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NEW WAVE

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 7, 2021
Jean-Paul Belmondo, magnetic star of the French New Wave, dies at 88
He was compared to Marlon Brando and James Dean for his portrayals of tough, alienated characters, most memorably in Godard's u201cBreathless.u201d
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jun 16, 2018
A new wave of chefs redefining Tokyo
In 'Tokyo New Wave,' Andrea Fazzari has picked out 31 chefs she feels are defining Japan's contemporary restaurant scene.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 7, 2016
'Hitchcock/Truffaut': An auteur meets his (movie) maker
The French got Alfred Hitchcock well before the Americans did. In the 1950s, when the tubby director's Hollywood overlords still regarded him as a producer of light entertainment — the Robert Zemeckis of his day, perhaps — the writers at France's Cahiers du Cinema magazine recognized his deeper genius. A pugnacious young critic named Francois Truffaut ranked Hitchcock alongside Jean Renoir and Ingmar Bergman as prime examples of his "auteur theory," which viewed films not as group endeavors but as conduits for their directors' creative visions.
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Jan 28, 2014
Music scene loses a legend after Plastics' member Masahide Sakuma dies
On Jan. 16, 2014, the musician and producer Masahide Sakuma died after losing his battle with cancer. He was 61.
EDITORIALS
Jan 19, 2013
Rebel filmmaker will be missed
Mr. Nagisa Oshima, the filmmaker who, perhaps more than any other, challenged the conventional morality and sober certainties of Japan, died of pneumonia Tuesday at the age of 80. His films earned respect around the world and broke restraints on what could be shown and told within cinematic art. Japan could use more iconoclasts like him.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 17, 2013
Nagisa Oshima: a leading force in film
Film director Nagisa Oshima, who died in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, of pneumonia on Tuesday at age 80, was a leader of Japan's postwar New Wave movement.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Mar 6, 2011
Tadao Sato: 'Japan's single finest film critic'
Tadao Sato laughed an embarrassed laugh as he recalled that three years ago, in London, he had been referred to as a "legend." Though adding to his discomfort, I had to admit that in my university days I had thought of him in the same way. And I still do.

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