Setsuko hara tribute horse

  • Hara Setsuko was the most iconic actress in the history of Japanese Cinema, establishing herself as a powerful symbol of Japanese womanhood.
  • Nakadai plays Tadao, a retired fisherman living with his granddaughter Haru (Eri Tokunaga) in an isolated Hokkaido fishing village.
  • Setsuko Hara is the actor who was unforgettable in key films by Yasujiro Ozu, as well as work by Mikio Naruse and Akira Kurosawa in a career lasting over 30.

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    'Haru tono tabi (Travels with Haru)'

    Masahiro Kobayashi is a unique figure in the Japanese film business. His knotty, idiosyncratic films, starting with the 1996 film "Closing Time," have never made much at the box office in Japan, though they have become favorites of foreign festival programmers. Four have screened at Cannes, including "Bashing" (2005), a grim drama of alienation and exclusion that was selected for the competition.

    That's four more invitations than most Japanese directors — including those higher up on the local critical pecking order — get in a lifetime, stirring up insinuations that Kobayashi, whose long association with France includes study of the language, must have an "in."

    Meanwhile, many foreign Asian cinephiles — from fans of zany pop entertainment to appreciators of quiet Ozu-esque art films — don't quite know what to make of Kobayashi's oeuvre, which often takes its cues from the more uncompromising European and Asian auteurs and often features blunt,

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    Category: Summer Under the Stars

    Some Reflection:

    The power of Gloria Grahame as a performer is undeniable. Wether you remember her from her brilliant noir work, her performances in melodramas like The Bad and The Beautiful, or even those out of left field turns like her musical work in Oklahoma, she’s quirky, unique and unmistakably herself.

    Few actress have carved out a screen persona for themselves quite as Grahame managed. She brought women to the screen who were colorful, complex and fascinating to watch. She’s never defined purely by her beauty and I’m not afraid to say, even if I don’t love a movie, I always love Gloria Grahame in it.

    A Career in Review:

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    If You Can Only Watch One:

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    Trailer: Wonderland bygd Kim Tae-yong

    Eleven years since “You Are More Than Beautiful”, and even längre his best work so far with “Late Autumn”, director Kim Tae-yongis finally back with “Wonderland”, a project that has been in development since 2019.

    Synopsis

    Wonderlandis a film call service, that helps users reunite with deceased people using artificial intelligence. These are stories of people using the service. In a virtual world called ‘Wonderland', a place where people can reunite with a person they may not meet igen by simulating them through A.I, a woman in her 20s requests to meet his lover who is in a coma, and a woman in her 40s requests to meet her husband who passed away.

    Once again starring his wife Tang Wei, the star-studded cast of “Wonderland” also includes names such as Bae Suzy, Park Bo-gum, Jung Yu-miand Choi Woo-sik. It fryst vatten rumoured that Gong Yoowill also...

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