Not exact matches
And in the most interesting thread of the
film (which also happens to be the farthest removed from all of the chaos), a deaf - mute
Japanese girl (Rinko Kikuchi) wrestles with the adversity of fitting into an unforgiving society, while her father (Koji Yakusho) continues to
deal with the recent suicide of his wife.
Anomalisa What kind of filmmaker are we
dealing with when Charlie Kaufman's simplest, most normal
film is an animated flick involving stop - motion cunnilingus, a
Japanese sex robot, a trippy dream sequence with a golf cart and an entire world populated by enumerable Tom Noonans?
While the first two chapters of section one
dealt with the field of
Japanese cinema as one composed around actual
films, the other two chapters in this section suggest that the field is one that analyses discourses around cinema culture at large.
Rather than
dealing with a girl from the slums of Victorian England, Park's
film transports the characters to Korea and Japan during the 1930s when
Japanese occupy the director's home country.
-- «Maborosi» (1995):
Japanese director Kore - eda Hirokazu's
film about a woman
dealing with her husband's suicide is a small
film with large impact.
Indeed, if the
film gave us nothing other than a stellar introduction to the astonishing Debussy reworkings of
Japanese electronica composer Isao Tomita (you better believe he is all up in my Spotify right this second), that would have been a great
deal.
The huge exhibition moves from a diptych of Hans Namuth's
film of Jackson Pollock at work, playing on a monitor next to Pollock's Number 1 (1949), through - among so many other things -
Japanese Gutai painting performances from the»50s; photo - documentation of Valie Export's Genital Panic (1969), in which Export, in crotchless jeans and packing an Uzi, roamed the aisles of a porn cinema challenging viewers to
deal with the real thing (there's that «real» thing again); relics of Hermann Nitsch's bloody ritual drama, Asolo Raum (1971), to the most recent works, set pieces by Mike Kelley and Paul McCarthy.