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YAZAKI

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 11, 2020
‘Sakura’: A family held together by dogged devotion
Hitoshi Yazaki turns Kana Nishino's novel about a family overcoming tragedy with the help of their dog into an amiable but wildly uneven drama.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 3, 2019
'Afternoon Breezes': Hitoshi Yazaki's pioneer of Japanese LGBTQ cinema is revisited
What was Japan's first LGBTQ-themed film? One often-mentioned candidate is Keisuke Kinoshita's 1959 melodrama "Farewell to Spring," though more for the emotional ties between its young male protagonists than anything explicitly erotic. More upfront in its treatment — and more critically acclaimed — is Toshio Matsumoto's "Funeral Parade of Roses" (1969), a free-form reworking of the Oedipus myth set in the countercultural milieu of go-go-era Tokyo and starring pioneering gay multitalent Shinnosuke Ikehata, aka Peter.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 18, 2018
'Still Life of Memories': An erotic drama that perpetuates the male gaze
Hitoshi Yazaki goes slightly overboard with visual innuendo in an otherwise artistic film.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 23, 2016
'A Cappella' conjures up the spirit of revolution in 1960s Japan
When I see Japanese films set in the late 1960s and early '70s, at the height of student protests, I always feel that something is off, while knowing that the "something off" is me.
BUSINESS
Jul 11, 2013
Yazaki, Furukawa hit over EU cartel
Yazaki Corp., the world's biggest maker of automotive wire harnesses, Leoni AG, and Furukawa Electric Co. were fined a total of €141 million ($180 million) in a European Union probe of price-fixing cartels.

Longform

Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on