Lightness and Solidity: On Kiyoshi Kurosawa We constantly encounter the weightless in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s cinema: newspapers fluttering across the living room at the opening of Tokyo Sonata; Jun Fubuki standing alone against a wall, brushed by a breeze, at the beginning of Seance; the philosophical zombies coated in smooth silver paint inhabiting a realm of consciousness in Real; or the spectral media ghosts suspended in midair, inching toward the living, in Pulse. Conversely,

Cold War 1994 | This is not a police and gangster film, but a game of power The Poster of Cold War To be honest, judging solely from its promotional materials, Cold War 1994 can easily be mistaken for a conventional Hong Kong police and gangster film. I went into it wondering whether Hong Kong could still deliver innovative crime thriller works, only to find that what Cold War 1994 truly explores goes far beyond the simple premise of police arresting criminals—it delves deep

Improvisation - Meticulousness - About Nobuhiro Suwa *Exclusive Interview with a Film Star As a figure within the broadly defined "Rikkyo New Wave"—a movement originating at Rikkyo University in Japan in the early 1970s, which gained formal recognition and critical attention in Japan’s film industry throughout the 1980s and 1990s—Nobuhiro Suwa has long stood out as a distinctive auteur who has rarely received in-depth critical scrutiny. Unlike Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Shinji Aoyama