Wife of a Spy
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's first period piece, set in 1940s Japan, features a riveting, tour-de-force performance by Yu Aoi.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's first period piece, set in 1940s Japan, features a riveting, tour-de-force performance by Yu Aoi.
A film which transforms extremely familiar genre elements into an infectiously comedic movie full of vividly detailed portraits.
Prison life from the perspective of corrections officers tasked with enforcing the rules and carrying out punishments.
This essential festival celebrated the richness and diversity to be found in current Japanese filmmaking and offered an especially eclectic and challenging selection.
The city’s premier showcase of the latest and greatest from international film festivals celebrates its 15th anniversary by continuing what it does best: highlighting the richness to be found in Asian cinema.
In this intensely moving movie, long, lovingly shot sequences of the titular food fits perfectly in the genre of culinary-based films in which food has metaphorical, cultural, and even spiritual significance.
The festival Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center from December 2-8, is celebrating its 10th edition, and is using this milestone as an occasion to look back on the Romanian New Wave, which, of course by now, is not so new.
Besides its usual focus on recent films—which this […]
