Yuzo Kawashima is the missing link between the collective style of Japanese cinema in the first half, and the second halves of the twentieth century. His movies, predominantly based on melodrama, exude a sense of classic Japanese cinema as we know it to be. However, they are also modern in their outlooks, more so than the works of the other major directors of his era. “Hungry Soul, Part II” is the sequel of his “Hungry Soul,” released in the same year.
Reiko Shiba still tolerates continuous abuse from her husband, Naokichi Shiba. However, a flicker of hope in her life is the value shown to her by a business rival of her husband, Retsuto Tachibana. Reiko falls for Tachibana and dreams of a happy life, free from the constant degradation she is subjected to by her husband, who treats her like a maid rather than his wife.
Reiko Shiba still tolerates continuous abuse from her husband, Naokichi Shiba. However, a flicker of hope in her life is the value shown to her by a business rival of her husband, Retsuto Tachibana. Reiko falls for Tachibana and dreams of a happy life, free from the constant degradation she is subjected to by her husband, who treats her like a maid rather than his wife.
- 2/14/2021
- by Raktim Nandi
- AsianMoviePulse
Having thought to be abandoned by her mother as a child, a schoolgirl learns that her absent parent was a renown exorcist who was left to keep the family safe. She learns this information through one of her mother’s disciples, a delinquent looking woman who whisks her away from her friend. At the bequest of the woman, the schoolgirl decides to take up the mantle of exorcist in order to avenge the mother she thought had left her behind.
“My First Exorcism” is Screening at Jffh 2020 Online-Festival
“My First Exorcism”, despite the alluding to horror in the title, is a brief comedic romp that follows a young girls’ first foray into exorcism. The concept is as simple as it sounds, with little depth of narrative beyond highlighting her first attempt at quelling a demon. Thankfully, the approach is playful in nature and fires of gags and jokes at a...
“My First Exorcism” is Screening at Jffh 2020 Online-Festival
“My First Exorcism”, despite the alluding to horror in the title, is a brief comedic romp that follows a young girls’ first foray into exorcism. The concept is as simple as it sounds, with little depth of narrative beyond highlighting her first attempt at quelling a demon. Thankfully, the approach is playful in nature and fires of gags and jokes at a...
- 8/27/2020
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Kimihiko Nakamura started his career as an actor mostly in V-cinema productions under the alias Salmon Sakeyama. His credits include 52 movies with titles such as “Girl Hell 1999”, “Blood Sisters” and “All Night Long: Initial O”. After winning an award for his script at the Hakodate Film Festival, he switched to directing using his actual name this time.
On the occasion of “Smoking Aliens” screening at Japan Filmfest Hamburg, we speak with him about the crazy story of the film, smoking, and shooting films in Japan.
Can you introduce to our readers how you became a director and screenwriter?
With my experience as staff and as actor in various films and TV shows, I made my own plans and scripts. Because those were approved, I became film director.
Where did you get the idea for creating such a crazy narrative as Smoking Aliens?
In science fiction movies, is it often the...
On the occasion of “Smoking Aliens” screening at Japan Filmfest Hamburg, we speak with him about the crazy story of the film, smoking, and shooting films in Japan.
Can you introduce to our readers how you became a director and screenwriter?
With my experience as staff and as actor in various films and TV shows, I made my own plans and scripts. Because those were approved, I became film director.
Where did you get the idea for creating such a crazy narrative as Smoking Aliens?
In science fiction movies, is it often the...
- 7/8/2019
- by Pieter-Jan Van Haecke
- AsianMoviePulse
When Kimihiko Nakamura’s “Smoking Aliens” world premiered at the Yubari International Film Festival in 2018, this low-budget science-fiction horror panic film became, without winning any prizes, one of the highlights of the festival. Now, with its European premiere at this year’s Jffh, we have a chance to check it out for ourselves.
“Smoking Aliens” is screening at Japan Filmfest Hamburg:
When Kaori Hanazawa (Riri Koda), a widow and passionate smoker, tries to smoke in the kitchen, a colleague quickly intervenes and forbids her to smoke inside. After being pushed outside, Hanazawa, while smoking, encounters another person on her path, who underlines that this is a non-smoking area. Slightly annoyed, she decides to smoke outside the premises of the company. Hanazawa suddenly perceives falling stars in the sky, not knowing these small meteors are home of dangerous kind of parasitic extra-terrestrials.
As a narrative, “Smoking Aliens” provides an exaggerated and,...
“Smoking Aliens” is screening at Japan Filmfest Hamburg:
When Kaori Hanazawa (Riri Koda), a widow and passionate smoker, tries to smoke in the kitchen, a colleague quickly intervenes and forbids her to smoke inside. After being pushed outside, Hanazawa, while smoking, encounters another person on her path, who underlines that this is a non-smoking area. Slightly annoyed, she decides to smoke outside the premises of the company. Hanazawa suddenly perceives falling stars in the sky, not knowing these small meteors are home of dangerous kind of parasitic extra-terrestrials.
As a narrative, “Smoking Aliens” provides an exaggerated and,...
- 5/25/2019
- by Pieter-Jan Van Haecke
- AsianMoviePulse
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