Shindo Kaze & Harada Masato Interviews

[Miles Wood]

Stephen Cremin wrote:

>
> * Masato Harada: Wild Dogged Director
>   Born in in Japan in 1949, Masato Harada found the
>   meaning of life in cinema and a mentor in Howard Hawks while living
>   in the United States. After tackling social issues in Kamikaze Taxi
>   (ethnic minorities), Bounce Kogals (teenage prostitution) and
>   Jubaku/Spellbound (yakuza corporatism), visual maestro Masato Harada
>   comes back with a strange film mixing forest ghost creatures and
>   incestuous taboos. Inugami won the Best Feature prize at Newport
>   earlier this month.

Harada's ROWING THROUGH has recently been released on DVD in the US for those
that are interested; I noticed it in a store yesterday next to ADRENALIN
DRIVE, which I didn't much care for when it played the HKIFF a couple of
years back.

Miles