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Turner Classic Movies has picked up the exclusive North American television rights to the forthcoming documentary The Ozu Diaries, from Oscar-nominated filmmaker Daniel Raim. An intimate exploration of the life and legacy of Japanese cinematic master Yasujiro Ozu, the film will premiere on the festival circuit this year, followed by a theatrical release in 2025.
Produced with the support of the Ozu estate and Shochiku, the historic Japanese studio behind the director’s greatest works, The Ozu Diaries is a cinema history documentary that portrays the iconic filmmaker through his diaries, personal letters and interviews, plus rare archival footage, movie clips and new insights from some of his closest collaborators.
The project was initiated in 2023 to mark the 120th anniversary of Ozu’s birth. The movie will trace his journey from a rebellious young painter and cinephile in 1920s Japan to the globally renowned creator of classics like I Was Born,...
Produced with the support of the Ozu estate and Shochiku, the historic Japanese studio behind the director’s greatest works, The Ozu Diaries is a cinema history documentary that portrays the iconic filmmaker through his diaries, personal letters and interviews, plus rare archival footage, movie clips and new insights from some of his closest collaborators.
The project was initiated in 2023 to mark the 120th anniversary of Ozu’s birth. The movie will trace his journey from a rebellious young painter and cinephile in 1920s Japan to the globally renowned creator of classics like I Was Born,...
- 1/22/2024
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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“Your Lovely Smile” is a rather weird film. Despite the fact that is Lim Kah-wai's work, the style essentially follows Hirobumi Watanabe's low-budget, self-starring, self-deprecating, ironic and realistic approach to cinema, with the former's hand mostly showing in the fact that the movie is in color and follows a road-film path, although the last part also appears occasionally in the latter's titles.
“Your Lovely Smile” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
Watanabe actually stars as himself here, playing a filmmaker who, despite having won a number of awards from festivals in Japan, finds himself once more facing the harsh realities of independent filmmaking, which seem to have grown even worse after the pandemic. As the story begins, he is stranded in his hometown doing odd jobs to make a living and pass the time essentially, occasionally meeting people from the industry with similar troubles. Eventually an...
“Your Lovely Smile” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival
Watanabe actually stars as himself here, playing a filmmaker who, despite having won a number of awards from festivals in Japan, finds himself once more facing the harsh realities of independent filmmaking, which seem to have grown even worse after the pandemic. As the story begins, he is stranded in his hometown doing odd jobs to make a living and pass the time essentially, occasionally meeting people from the industry with similar troubles. Eventually an...
- 4/29/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Why is all this happening?”
“Cause you stay cool and don’t say anything.”
In an interview from 2007 when he was invited to the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film Japanese, director Hiroyuki Sanako, better known as Sabu, talked about his approach to both filmmaking and writing. As reality is based on logic and rules agreed upon by society, changing the perspective often reveals the rules to be rather arbitrary. Coming up with the unusual situations, his characters, often imprisoned by reality and the conventions it is defined by, are therefore equal to show the fragility of everyday life and its rules.
“Mr Long” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
In the past, the concept has taken a rather absurd turn for his characters, often played by actor Tsutsumi Shin’ichi. Whether it is the postman finding rather gruesome items in the mail or the salary man waking...
“Cause you stay cool and don’t say anything.”
In an interview from 2007 when he was invited to the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film Japanese, director Hiroyuki Sanako, better known as Sabu, talked about his approach to both filmmaking and writing. As reality is based on logic and rules agreed upon by society, changing the perspective often reveals the rules to be rather arbitrary. Coming up with the unusual situations, his characters, often imprisoned by reality and the conventions it is defined by, are therefore equal to show the fragility of everyday life and its rules.
“Mr Long” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
In the past, the concept has taken a rather absurd turn for his characters, often played by actor Tsutsumi Shin’ichi. Whether it is the postman finding rather gruesome items in the mail or the salary man waking...
- 11/15/2019
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
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