The Damned Days of August: 6th and 9th
Today is August 6, 73 years after the first use of a nuclear explosion in a war in human …
Tag Archives: Movies:Japan
Black Rain, Two Movies — Hiroshima After the Bomb
The enormous, instantaneous destructive power of atomic weapons is the first, and sometimes the only, image that comes to mind …
Japan, After the War, Two Widows, Two Movies
In nineteen forty-seven, a year and a half after the end of WWII, Japanese film makers were still facing war-time shortages, …
More Post-War Movies: Three from Japan
It is of continuing interest to me how people in all their cultural wrappings respond to portrayals of themselves as …
Japan’s WW II Cinema: Bucking Up the Home Front
Watching Japanese films from the 1940s and 50s is difficult for many. No big sword fights,no clothing shed in intimate love affairs. …
The Human Condition: What Is A Man to Do? Japan in Defeat
Masaki Kobayashi’s war time epic, The Human Condition, at 9 hours and 45 minutes, in black and white, with subtitles …
Hula Girls: Coal Miners’ Daughters in Japan — a Movie
Around our house there are two streams of movie selections: dark, meaningful films, preferably by “auteurs,” about people overcoming terrible …
The Road — Taken
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, translated into film, opened in scattered theaters this week. In the Bay Area only two houses …
The Burmese Harp: Fires on the Plain: Two Films
When Kon Ichikawa‘s name is mentioned, ears don’t perk up in recognition. Even if “film maker” is added as …