Interview with Kim Su-jin and Sahel Rosa: We just Want to Coexist With You, Why Don’t You Accept Us?
Kim Sujin (born 1954) and his Shinjuku Ryōzanpaku Theatre Company attest to the variety of styles employed in recent works by resident Korean artists in Japanese literature and theatre. The appearance of his plays and films is connected to the changing identities of resident Koreans, especially since the 1980s. Kim makes use of political theatre performances of the earlier period to magnify and to remake into art the experiences of resident Koreans in Japan. As such, his works mobilize the legacy of his antecedents in Japanese theatre as well as the past experiences of resident Koreans. Instead of enacting an essential Korean ethnicity or culture onstage or through films, Kim inclines toward denoting migration, hybridity and being situated as betwixt and between. By doing so, his works depict the distinct niche occupied by resident Koreans in Japan, which distinguishes them from both the Koreans on the mainland and the Japanese. In cinema,...
- 9/25/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Shinjuku Ryozanpaku Theatre Company is a Tokyo-based ensemble renowned throughout Japan and internationally for its tent-theatre performances, large-scale, elaborate mise-en-scene, acute comedy and unique stylistic brush-strokes. The company was established in 1987 and is led by charismatic director and actor, Kim Su-jin. Their latest work is based on the homonymous play by Jean-Paul Sartre, and despite the fact that the cast is composed of Japanese actors plus Sahel Rosa who is of Iranian descent, takes place in the South of the United States during the 40s.
“The Respectful Prostitute” is screening at InlanDimensions
The play begins with the intrusion of a “foreigner” in Lizzie’s house, who is soon revealed to have been part of an incident involving two of them saving her from the harassment of four “locals”, with one of the four, Thomas, killing the other “foreigner”, and eventually being arrested. The other three, however, start spreading rumors that...
“The Respectful Prostitute” is screening at InlanDimensions
The play begins with the intrusion of a “foreigner” in Lizzie’s house, who is soon revealed to have been part of an incident involving two of them saving her from the harassment of four “locals”, with one of the four, Thomas, killing the other “foreigner”, and eventually being arrested. The other three, however, start spreading rumors that...
- 9/24/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
InlanDimensions International Arts Festival has established itself as Central Europe’s largest multidisciplinary festival that rejects a differentiation between Europe and Asia, building bridges between different countries and cultures. Presenting a kaleidoscope of arts ranging from theatre, performance, dance and cinema to music, literature and visual arts, it brings together artists and audiences from all over the world, launching co-productions and facilitating negotiations between venues and producers through professional language services.
The brainchild of the Bridges Foundation organized in partnership with the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre, and the Jan Kochanowski Powszechny Theatre in Radom, InlanDimensions International Arts Festival 2022 showcases a range of theatre productions, films, musical concerts, workshops and meetings as it did before, coming back in the form of fully live events.
The special guest list this year includes: singer and actress Akatsuki Nanami, vocalist of the band Kaguramusō; experimental art pioneer and one of...
The brainchild of the Bridges Foundation organized in partnership with the Grotowski Institute in Wrocław, the Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre, and the Jan Kochanowski Powszechny Theatre in Radom, InlanDimensions International Arts Festival 2022 showcases a range of theatre productions, films, musical concerts, workshops and meetings as it did before, coming back in the form of fully live events.
The special guest list this year includes: singer and actress Akatsuki Nanami, vocalist of the band Kaguramusō; experimental art pioneer and one of...
- 8/27/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
"I pray for peaceful days in your life." Peccadillo Pictures in the UK has debuted a new trailer for the UK release of a Japanese indie film titled West North West, from filmmaker Takuro Nakamura. This one has taken years to be released, after originally premiered in 2015 at the Busan Film Festival. It already opened in Japan in 2018 and is finally out on VOD to watch in the UK (but still doesn't have a US distributor). Kei (Hanae Kan) works at a cocktail bar, while Ai (Yûka Yamauchi) is a model. Fearing she'll be ostracized by society, Kei chooses not to admit her sexual orientation to anyone, and becomes distressed and lonely. One day, Kei gets close to Naima (Sahel Rosa), an Iranian student studying in Japan. Ai quickly becomes jealous of them and their budding relationship. All three are embarrassed & insecure but eventually they begin to share emotions. Set in modern day Japan,...
- 11/9/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
All eponymous women in Nobuteru Uchida’s fifth feature film are broken. They are not just broken, they are either devastated, oppressed, depressed, hysterical or monstrous. They are gathered under the collective noun “women”, defined and described by a man.
There is a lot of pathos to deal with in this Moscow International Film Festival main competition drama: theft and betrayal, psychological terror, a grueling parent, suicide, arrest, bullying, the pouring rain – it’s all there, set against the backdrop of the first Covid-19 outbreak in Japan, and to the melodramatic score composed by Kazune Tanaka. Instead of tissues, a cheese grater is required.
After failing to find a job upon graduating from the university of Tokyo, Misaki (Yukiko Shinohara) is stuck in her rural hometown with her handicapped mother Mitsuko (Atsuko Takahata). She endures a horrendous day-to-day abuse by the parent who maybe suffered a stroke which did impair her mobility,...
There is a lot of pathos to deal with in this Moscow International Film Festival main competition drama: theft and betrayal, psychological terror, a grueling parent, suicide, arrest, bullying, the pouring rain – it’s all there, set against the backdrop of the first Covid-19 outbreak in Japan, and to the melodramatic score composed by Kazune Tanaka. Instead of tissues, a cheese grater is required.
After failing to find a job upon graduating from the university of Tokyo, Misaki (Yukiko Shinohara) is stuck in her rural hometown with her handicapped mother Mitsuko (Atsuko Takahata). She endures a horrendous day-to-day abuse by the parent who maybe suffered a stroke which did impair her mobility,...
- 4/30/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
West North West’s bold, intimate study of three ladies brought together by attraction, yet isolated by race, religion and sexuality, features knockout performances by its leads. Model, actress and television personality, Sahel Rosa spoke with me candidly about the challenges of growing up as an Iranian in Japan, and taking on the taboo of portraying a Muslima entranced by another woman. The Lady Miz Diva: Having spoken with your costar, Ms. Kan Hanae, she mentioned you, Ms. Yamauchi Yuka and herself getting together in cafés for long talks to create your characters amongst yourselves. What was your most challenging aspect in creating Naima? Sahel Rosa: Actually, on my end, I did not know who was going to be playing Kei until being on set. {Laughs.}...
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- 7/28/2017
- Screen Anarchy
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