... Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen/Ryûzô to 7 nin no kobun tachi (2015) to violent yakuza dramas such as Outrage/Autoreiji (2010) and its sequels Outrage Beyond/Autoreiji: Biyondo (2012, sometimes listed as Beyond Outrage) and Outrage Coda ...
... Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015). More recently, he appeared in the live action remake of Ghost in the Shell (2017). ESSENTIAL ANIME Akira (Ōtomo Katsuhiro; 1988). Dynamic action sequences drive forward this nihilistic sci-fi fantasy ...
... Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015). More recently, he appeared in the live action remake of Ghost in the Shell (2017). The Seven Samurai (Shichinin no Samurai; Kurosawa Akira; 1954). A small village in sixteenth-century Japan is fed up ...
This collection of essays by Casio Abe, one of Japan's preeminent cultural critics, examines both Kitano's films and his Beat Takeshi persona, offering an incisive and revelatory critique of the Japanese consumer culture which Kitano's ...
This is a multi-generational political history of the Hatoyamas, a family that has participated at the highest levels of Japan's parliamentary government from its inception in the late 1800s.
Collecting some of the best writing on film ever put on paper, this is a perfect book for film buffs.
The book shows how Kurosawa attempted to symbolize on film a course of national development for post-war Japan, and it traces the ways that he tied his social visions to a dynamic system of visual and narrative forms.
These essays are clear and readable—that is, sophisticated and meaty yet not overly technical or jargon-heavy.
Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and violence in the American grain.