Tag: Nagisa Oshima

Getting on: Takeshi Kitano’s Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen

I have finally got around to watching Takeshi Kitano’s latest film, Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen (2015), which was released last year, but, like a number of his recent works, has not been as widely distributed as the films such as Sonatine (1993) and Hana-bi (1997) that established him in the 1990s as an internationally…

February 1, 2016
A rogue performer: Bowie on film

Turning on the radio on Monday morning and hearing about David Bowie’s death was probably the first time I have been truly upset to hear about the death of a public figure. I have been listening to his music since I bought a cassette of Let’s Dance when I was 13, and his importance to me and to others was that…

January 15, 2016

Getting on: Takeshi Kitano’s Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen