does have a past,...
- 4/14/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
After asking a number of artists that appear in our reviews and interviews, both in Amp and Asian Film Vault, to list their favorite movies of their country, we inaugurate a new column in Asian Movie Pulse, where we are going to present their selections.
The first “guest” of the column is no other than Toshiaki Toyoda, director of “Pornostar“, “Blue Spring”, “Hanging Garden” and “9 Souls” among others.
Here are his top ten Japanese films, in random order.
1. The Man Who Stole the Sun
A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.
2. Knock Out
A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.
3. Woman in the Dunes
An entomologist on vacation is trapped...
The first “guest” of the column is no other than Toshiaki Toyoda, director of “Pornostar“, “Blue Spring”, “Hanging Garden” and “9 Souls” among others.
Here are his top ten Japanese films, in random order.
1. The Man Who Stole the Sun
A high school science teacher builds an atomic bomb and uses it to extort the nation, but cannot decide what he wants. Meanwhile, a determined cop is catching up to him, as is radiation poisoning.
2. Knock Out
A Japanese boxer stages a dramatic and dangerous comeback after suffering brain damage in the ring.
3. Woman in the Dunes
An entomologist on vacation is trapped...
- 5/3/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Jia Zhangke, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland will serve on the first jury for the Toronto International Film Festival's new competitive program, Platform. Laura Poitras, director of the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour, is suing the U.S. government for having been subjected to "Kafkaesque harassment." Kristin Scott Thomas has been named an officer of the Legion d’Honneur in France. Someone's stolen F.W. Murnau's skull. Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum on Leos Carax, Robert Greene on Joshua Oppenheimer and Adam Curtisç, Grady Hendrix on Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Man Who Stole the Sun—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 7/15/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Jia Zhangke, Claire Denis and Agnieszka Holland will serve on the first jury for the Toronto International Film Festival's new competitive program, Platform. Laura Poitras, director of the Edward Snowden documentary Citizenfour, is suing the U.S. government for having been subjected to "Kafkaesque harassment." Kristin Scott Thomas has been named an officer of the Legion d’Honneur in France. Someone's stolen F.W. Murnau's skull. Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum on Leos Carax, Robert Greene on Joshua Oppenheimer and Adam Curtisç, Grady Hendrix on Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Man Who Stole the Sun—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 7/15/2015
- Keyframe
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A new-ish film journal has grabbed our attention. Interiors is a unique online monthly publication that hones in on a different film each issue, and focuses on the architecture in a particular scene and its expressive qualities. For example, the elevator in Drive, the apartment from Contempt, and in their timely latest edition, which dropped over the weekend, the bank in The Dark Knight. Be sure to give their work a look. They're also in the business of making nifty art prints. With this new Nisimazine Special focusing on the East of the West Competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the official publication of Nisi Masa presents its third edition of the Special Series, a complementary addition to their Film Journalism Workshops for young critics. Peter Greenaway told The Hollywood Reporter that he plans to make a film about Sergei Eisenstein titled Eisenstein in Guanajuato that would...
A new-ish film journal has grabbed our attention. Interiors is a unique online monthly publication that hones in on a different film each issue, and focuses on the architecture in a particular scene and its expressive qualities. For example, the elevator in Drive, the apartment from Contempt, and in their timely latest edition, which dropped over the weekend, the bank in The Dark Knight. Be sure to give their work a look. They're also in the business of making nifty art prints. With this new Nisimazine Special focusing on the East of the West Competition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the official publication of Nisi Masa presents its third edition of the Special Series, a complementary addition to their Film Journalism Workshops for young critics. Peter Greenaway told The Hollywood Reporter that he plans to make a film about Sergei Eisenstein titled Eisenstein in Guanajuato that would...
- 7/18/2012
- MUBI
"The forefront of the Japanese New Wave, Atg or the Art Theater Guild, was a collective of some of the greatest auteurs of Japan's post-war history," writes Mark Ayala at the top of his list here at Mubi. Besides producing and distributing films from the early 60s through the mid-80s by the likes of Nagisa Oshima, Shohei Imamura and Seijun Suzuki, the Atg also published a pamphlet, and, with the help of Robert Nishimura, Miguel Patrício has been putting individual issues online. The latest addition to the Art Theatre Guild Pamphlet Project is #123, focusing on Kazuhiko Hasegawa's The Youth Killer (1976).
Granted, those of us who don't read Japanese aren't going to be able to delve into these pamphlets in the way that we've been delving into the issues of Cahiers du Cinéma in English that have appeared online in the past few days, but as with those yellowed pages,...
Granted, those of us who don't read Japanese aren't going to be able to delve into these pamphlets in the way that we've been delving into the issues of Cahiers du Cinéma in English that have appeared online in the past few days, but as with those yellowed pages,...
- 9/26/2011
- MUBI
KYÔKO Koizumi, Inowaki Kai, Teruyuki Kagawa, And YÛ Koyanagi In Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa'S Tokyo Sonata. Courtesy Regent Releasing. Over the past decade or so, Kiyoshi Kurosawa has established himself as one of the most interesting genre directors in world cinema. The Japanese writer-director was born in Kobe in 1955, and first made 8mm shorts while studying Sociology at Rikko University. He began directing features in the early 1980s, working on direct-to-video titles, including yakuza movies, and studied under the tutelage of directors Shinji Somai and Kazuhiko Hasegawa. He then had minor successes with films like the college-set drama The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985) and the blackly comic thriller Guard from the...
- 3/25/2009
- by Nick Dawson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
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