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japanfilmclub · 1 year

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Special Screening Sogo Ishii Kaitai Shinsho I wish I could go and see Angel Dust in 35mm

#sogo ishii #gakuryu ishii #石井聰互 #石井岳龍 #japanese film #Japanese Directors #cinema #film #movies #movie director #chirashi #angel dust #electric dragon 80000v #labyrinth of dreams #august in the water #burst city

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thefugitivesaint · 2 years

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“In the 1950s, Japanese cinema enjoyed what is widely discussed as its second “golden age” – a period in which the country’s filmic output was considered among the best in the world. This was a time when directors like Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon), Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) and Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri) were winning top awards in Europe. Japanese genre classics were transforming the shape of Hollywood – as Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and The Hidden Fortress were soon-to-be adapted to create The Magnificent Seven, A Fistful of Dollars and Star Wars in the West. And as Godzilla was born out of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yasujirō Ozu (Tokyo Story) was creating gentle cinematic works that are today admired as some of the greatest of all time.

But while the stars of the screen were both male and female, the influential figures behind the cameras were predominantly men; the effect of a deeply patriarchal society historically bound by tradition. Most discussions of this deeply influential period of global cinema, in fact, will have little to say about female filmmaking at all – there were so few figures consistently working in the field. It was not until a young Naomi Kawase (Suzaku) won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 1997 that women filmmakers of Japan truly found sustained recognition overseas.

Much-welcomed, then, is the BFI’s latest film season, in collaboration with Edinburgh Film Festival (EIFF) and Janus Films. Titled Kinuyo Tanaka: A Life in Film, it explores the outstanding works of one of the country’s first-ever female auteurs – whose incredible and under-seen films have been newly restored in 4K. A screen icon in her own right (highlights from her incredible acting career, including collaborations with nearly all of the aforementioned filmmaking giants, are to be shown in September), Tanaka defied the male gatekeepers of the industry to carve out her own career behind the camera. She thrived in the process, delivering works that matched those of her male counterparts and often surpassed them.

Though her directing career was short (Tanaka completed six films in nine years in total), the stories she told were vital tales of female agency and desire that were essential to the cinematic development of one of the world’s great filmmaking nations.“

#kinuyo tanaka #japanese directors #japanese filmmakers #japanese cinema #female auteurs #janus films #edinburgh film festival #british film institute

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deadassdiaspore · 1 year

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#Eric Baudelaire #Fusako Shigenobu #Palestinian Liberation #Documentary #Red Army #Radical Women #Revolutionary History #Masao Adachi #May Shigenobu #Japanese Revolution #Beirut #Lebanese Revolution #Communism #Japanese Directors

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ninjadeathmedia · 8 months

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The Legacy Of Akira Kurosaw

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#akira kurosawa #filmmaking #directors #japanese directors #filmmakers #Youtube

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cannibalspicnic · 2 months

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LOVE UNDER THE CRUCIFIX (1962) dir. Kinuyo Tanaka

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speakingparts · 4 months

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KAIBUTSU 怪物 [MONSTER]

Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2023

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sapphireshorelines · 2 months

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Rent-a-cat (2012), dir. Naoko Ogigami

#film blog #japanese film #women directors #women in film

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pintoras · 2 years

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Kusama: Infinity (Heather Lenz, 2018)

#Kusama: Infinity #Yayoi Kusama #Heather Lenz #women artists #women painters #art #painting #52 films by women #women directors #films #japanese painters #twentieth century #twenty first century #documentaries #1k

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yourdailyqueer · 28 days

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Iizuka Kashou

Gender: Transgender Man

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 11 June 1990

Ethnicity: Japanese

Occupation: Screenwriter, Director

#Iizuka Kashou #lgbt #lgbtq #trans masc #qpoc #transgender #trans man #1990 #asian #japanese #poc #director #screenwriter

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absolutebl · 4 months

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BL 2023 - Put Your Head on My Shoulder

(everyone but Thailand, in a different post)

The 8th Sense

Stay By My Side

My Personal Weatherman

I Cannot Reach You

Mr Cinderella 2

Shoulder to Cry On

Bump Up Business

Jun & Jun

The Director Who Buys Me Dinner

Why R U?

Unintentional Love Story

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#bl trope #trope du jour #head on shoulder #The 8th Sense #korean bl #Stay By My Side #My Personal Weatherman #Japanese BL #I Cannot Reach You #Mr Cinderella 2 #Vietnamese BL #Shoulder to Cry On #Bump Up Business #OnlyOneOf #The Director Who Buys Me Dinner #Unintentional Love Story #Why R U?

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ladamarossa · 4 months

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Door (1988)

#my favorite movie of the year #i was lucky enough to watch this on the big screen at a film festival with the director present #door #door 1988 #banmei takahashi #keiko takahashi #horror #japanese horror #slasher #80s horror #asian horror #japanese slasher #japanese giallo #giallo #80s giallo #80s fashion #final girl #women in horror #1980s

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japanfilmclub · 2 years

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#Nobuhiko Obayashi #Nobuhiko Ōbayashi #大林宣彦 #大林宣彦 #japanese directors #japanese cinema #japan #japanese film #japanese movies #film director #japanese books #world cinema #cinema #books on film #books #japan film club

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

- Akira Kurosawa

#kurosawa #akira kurosawa #quote #japanese #film director #film #cinema #film directing #poet #poetry #screencraft #visual #japanese cinema #seven samurai #arts #culture

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juniper-girl · 5 months

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Love Letterラブレター (Shunji Iwai, 1995)

#love letter #love letter 1995 #shunji iwai #Love Letterラブレター #japanese director #japanese film #japanese movie #grief #memory #memories #movies quotes #film quotes #japanese cinema

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wanderlust-in-my-soul · 1 year

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You're the light, you're the night | You're the colour of my blood | You're the cure, you're the pain | You're the only thing I wanna touch - Love Me Like You Do by Ellie Goulding

Moonlight Chicken

HIStory 2: Crossing The Line

Utsukushii Kare Season 2

Gaya Sa Pelikula (aka Like In The Movies)

The Director Who Buys Me Dinner

HIStory 5: Love In The Future

Tinted With You

The New Employee

Favorite "Let-me-watch-you-while-you-sleep-moments" (Part 1/?) as part of my favorite bl-tropes collection.