Exclusive Trailer for Shinji Somai’s P.P. Rider Restores a Lost Japanese Stunner
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...
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The Way of Fire and Water: On the Eclectic Brilliance of Shinji Somai
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...
One of Japan’s Greatest Directors Gets Restored In Trailer for Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai
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 ...