Ran
Akira Kurosawa once again takes Shakespeare from The Globe to the other side of the globe in this adaptation of King Lear. As compared to Throne of Blood, Ran is […]
Tag Archives: Japan
Samurai Marathon
When an American naval officer (Danny Huston) lands on the shores of Feudal Japan, a daimyo (Hiroki Hasegawa) sends his army on a 36-mile footrace to test their mettle that […]
Arrietty
Studio Ghibli shrinks to Studio Gimli in this 2010 Borrowers adaptation. Ghibli is all about detail, making Mary Norton’s diminutive classic the perfect playground for the anime giant’s miniaturised magic. […]
Penguin Highway
From the nation that gave us Pingu in the City comes this 2018 anime about a precocious fourth-grader (Kana Kita) investigating a sudden influx of penguins. Waddle they think up […]
Onibaba
Onibaba is another Asian film about staring into the abyss, literally in the case of two women living in a hut next to a pit. This Japanese classic hops across […]
Porco Rosso
A porcine fighter pilot eludes Italian fascist swine in Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso. Hayao Miyazaki’s ode to old Hollywood follows the Bogartian bounty hunter through a series of hog nights […]
Tokyo Story
An elderly couple (Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama) make their first trip to Tokyo to visit their children. First the children’s lives are shown from the perspective of the parents, […]
Weathering With You
A teenage boy (Kotaro Daigo) runs away to Tokyo and meets a girl who can control the weather (Nana Mori), but soon finds that Cloudbusting is best left to Kate […]
Mirai
My Neighbour Totoro meets Addams Family Values in this Japanese tale of a young boy’s jealousy towards his new baby sister, until the family dog sees fit to intervene in […]
Still Walking
This intimate drama follows three generations of the Yokoyama family who get together to remember the life of oldest son Junpei who died several years earlier. Through this set-up it […]
