“Down in the valley it is already spring Clouds of cherry blossoms; But here, the sluggish eye, the taste of mackerel— The blossoms are melancholy And the flavor of sake

It is the bonds that define Koreeda’s cinema, be they family relationships, emotional conjunctions, connections with the past.In his films there is always something missing, a void waiting to be

At the time when Paul Schrader wrote Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer, almost fifty years ago, he told himself that he never wanted to make that kind of