Yuzo Kawashima’s films are like Rube Goldberg machines, where you never know in which direction you will go from one point to another, or how do so many subplots are meant to come together into something meaningful. In his work, there is always an element of surprise whenever a new character enters the film, a location changes, or simply a cut allows for an even slighter change of perspective. And yet, somehow he always succeeds in finding the right threads among all the convoluted narratives to come up with something surprisingly simple. “Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate” contains all of those trademark “tricks”.
“Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate” was dubbed as the fourth best Japanese film ever by Kinema Jumpo, and although it’s clearly aimed at the domestic audience and many references were lost on me, there is still a lot of...
“Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate” was dubbed as the fourth best Japanese film ever by Kinema Jumpo, and although it’s clearly aimed at the domestic audience and many references were lost on me, there is still a lot of...
- 3/23/2020
- by Olek Młyński
- AsianMoviePulse
Mubi's retrospective Yuzo Kawashima's Post-War Japan runs January - April, 2020. Il Cinema Ritrovato will be staging a retrospective on the director in 2020.Kawashima Yūzō is one of Japan's most beloved directors, and, curiously enough, maybe also one of the most written-about. Books and special editions of magazines keep coming; only in December 2018, one of Japan's finest publishers of film books with a special interest in post-war stylists and genre masters, Wides Shuppan, celebrated the master's centennial by unleashing a brick of texts on his cinema that feels mighty definite—until something even more extensive will come up, of course. In the absence of any formalist tics or overt thematic obsessions, Kawashima, it seems, is as much an auteur to love and venerate as he's a character to wonder about—the quirky stuff of melancholic legends one obsessively tries to find in his films, like eg. seeing his ideal of...
- 2/21/2020
- MUBI
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