Strip away the politics and the grander discourses resonating from their collective cerebral cortex, movies engross and enchant; molding and inspiring younger impressionable minds, the cinematic audiovisual experience is an exhilarating tour-de-force of mind-bending effects and inimitable panache. Sat in a movie theatre with eyes glued to the screen awash in pure wonderment is the future, a myriad of potential creatives who will never forget their first time of becoming speechless at the big screen. It is a fertile time when untamed and unfiltered bewilderment possesses those hearts and minds in lieu of the irrational realities that will one day take its place for so many. For Kazuya Konaka, nothing would ever be the same again once he would emerge from a movie theater in 1978 after witnessing a groundbreaking achievement in the arts, filled with hopes of one day fulfilling his own; with ‘Single8' Konaka relives a time of...
- 6/12/2023
- by JC Cansdale-Cook
- AsianMoviePulse
Following the excellent “Company Retreat”, which dealt with sexual harassment in the working place, Atsushi Funahashi implements another based on actual events, documentary-like approach where he also functions as writer, Dp, sound-recorder, and editor, in order to deal this time, with recidivism and the way ex convicts can function within society after they are released.
Burden of the Past is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Japan has a recidivism rate of 50%. The staff at a magazine called Change, which is run by Takashi Nagata, want to lower that by rehabilitating former prisoners, with Funahashi creating a docudrama focusing on both them and the convicts they try to help, though a year of their workshops, therapy, efforts to get them jobs and a stage performance that serves as the second part of the movie. As he delves more into the whole concept, the difficulties both have to face, both internally and externally,...
Burden of the Past is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Japan has a recidivism rate of 50%. The staff at a magazine called Change, which is run by Takashi Nagata, want to lower that by rehabilitating former prisoners, with Funahashi creating a docudrama focusing on both them and the convicts they try to help, though a year of their workshops, therapy, efforts to get them jobs and a stage performance that serves as the second part of the movie. As he delves more into the whole concept, the difficulties both have to face, both internally and externally,...
- 3/14/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
A harsh reality is that many of Japan’s earliest years of filmmaking are forever lost, most of which were destroyed in the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and the firebombings of World War II. Movies that merely live on as historical memories include many of the early pictures of renowned filmmakers, such as Yasujiro Ozu. Yet, thankfully a small amount of Japanese silent cinema still survives. One notable work is “Apart from You,” an early gem directed by Mikio Naruse and one of the country’s first features to show struggles and hardships from the perspective of women.
A mother named Kikue works as a geisha to earn money for a living and help support her teen son Yoshio. However, her offspring is ashamed of her work profession, which strains their relationship, all while he’s skipping classes and getting involved in gangs. Ironically, the troubled youth is...
A mother named Kikue works as a geisha to earn money for a living and help support her teen son Yoshio. However, her offspring is ashamed of her work profession, which strains their relationship, all while he’s skipping classes and getting involved in gangs. Ironically, the troubled youth is...
- 2/26/2023
- by Sean Barry
- AsianMoviePulse
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