- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 29 June 2015
Reflections in a Midnight Eye
MIDNIGHT EYE RETIRES. After 15 years of making the world's go-to source for info on Japanese cinema in English, we're calling it a day.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 9 March 2015
Seventh Code
- Year
- 2014
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's one-hour, shot-in-Russia promo for a J-pop idol reveals hidden cinematic depths.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 9 March 2015
The Sun’s Burial
- Year
- 1960
Revisiting Nagisa Oshima's early feature about life in the underbelly of post-war Osaka.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 5 September 2014
Over Your Dead Body
- Year
- 2014
Miike's riff on The Ghost Story of Yotsuya evokes both the supernatural and the resolutely down-to-earth
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 5 September 2014
The Garden of Words
- Year
- 2013
Makoto Shinkai's latest animated mini-feature explores everyday fleeting moments of love, beauty, and heartbreak.
- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 3 February 2015
Midnight Eye’s Best (and Worst) of 2014
What was up in Japanese film in 2014? Ask the makers of Midnight Eye.
- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 15 December 2014
The Realism of Fantasy: A Tribute to Fujio Morita
Tracing the lineage of one of Japan's greatest cinematographers, from Daimajin to Hitokiri and beyond.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 21 December 2013
Gun and Sword: An Encyclopedia of Japanese Gangster Films 1955-1980
At 820 pages, Chris D's long-in-the-making yakuza movie tome has been worth the wait.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 3 September 2012
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
Steven T. Brown's inspiring and long-overdue exploration of a genre that remains relevant.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 13 May 2011
Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji
Examining Steven C. Ridgely's new study of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in Japanese film and art.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 14 March 2011
A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Aaron Gerow clarifies the many mysteries and misconceptions surrounding Teinosuke Kinugasa's silent classic.
