I have covered the Taiyo-zoku, Mikio Naruse, and Yuzo Kawashima, but I cannot leave out Yasujiro Ozu from this era. This is ...

Benedict is a college graduate with a degree in Film and Screen Media and a future unemployed Letterboxd user. He got into movies through a childhood love of blockbusters and comic book movies, and ...

In fact, Early Spring is a very close cousin to Naruse's Repast (Meshi, 1951) in that it takes on the life of a married couple and the tribulations that it encounters as marriage transforms into ...

AN ACTOR PREPARES Nakamura Ganjirô plays the role of a kabuki master in Ozu Yasujirô’s 1956 film, ‘Floating Weeds.’ (Photo courtesy of Janus Films) Why is the late Ozu Yasujirô idolized by moviemakers ...

One of my favorite anecdotes about the joys-- and availability-- of watching a range of films from a range of eras involves certain older titles that, not all that long ago, only could be seen at ...

Adam Grinwald is a Feature Writer at Collider with a lifelong passion for cinema, literature, music, and culture. From the early days of memorizing practically every single line of dialogue off a ...