• August 16, 2011
  
  

  'Ugetsu' & 'Kwaidon'

  Aug 18, 2011

  Viz Cinema wraps up its Classic Summer Weekends series in style with two Japanese cinematic landmarks. Equally unforgettable and each ravishingly gorgeous, masterworks Kenji Mizoguchi's 'Ugetsu' and Masaski Kobayashi's 'Kwaidan' screen Saturday and Sunday respectively. More info at newpeopleworld.com.

  
• June 28, 2011
  
  

  Japanese Divas

  Jun 30, 2011

  Pacific Film Archive's series of female-centered classic Japanese cinema continues with screenings of 'The Life of Oharu,' 'Rashomon' and 'Sancho the Bailiff'. Series runs through late August. More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  The Turn-off Sex Cinema of Koji Wakamatsu

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 16, 2009

  Probably no one pushed the artistic carte blanche of "pink" films further—at least into the realm of serious political engagement—than the Japanese auteur.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Seiji Horibuchi on VIZ Cinema

  Michael Fox
  Aug 8, 2009

  Seiji Horibuchi, founder and chairman of VIZ Media, speaks about VIZ Cinema, a built-from-scratch venue located in the New People building in Japantown.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Social Fury 'In the Realm of Oshima' at PFA

  Matt Sussman
  Jun 11, 2009

  Oshima's output grazed on familiar genres, such as the youth-gone-wild and domestic drama, while freely incorporating elements from avant-garde and documentary filmmaking.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster

  Matt Sussman
  Mar 11, 2009

  The retrospective offers fascinating, if not always exemplary, viewing of what could be called a cinema of disaster: characters face the worst, or are living in its aftermath, and like the audience, they are provided with no easy answers.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Travel Guide Through Another Hole in the Head Film Festival

  Dennis Harvey
  Jun 5, 2008

  The Hole Head Festival takes audiences back to terrifying locales and dangerous situations that should be pleasantly familiar to horror aficionados.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  SF-Based Distributor Viz Pictures

  Erika Young
  Jan 9, 2008

  The live-action film division of Viz Media has just marked its second year of bringing a broader range of Japanese film to the growing audience for Japanese pop culture.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  SF-Based Distributor Viz Pictures

  Erika Young
  Jan 9, 2008

  The live-action film division of Viz Media has just marked its second year of bringing a broader range of Japanese film to the growing audience for Japanese pop culture.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Teshigahara at The Castro

  Dennis Harvey
  Nov 23, 2006

  Filmmaking was just one among many creative outlets for Japanese multimedia artist Hiroshi Teshigahara.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Teshigahara at The Castro

  Dennis Harvey
  Nov 23, 2006

  Filmmaking was just one among many creative outlets for Japanese multimedia artist Hiroshi Teshigahara.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  50 Years of Janus Films

  Max Goldberg
  Nov 15, 2006

  It doesn't seem like a stretch to group Janus with those American institutions which have represented a vision of what art is and can be.