Kazuo Kitamura

  • Shôhei Imamura – Kuroi Ame AKA Black Rain (1989)

    Arthouse1981-1990Hiroshima at 75JapanShohei ImamuraWar

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    A somber, visually distilled, and deeply affecting portrait of the human toll and uncalculated tragedy of nuclear holocaust. In contrast to Shohei Imamura’s characteristically unrefined, primitivistic, and subversively bawdy cinema, the film is shot in high contrast black and white, creating a spare and tonally muted chronicle of dignity, survival, community, and human resilience. Through recurring literal and figurative images of regression, Imamura conveys a dual meaning, not only in the community’s noble attempt to rebuild Hiroshima and return to a semblance of normal life after the annihilating bombing but also in their collective gradual and systematic erasure from Japanese society through long-term effects of radiation sickness, infertility, cultural (and geographic) isolation, and social stigmatization.Read More »

  • Kô Nakahira – Ryojin nikki AKA Hunter’s Diary (1964)

    Kô Nakahira1961-1970DramaJapan

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    A complex and far from straight-forward Nakahira film about a womanizer suspected to be a serial killer.Read More »

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