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The cinema of Japan (日本映画, Nihon eiga), also known domestically as hōga (邦画, "domestic cinema"), has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. [4] In 2011, Japan produced 411 feature films ...
The Japanese New Wave (ヌーベルバーグ, Nūberu bāgu, Japanese transliteration of the French term "nouvelle vague") is a term for a group of loosely-connected Japanese films and filmmakers between the late 1950s and part of the 1970s. [1][2] The most prominent representatives include directors Nagisa Ōshima, Yoshishige Yoshida, Masahiro ...
Samurai cinema. Actors playing samurai and ronin at Kyoto 's Eigamura film studio. Chanbara (チャンバラ), also commonly spelled " chambara ", meaning "sword fighting" films, [1] denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films. Chanbara is a sub-category of ...
H. Hard Rain (film) The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things. Hellboy: Sword of Storms. Here Come the Littles. High Noon for Gangsters. The Host (2006 film) The House Where Evil Dwells.
Film portal. v. t. e. The legacy of filmmaking technique left by Akira Kurosawa (1910–1998) for subsequent generations of filmmakers has been diverse and of international influence beyond his native Japan. The legacy of influence has ranged from working methods, influence on style, and selection and adaptation of themes in cinema.
Country. Japan. Language. Japanese. Megane (めがね, "Glasses") is a 2007 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Naoko Ogigami. Set on an unnamed Japanese island, the film tells the story of a vacationing university professor who comes in contact with several eccentric local inhabitants. It serves as a follow-up to Ogigami's 2006 film ...
Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema is a 2010 non-fiction book published by Oxford University Press and edited by Daisuke Miyao. [1][2][3]
The NFAJ in Kyōbashi. The National Film Archive of Japan (国立映画アーカイブ, Kokuritsu Eiga Ākaibu) is an independent administrative institution and one of Japan's seven national museums of art which specializes in preserving and exhibiting the film heritage of Japan. In its previous incarnation, it was the National Film Center ...