Tag: masakikobayashi
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Re-explores THE HUMAN CONDITION
What’s to be said about The Human Condition? In the case of the epic-length Japanese film of that title made, plenty. Directed by Masaki Kobayashi (Harikiri) and released in three distinct parts between 1959 to 1961, the whole 579 minutes of The...
Blu-ray Review: KWAIDAN, Sensational, Surreal Colors Of An Ancient Japanese World
From the opening moments of 1965's ghostly anthology Kwaidan, the viewer experiences a dissonant display of color and atmosphere matched only by its precisely sparse experimental musical score (courtesy of Takemitsu Toru). Recounting four disparate yet separate classical ghost stories from...
