Japanese film
Nobuhiro Yamashita’s Linda Linda Linda deconstructs the typical rhythms of the high school band movie
“Love Hotel,” a 1985 pinku film, stands as a funny little curiosity in the larger filmography of Shinji Sômai.
Shinji Somai’s magnificent 1993 coming-of-age film, Moving—now available in a new 4K restoration from Cinema Guild—can be interpreted in several ways.
Alex Lines spoke with the festival programmer of the JFF 2020 online festival, Susan Bui.
Japanese master filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi’s final movie Labyrinth of Cinema is a love-song to movies and a reckoning with Japanese history.