Tag: nikkatsu

From his beginnings as a 14-year-old with a Super 8 camera, to his latest film, KILLING; a twist on the classic samurai movie, Tsukamoto Shinya has always blazed his own cinematic path.     Receiving Japan Cuts 2019 Cut Above award...

After making a splash on the international genre scene with his appropriately titled feature Grotesque, Japanese director Shiraishi Koji returns with Japanese-Korean co-pro A Record Of Sweet Murder and, once again, he's headed for the dark side.Soyeon is an active...

The ScreenAnarchy curated Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years Of Nikkatsu screening series continues at the TIFF Bell Lightbox this Saturday with a rare screening of Kawashima Yuzo's Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District.  Considered one of the greatest Japanese films of all...

The ScreenAnarchy curated Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years Of Nikkatsu screening series continues this Saturday with a rare screening of Kurahara Koreyoshi's Intimidation. Kurahara's film is one of the purest examples of a Japanese take on American film noir and has...

One of the great things about TIFF finally getting a home space is their ability to curate niche mini-festivals. Even more great is that they give the likes of ScreenAnarchy's own Todd Brown a chance to bring an unappreciated sub-genre...

The ScreenAnarchy curated Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years Of Nikkatsu screening series kicks off Saturday with a rare screening of Hasebe Yusaharu's Massacre Gun. A hard boiled tale that pits bad men against worse men from the helmer of the Stray...

The TIFF Bell Lightbox here in Toronto announced today a major Japanese focus for the upcoming winter season with three major Japanese themed programs among them Japanese Divas: The Great Actresses of Japanese Cinema's Golden Age and The Catch: Japanese...