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The Image It Bears | “Ainu Mosir”
Ainu Mosir Japan/USA/China, 2020, 84 minutes. Directed and written by Takeshi Fukunaga. The last few years have witnessed the springing...
Oct 11, 2020

Book review | "Romance in Post-Socialist Chinese Television"
Chinese media scholar Huike Wen’s new book, Romance in Post-Socialist Chinese Television , was published in July 2020 by Palgrave...
Oct 6, 2020


Why is not the right question | Book "Spirited Away"
In this compact study, author Andrew Osmond conducts a detailed textual analysis of one of Miyazaki’s most remarkable animation works,...
Jul 19, 2020


The Japan Cinema ANT | "The Japanese Cinema Book"
Part 1 of the Japanese Cinema Book focuses on the theories and approaches of Japanese film studies in both Japan and Anglo-Saxon...
Jul 17, 2020

Far away, too close | Nippon Connection 2020
Naomi Mizoguchi focused her camera on another voice that has been neglected and silenced for hundreds of years, which is the voice of...
Jun 9, 2020


The World’s Wars | "War of the Worlds"
In March when the Coronavirus started to swarm into Italy, a number of eminent philosophers published their immediate reflections on the...
Jun 4, 2020


Never been strangers | "La Belle Noiseuse"
We must detect the spirit, the informing soul in the appearances of things and beings. Effects! What are effects but the accidents of...
May 29, 2020


The Post-Genre Kingdom | "Kingdom"
In 2019, Netflix released its first original Korean series, Kingdom ; a second season, which was also favorably received, came out in...
Apr 16, 2020


Generous Complicity | “Complicity”
While China has become the world’s second largest economy and the No. 1 source of overseas visitors for Japan, the film Complicity runs...
Jan 26, 2020

老去的西西弗斯 | 《Old Men Never Die(老人永生)》
“西比尔,你想要什么?” 她回答:“我想要死亡”。——佩特罗尼乌斯,《萨蒂利孔》 伊朗导演Reza Jamali的电影长片处女作《老人永生》讲述了一群百岁老人在一个地远人稀的村庄里“长生”不死的故事。他们器官衰老、行动缓慢、变得无欲无求,却总也等不来生命的终点。生命的终章...
Nov 24, 2019

21世纪女子,你是谁? | 《 21世纪女子》
一部名为《 21世纪女子》的短片集,囊括了15部各时长8分钟的“ 献给21世纪女子的反叛性、革新性的电影”,旨在影响银幕后男性主导的电影世界,改变屏幕前女性观众的生活。怀着这样的雄心壮志,制片人、新兴导演山户结希从公开招募的约200名候选人中选出了14位三十岁上下的女性导演...
Jun 29, 2019
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