The restoration and release of Shinji Somai's Love Hotel is no small occasion, and dovetails nicely with this show's ambition to speak with people outside the ...
Does the English language contain six sweeter words than "A Pinku Classic from Shinji Somai"? The last couple of years have seen his work restored and properly...
A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) esteems maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Sômai, but it’s the nature of such fandom tha...
One of the great batches of recent restorations are those from Shinji Somai, as detailed by Jaime Grijalba in our feature last year. The latest to get a wider ...
Most lists of the greatest long takes don't deviate: Goodfellas, Russian Ark, Touch of Evil, Rope--you know the drill. In a perfect world those rankings face a...
From the late '50s and into the 1970s the Japanese New Wave exhibited an incredible creative outburst that defined and shaped what we consider contemporary Jap...
A certain type of cinephile weeb (hello) holds maybe no post-New Wave Japanese director more highly than Shinji Somai, but it's the nature of such fandom that ...
