Kabei: Our Mother, which is based on Teruyo Nogami’s wartime memoirs, has received 12 nominations for the Japan Academy Awards, including Picture of the Year, Screenplay of the Year and More...
Criterion has decided to give out its Christmas gifts early this year, with the company announcing the release of Dodesukaden on March 17th next year. After a few less than More...
A new Japanese DVD release of After the Rain appears to be on its way, with Amazon.co.jp indicating an October 24 release. In case you have no idea what I More...
New York Sun sat down with Teruyo Nogami, who is currently in New York for the Tatsuya Nakadai retrospective. The rather short, but nevertheless interesting, exchange can be read here. More...
Yoji Yamada’s Kabei – Our Mother, which is based on the war time memoirs of Teruyo Nogami, got its first foreign screening at the Berling Film Festival on Wednesday. The More...
Gail Singer has reviewed Teruyo Nogami’s Waiting on the Weather for the Canadian newspaper Globe and Mail. Singer is positive about the book, concluding that this “addition to the vast library of interpretation of Kurosawa makes a nice teatime break.” For the whole review, see globeandmail.com.
The Japan Times has two articles related to Teruyo Nogami’s Waiting on the Weather — Making Movies with Akira Kurosawa. Firstly, there is a relatively short (but positive) review of the book. Secondly, and perhaps more interestingly, there is an interview with Teruyo Nogami about the book and Kurosawa in general.
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