Notable Director Review Archive

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Notable Director Review Archive

As I continue to review films I keep running into the same directors and I have come to admire them and dedicate seasons to them. I know that I will continue to watch films from them. Therefore it might be sensible to keep track of my reviews by prominent directors. I am big on auteur theory and whenever I find a film I like I always want to know what else a director has done. Thus, expect this page to showcase the oeuvre of the likes of Shinya Tsukamoto, Kim Ji-Won, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Sion Sono and others.

I know that the name order varies – I will use the Korean way of laying out a name for Korean directors while I will use the western way of laying out a name for Japanese directors but this is how I speak about filmmakers in real life.

There are big spaces in some places and the pictures are all weird shapes and sizes but that is because I have yet to review a lot of films and when I do, the pictures will alter. I will keep updating this page much like my film review archive so check back from time to time if you want to see what I thought about a particular title.

Japan

Miwa NishikawaMiwa Nishikawa Hebi Ichigo Direction

Dreams for Sale

Dear Doctor

The Long Excuse

Sway

Wild Berries

Noriko Yuasa    

Girl, Wavering

Looking for my lost Sunflowers

Ordinary Everyday

Coming Back Sunny

Coming Back Sunny Interview

 

Mipo O    

Being Good

The Light Shines Only There

Quirky Guys and Gals

 

 

 

Gakuryu IshiiGakuryu Ishii

Angel Dust

Bitter Honey

Isn’t Anyone Alive?

That’s It

Kiyoshi KurosawaKiyoshi Kurosawa Loft

Before We Vanish

Bright Future

Charisma

Creepy

Cure: The Power of Suggestion

Daguerreotype

Eyes of the Spider

Guard From Underground, The

License to Live

Loft

Penance

Pulse

Real

Retribution

Séance

Serpent’s Path

Seventh Code

Sweet Home

Tokyo Sonata

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Season and Biography

Sion SonoSono Sion

Antiporno

Cold Fish

Exte: Hair Extensions

The Forest of Love

Himizu

The Land of Hope

Love & Peace

Love Exposure

Noriko’s Dinner Table

Sion Sono, The

Strange Circus

Suicide Circle

Tag

The Virgin Psychics

Whispering Star, The

Why Don’t You Play in Hell?

Sion Sono Season 1

Sion Sono Season 2

Shinya Tsukamoto           Shinya Tsukamoto

Bullet Ballet

Fires on the Plain

Gemini

Kotoko

Nightmare Detective

A Snake of June

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

Tetsuo: Body Hammer

Tokyo Fist

Vital

Shinya Tsukamoto Season

 

Takashi Miike           Miike Takashi

13 Assassins

As the Gods Will

Audition

For Love’s Sake

Ninja Kids!!!

One Missed Call

Takashi Shimizu           Takashi Shimizu, director of Ju-On

Blonde Kwaidan

Ju-On: The Curse

Ju-On: The Curse 2

Yuya Ishii      

The Great Passage                   Yuya Ishii

Mitsuko Delivers

Sawako Decides

The Tokyo Night Sky is Always the Densest Shade of Blue

Koji Fukada                Koji Fukada Film Director

Human Comedy Tokyo

Hospitalite

Sayonara

Au revoir l’ete

Harmonium

Inabe

Yalta Conference Online

East of Jefferson

The Real Thing (TV Drama)

Naomi Kawase

Naomi Kawase Director Image
Naomi Kawase, Director

Vision

Radiance

Sweet Bean

 

 

Takeshi Kitano    Takeshi Kitano The Kids Return

Kikujiro

Dolls

Hanabi

Getting Any?

 

Hirokazu Kore-eda   

Hirokazu Koreeda Cannes 2018 Shoplifters Palme d'or
(Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP)

Shoplifters

The Third Murder

Still Walking

Like Father, Like Son

Kiseki

Our Little Sister

After the Storm

Distance

Yuzo KawashimaYuzo Kawashima

Graceful Brute

Room For Let

The Temple of Wild Geese

Korea

Kim Jee-Woon           Kim Jee-Woon

A Bittersweet Life

I Saw the Devil

The Quiet Family

Kim Ki-Duk                      

Arirang

Park Chan-Wook                     Park Chan-Wook

Thirst

Everywhere Else

Werner Herzog                                                                                Herzog in Cave of Forgotten Dreams

The Bad Lieutenant Port of Call: New Orleans

The Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D

Nosferatu the Vampyre

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