my rambling introduction

[Andrew Stead]

Hello,

My name is Andrew from the U.K and I'm currently living in Yamagata-ken, 
Japan, teaching english.  Having studied Film studies at College and Media 
Technology at University I developed an interest in films outside of the 
mainstream.  Since I have always had an interest in Japan I begun to search 
out the few Japanese films available on video in England and those on TV.  
The number available has been steadily increasing over the years, so I have 
had the oppurtunity to see a wide variety of Japanese films.  Now that I am 
living in Japan, my viewing choices have expanded dramatically, and I have 
joined this list to try to keep on top of what's worth watching and to learn 
some of the finer details of films that I do see (my Japanese is far from 
perfect!).

Directors whose films I constantly enjoy are Akira Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, 
Yasujiro Ozu and Hayo Miyazaki.  I particularly like the minimilistic style 
of films like Yasujiro Ozu's "Late Spring" and "Tokyo Story" and Kitano's 
"Ano Natsu Ichiban Shizukana Umi".

Recently I have enjoyed watching "Chugoku no Chojin" (Not sure of the 
directors name), all I know is the cinematographer also dis Hana-bi. And 
Shohei Imamura's "Unagi".

I hope I can contribute something worthwhile every so often to this list.

Andrew

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