A Journey to the Center of Cinematic Madness

Split your lungs with blood and thunder! When you see the film, break your hands and crack your pens, men!

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Changes

›
After a short break caused by military service and laziness, I've decided to change a few things about my blog. First of all, this Blogg...
Saturday, July 3, 2010

The Naked Island

›
Essentially Kaneto Shindo's The Naked Island (1960) is a simple film. It depicts the hardships of a family living on a small and isolate...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Assassination

›
Masahiro Shinoda's Assassination (1964) was the first jidai geki (period drama) for the Nuberu Bagu (Japanese New Wave) director. It div...

Passing Fancy

›
Yasujiro Ozu's Passing Fancy (1933) is a slight inferior film from the director's silent era. Takeshi Sakamoto plays an unresponsibl...
1 comment:
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Silence

›
It is not easy to summarize Masahiro Shinoda's Silence (1971). In a way it's like Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) if it...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

I Lived, But ...

›
Kazuo Inoue's documentary on the director Yasujiro Ozu, I Lived, But ... (1983), is a stunning achievement. It represents a comprehensiv...
Friday, June 25, 2010

Evening Classes

›
( image source ) Nicolas Ribowski's short film Evening Classes (1967) is solely built around Jacques Tati's famous character, Mr. Hu...
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Oz
A pretentious Finnish film buff whose obsession with Japanese cinema is not necessarily healthy.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.