Friday, April 6, 2012
410,000 attend Okinawa movie fest, but it's still a money-loser
By MARK SCHILLING
The fourth edition of the Okinawa International Movie Festival, held from March 24 to 31, was a strange beast, combining ...
Friday, April 6, 2012
'Kotoko'
Broken woman sings her way along a downward spiral
By MARK SCHILLING
Tetsuo (Tetsuo: The Iron Man)," the 1989 film that made Shinya Tsukamoto internationally famous, was the cinematic equivalent of a ...
Friday, April 6, 2012
'Oranges and Sunshine'
Oranges can be sour, sunshine pitch black
By KAORI SHOJI
Decency is often much harder to swing than heroism or conventional success. And to keep plugging away at it without ...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Ceramics as a blossoming form of art
By MATTHEW LARKING
In 1981, Etsuko Tashima (b.1959) completed the postgraduate ceramic course of Osaka University of Arts, where she is now professor. ...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
From the ruins rose greatness
By C.B. LIDDELL
Modernity is characterized by a linear concept of time, with the past cast in the role of an ever-diminishing point ...
