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I DISCOVERED Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film Cure (1997) while working on Pariah, a film about Ulrike Meinhof that deals with the “spell” cast by leaders over followers and with the conditions that promote violent solutions to social problems.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Tokyo Sonata, 2008, color film in 35 mm, 119 minutes. Production still. Kenji Sasaki (Kai Inowaki). VENTURING OUTSIDE the paranormal zone that he defined with films such as Cure (1997), Charisma (1999), Pulse (2001), and Doppelganger (2003), Kiyoshi Kurosawa proves himself prescient as ever.
Dec 15, 2020 · Kiyoshi Kurosawa, To the Ends of the Earth, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 120 minutes. Yoko (Atsuko Maeda). Yoko (Atsuko Maeda). Yoko’s isolation is in part her own making: She may be lonely, lost, and diffident, but these qualities coalesce with what might be a touch of xenophobia as she performs a clumsy ballet of avoidance across Uzbekistan.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa, To the Ends of the Earth, 2019, HD video, color, sound, 120 minutes. Yoko (Atsuko Maeda). 7. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) A musical, a travelogue, a feminist awakening—every minute is surprising. J-pop idol Atsuko Maeda is the director’s Anna Karina. As of this writing, there is no US distribution, which is ...
Japan may have been the first test case for the phenomenon of national cinema, as films such as Kurosawa’s Rashomon (1950), Teinosuke Kinugasa’s Gate of Hell (1953), Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu (1953), and Hiroshi Inagaki’s Samurai, the Legend of Musashi Miyamoto (1954) received honorary Academy Awards and plaudits at Venice and Cannes. In the paradoxical logic of national cinemas, Japanese cinema—exotic, unfamiliar, different—became familiar.
In this exhibition, Chuck Holtzman has proved himself at home working on large-scale sculpture while maintaining the sense of finesse and miniaturist craftsmanship that characterized his tiny constructivist manipulations of…
Johnnie To Kei-fung is the most prolific and popular director in Hong Kong cinema, working in various genres and collaborating with Wai Ka-fai. He combines action, humor, and style in his urban crime films, such as PTU, The Mission, and The Heroic Trio.
IN 1911 the Mitsukoshi Department Store in Tokyo—among the oldest in the world, established in 1673 as a kimono fabric shop—sponsored a much anticipated and lucrative competition for an artwork that could be deployed for a publicity campaign. The winning entry, a gorgeous, self-referential oil painting by Hashiguchi Goyō called Kono bijin (This Beauty), depicts an impeccably dressed modern woman perched on an Art Nouveau settee that wouldn’t be out of place in Paris.
Learn about Tadanori Yokoo, a Japanese designer who created posters, books, and architecture that challenged the status quo and the role of art in society. Explore his collaborations with poet Shu¯ji Terayama and his influence on the global counterculture movement.
And though his living sculptures often resemble apocalyptic filmic fantasies à la Blade Runner or Kurosawa’s Dreams, Hooper Schneider insists that his works optimistically point to the possibilities, however tentative, that still linger in the future. In this way, they function as propositions rather than as nihilistic commentary.
