Japanese Cinema

Red Beard, the last Kurosawa-Mifune collaboration, is a film for these times — it’s about healing and hope

Red Beard is a 1965 Japanese film about two doctors. It is really a story about healing: physical healing, emotional healing, social healing.

DIFF 2019: Japanese director Kazuhiro Soda explains his Ten Commandments of documentary filmmaking

Dharamshala International Film Festival 2019 screened Kazuhiro Soda's 2018 documentary Inland Sea, and also had a masterclass by the documentary filmmaker.

First Love movie review: Takashi Miike infuses heart and humour into a potent cocktail of genre thrills

Takashi Miike's 103rd feature, First Love (Hatsukoi), is a delirious cocktail of all his stylistic flourishes.

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father, Like Son and its nature vs nurture examination

Who is a parent? Is parenthood defined by nature or nurture? Like Father, Like Son asks these questions and more

Shoplifters movie review: In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or-winner, the family that steals together, sticks together

Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d'Or winning film, Shoplifters, has released in Indian cinemas nearly 14 months after its world premiere at Cannes 2018.

On Kōbō Abe's 25th death anniversary, a look at his most famous book-to-film adaptation Woman in the Dunes

Woman in the Dunes won the Special Jury Prize at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival, and was nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in the same year.