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Onibaba (a film by Shindo Kaneto)

Posted in movies, history, intercultural on Jun 18th, 2006 No Comments »

The film Onibaba (1964) by expressionist director Shindo Kaneto came as a shell shock when I finally saw it last week. It is an aggressive masterwork from the heyday of Japanese cinema that hits you squarely in the face – in a most pleasant way. Just as its contemporary The Woman in the Dunes by […]

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Imamura Shohei: Picturing Japaneseness

Posted in movies, intercultural on Jun 4th, 2006 No Comments »

Last week Japanese film director Imamura Shohei has died at the age of 79.
Imamura belonged to a group of New Wave directors who broke through in the early sixties and he went on to become one of Japan’s major film makers.
In his 45 films, Imamura has tried to find the essence of Japanese culture, of […]

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