If you’re a fan of Japanese cinema, you’re bound to have come across Midnight Eye at some point. Every year the editors of the site put together a list of what they consider to be the best films of the year, I tend to use this as a guideline of films to try and watch.
Spanish designer Hexagonal, has created a project of distilling film posters to their fundamental elements. Some of them are absolutely brilliant, unsurprisingly I’m quite a fan of his adaptation of Akira. I leave you with a selection of his work below.
On the three hour train journey back to Sheffield from London, I decided that I’d fill the time with a film. I’ve been sitting on “The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God” for a while now.
Love Exposure is the latest film by Sion Sono, it caught my attention as it has received quite a lot of praise and won prizes at the Berlin Film Festival.
It’s that time of year again when the Japan Foundation get together to bring together a common theme for their annual Film Festival. This years theme looks at ‘women‘, specifically contemporary Japanese cinema by, about, and for women.
