Sentences with phrase «japanese auteur»

Just looking at the Suda 51 name and Juliet Starling's outfit, you know this is going to be another bat - shit crazy game from the Japanese auteur and Grasshopper Manufacture.

If anything, this beloved, prolific Japanese auteur had pulled off an upset as stealthy and light - fingered as his movie, which follows a makeshift family of supermarket thieves dwelling in cramped but loving quarters.

Never one to shy away from a good slaughter, the prolific Japanese auteur dials up the violence even by his high standards, orchestrating not one but two massive battles of attrition that a pit lone wolf swordsman against absurdly large numbers of disposable enemy combatants.

Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Kore - eda's Continued Examination of Polite Familial Discord Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore - eda...

Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore - eda returns with Our Little Sister (aka Umimachi Diary), another entry in his continued exploration of slightly strained familial connections.

Tomorrow evening, just before sunset, Nagisa Oshima's ghost story Empire of Passion (1978) will materialize at the Austin Film Society Cinema in Texas, as the theater continues its monthlong retrospective series devoted to the Japanese auteur.

On the Death by Hanging Blu - ray, screenwriter / critic programmer Tony Rayns hosts a fascinating 30 - minute featurette that puts the film and Japanese auteur Nagisa Oshima into historical perspective.

; MEN AND CHICKEN, Anders Thomas Jensen's dark, twisted and extremely animalistic comedy as black as pitch, but with the sweetest heart, starring Mads Mikkelsen; Fernando León de Aranoa's black comedy A PERFECT DAY, a freewheeling tale centering on two veteran aid workers starring Benico Del Toro and Tim Robbins; the International Premiere of Brendan Cowell's debut RUBEN GUTHRIE about an advertising exec trying to quit the booze, which spikes social observations with dark, wounded humour and the European Premiere of Japanese auteur / icon Takeshi Kitano's latest comedy, RYUZO AND HIS SEVEN HENCHMEN, about a group of elderly, retired Yakuza who reteam to take revenge on a younger rival gang.

Hayao Miyazaki's «The Wind Rises,» the Japanese auteur's alleged final work, which delicately recounts the life of airplane designer Jiro Horikoshi.

Not exact matches

«I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK» (Pathfinder) is an offbeat character piece by South Korean auteur Pak Chan - wook (of «Oldboy» fame) and foreign terrors come from «The Child's Eye» (Lionsgate), a Hong Kong production from The Pang Brothers, and «The Sylvian Experiments» (Lionsgate) from Japanese screenwriter turned director Hiroshi Takahashi.

Another Korean auteur tackled the Japanese colonial period this year, but in this case in a straightforward and direct manner: Kim Jee - woon's resistance action - drama Mil - jeong (The Age of Shadows), a clear Jean - Pierre Melville homage, particularly to the sublime L'armée des ombres (Army of Shadows, 1969).

Daughter of the Nile (1987 — Taiwan) A rediscovered gem in the filmography of Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao - hsien («A City of Sadness,» «The Assassin,» «Three Times,» «Flight of the Red Balloon»), «Daughter of the Nile» is a neon - lit, contemporary drama inspired by the heroine of a Japanese manga series.

Also too good to pass up: Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable, a striking documentary profile of one of the strongest practitioners of urban street photography, directed by Sasha Waters Freyer, Apr. 15; Godard Mon Amour, director Michel Hazanavicius» cool, dramatized portrait of iconic French auteur Jean - Luc Godard (Louis Garrel), as told by Godard's one - time wife, Anne Wiazemsky, Apr. 15; and, from Japanese master Koreeda Hirokazu, The Third Murder, a chambered nautilus of a murder mystery, starring Fukuyama Masaharu and Yakusho Kôji, Apr. 6.

For his 100th film, Japanese cult auteur Takashi Miike celebrates with something special.

Plus, there's the whole thing about how series - creator and auteur Hideo Kojima would not be involved in the creation of such a remake due to the very public (as public as it can be for a Japanese company) spat between him and Konami.