Tag: yoshihironakamura

Since 2004 the Japan Foundation has been bringing diverese lineups of finely programmed Japanese cinema to UK shores. Consisting mainly of contemporary works, with the odd anniversary screening and classic to enrichen the mix, this annual Touring Programme offers the...

A young woman, Kubo, begins to hear a strange, swishing sound from the bedroom in her apartment. Convinced that the source is supernatural she contacts a novelist, I, who specializes in writing about her fans’ ghost stories. Together Kubo and...

Of the current crop of high end international directors today few have handled the transition from quirky indie fave to massive commercial success while retaining the quirk that drew everyone's attention in the first place better than Nakamura Yoshihiro. Rising...

A young and beautiful office lady has been brutally murdered in a national park near Tokyo. With no suspects in sight, the mysterious case seems to be barely moving forward, until an ambitious, ramen-loving journalist seeking publicity starts throwing accusations...

Ah, the 'unfilmable' novel. Go back ten or fifteen years and it seems everyone had some sort of list of great novels that could never be brought to the screen. The limitations at the time were largely technical and in...

Our good friends at one of the world's finest DVD distribution labels, Third Window Films, have given us an early look at their 2013 schedule, and it looks awesome!Several of these titles are films we've already previewed for TWF in...

[Our thanks to Lauren Baggett for the following.]Well into the final reel of Golden Slumber, the climax was interrupted by an automated voice (bilingual: this is Quebec, after all) warning us that a fire alarm had been pulled, and that...

[Our thanks to Joshua Chaplinsky for the following review which is being bumped up to the top of the page to coincide with its Fantasia screening today.]Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I'm seeing? A man-on-the-run...

Golden Slumber fills my eyes, but what exactly is it I'm seeing? A man-on-the-run conspiracy thriller, mixing JFK and The Bourne Identity? Or a treatise on friendship lost, the repairing of bonds, and finding one's way "back home"? The film...

[Our thanks to Sam Bakhtiar for the following review.]I went into this film blind. Knowing nothing about it's rich background, which includes a previous full-length film, a television drama series and a series of novels, it might seem difficult to...