By Sean Barry
With the release of his latest film, “Drive My Car,” filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi continues to solidify himself as one of Japan’s finest filmmakers working today. Hamaguchi’s movies are stories about people experiencing everyday struggles with a raw realism that is not often captured in Japanese cinema as often as once was. Furthermore, the acclaimed artist is also known for pictures with long runtimes. At first glance, this may seem like a detriment, yet every minute of his work is generally utilized to the fullest potential. This is perfectly demonstrated in his intimate five-hour epic “Happy Hour.”
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Development for the movie began in 2013 during his time as an artist-in-residence at the creative arts center Kiito Design and Creative Center Kobe, where he hosted many theater workshops. He would get the project rolling when he held an improvisational acting workshop. Many of...
With the release of his latest film, “Drive My Car,” filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi continues to solidify himself as one of Japan’s finest filmmakers working today. Hamaguchi’s movies are stories about people experiencing everyday struggles with a raw realism that is not often captured in Japanese cinema as often as once was. Furthermore, the acclaimed artist is also known for pictures with long runtimes. At first glance, this may seem like a detriment, yet every minute of his work is generally utilized to the fullest potential. This is perfectly demonstrated in his intimate five-hour epic “Happy Hour.”
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Development for the movie began in 2013 during his time as an artist-in-residence at the creative arts center Kiito Design and Creative Center Kobe, where he hosted many theater workshops. He would get the project rolling when he held an improvisational acting workshop. Many of...
- 6/17/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
By Sean Barry
Tokusatsu entertainment has continued to flourish in Japan since its rise in popularity in the 1950s and onward. Beyond movies and television, the roots of Japanese special effects production can be traced back to Japanese theatre, which has existed for centuries. For example, Kabuki has used trickery of the eye, such as in action setpieces, and the form of puppet theatre known as Bunraku tells its stories entirely through visual effects. The latter form of stage storytelling combined with well-established tokusatsu techniques would birth one of the most stylish and beautifully crafted short films in recent years: “Howl from Beyond the Fog.”
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A source of inspiration for the ambitious project is Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Fog Horn.” The classic literature piece follows two men who have an encounter with a sea monster that is drawn to the foghorn of a lighthouse on an isolated island.
Tokusatsu entertainment has continued to flourish in Japan since its rise in popularity in the 1950s and onward. Beyond movies and television, the roots of Japanese special effects production can be traced back to Japanese theatre, which has existed for centuries. For example, Kabuki has used trickery of the eye, such as in action setpieces, and the form of puppet theatre known as Bunraku tells its stories entirely through visual effects. The latter form of stage storytelling combined with well-established tokusatsu techniques would birth one of the most stylish and beautifully crafted short films in recent years: “Howl from Beyond the Fog.”
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A source of inspiration for the ambitious project is Ray Bradbury’s short story “The Fog Horn.” The classic literature piece follows two men who have an encounter with a sea monster that is drawn to the foghorn of a lighthouse on an isolated island.
- 6/13/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
By Sean Barry
Reboots of long-established franchises have regularly been recurring in the Japanese entertainment industry. For example, the ongoing “Shin Japan Heroes Universe” has modernized numerous classic pieces of tokusatsu history with movies such as “Shin Godzilla,” “Shin Ultraman,” and the upcoming “Shin Kamen Rider.” Reboots have also taken a unique direction in present-day cinema’s independent side. Such an example is reimagining a long-lost piece of Japanese cinema. That is the case with the outlandish low-budget film “The Great Buddha Arrival.”
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The original “The Great Buddha Arrival” is a lost 1934 independent kaiju movie directed by pioneer filmmaker Yoshiro Edamasa who served as a mentor to many filmmakers, including special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. Its place in Japanese cinema is rather significant as it was one of the earliest pieces of daikaiju filmmaking ever constructed, predating the original “Godzilla” directed by Ishiro Honda, by two decades.
Reboots of long-established franchises have regularly been recurring in the Japanese entertainment industry. For example, the ongoing “Shin Japan Heroes Universe” has modernized numerous classic pieces of tokusatsu history with movies such as “Shin Godzilla,” “Shin Ultraman,” and the upcoming “Shin Kamen Rider.” Reboots have also taken a unique direction in present-day cinema’s independent side. Such an example is reimagining a long-lost piece of Japanese cinema. That is the case with the outlandish low-budget film “The Great Buddha Arrival.”
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The original “The Great Buddha Arrival” is a lost 1934 independent kaiju movie directed by pioneer filmmaker Yoshiro Edamasa who served as a mentor to many filmmakers, including special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya. Its place in Japanese cinema is rather significant as it was one of the earliest pieces of daikaiju filmmaking ever constructed, predating the original “Godzilla” directed by Ishiro Honda, by two decades.
- 6/11/2022
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
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