Stage Feb 4, 2015

Ninagawa still exploring in eighth take on 'Hamlet'

by Nobuko Tanaka

Yukio Ninagawa's "cherry-blossom" staging of "Macbeth" at the Edinburgh Festival in 1985, with actors in that famously Scottish play sporting kimono rather than kilts, was a sensation due to its radical reimagining of so revered a work. Since then, the 79-year-old director's uniquely visual productions ...

Film May 28, 2014

Godfather of J-horror escapes from genre's grip

by Mark Schilling

Hideo Nakata could be called the godfather of contemporary Japanese horror, but he would probably hate the label. Regardless, this 52-year-old director of such genre classics as "Ring," "Ring 2" and "Honogurai Mizu no Soko kara (Dark Water)" has made J-horror — a combination ...