While we’re on the topic of anime,Grave Of The Fireflies, directed by Isao Takahata is a must view classic war drama anime. Considered by critics as one of the best films to come out of Japanese cinema, this film is the story of a young boy and his little sister’s struggle for su...
Simply head over to theirofficial Japanese movies pagewhere you’ll find a variety of movies and TV shows in different genres. For even more options outside of Netflix, check out Wikipedia’scomprehensive list of Japanese filmsin 50 differentcategories, or thislistof Japanese movies ranked bylan...
This eerie and strange musical horror-comedy centers around the Katakuri family. They open an inn up in the mountains. But as the guests come in, they meet their sudden and untimely demise. Fearing bad publicity, the family decides to bury the bodies of their deceased guests themselves. But...
“The Literature of Japanese American Incarceration: Resistance at Jerome,” livestreamed presentation KING-TV “New Day Northwest,”May 15, 2024 “The voices of people unjustly imprisoned during World War II are collected in new book,” television interview with Amity Addrisi...
Photograph: Brandon Films Director: Kon IchikawaA consummate technical filmmaker, Kon Ichikawa gained recognition in the West with a pair of powerful anti-war films in the late ’50s. Fires on the Plain offers a shocking examination of the horrors of World War II. The Oscar-nominated The Burme...
With a war going on two poor men try to profit from it, and when they find two people hiding in a fortress (a man and a woman) they have no idea they are secretly a princess and a general in disguise. They agree to help them for gold and it’s rather funny to see the princess...
Current paper examines the views on war and war consequences in medieval Japan. The reference text is How starving people drowned (Kinin mi [wo] nageru koto), the 4th section of the 33rd scroll of the samurai tales Records of Great Peace (Taihei ki), which was completed in the second ...
With the “fog of war” being such a critical factor in premodern times, a freelance Shinobi could mean the difference between victory and defeat. There are even legends of Ninja with incredible powers, able to bend shadows, walk on walls, and use magical abilities to defeat their foes –...
offering a cathartic way to explore previously taboo themes of violence, radicalized youth culture, and societal struggles, often in the wake of a post-war, American-occupied Japan. At the same time, there began a shift away from big-budget studio films, allowing more independent creators to ...
Video livestream: Three short films on the Heart Mountain resisters Mystery writers honor John Okada at Left Coast Crime convention Now online: the Fair Play Committee files from the National Archives Audiobook and table of contents for Penguin anthology Five Events for the 2024 Day of Remem...