The Japanese director Kurosawa Akira has been internationally celebrated as one of the most important filmmakers in the history of cinema. Kurosawa’s career started when…
The term ‘modernism’ is commonly used to describe some of the literary and cultural production of the early twentieth century in China, Japan, and Korea,…
Japanese film director Kenji Mizoguchi (1898-1956) was one of Japan's three greatest golden age directors alongside Yasujirō Ozu and Akira Kurosawa. Mizoguchi developed a distinctive…
Yasujirō Ozu has been called the ‘most Japanese’ of all Japanese filmmakers. One of the three giants often said to represent Japanese cinema – along…
Nakahira Kō was a prolific and wide-ranging Japanese film director who, during his relatively short career, directed more than forty feature-length films. He began his…
A Japanese comedian, also known as Enoken, Enomoto initially created popular musical comedies in Tokyo’s downtown entertainment district Asakusa. His comedy style, containing elements from…