Hong Kong-based Asian Shadows has taken international sales rights to Japanese documentary The Cats Of Gokogu Shrine, ahead of its world premiere in Berlin’s Forum section.
It is directed by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda who has screened several works in Forum including Zero, Inland Sea, Mental and Campaign. His latest follows the stray cats that live in an ancient Shinto shrine in the seaside resort town of Ushimado, Japan.
The Gokogu Shrine, also known as the Cat Shrine, is home to dozens of felines. Some residents take care of them while others complain about the mess they leave in the neighbourhood,...
It is directed by acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda who has screened several works in Forum including Zero, Inland Sea, Mental and Campaign. His latest follows the stray cats that live in an ancient Shinto shrine in the seaside resort town of Ushimado, Japan.
The Gokogu Shrine, also known as the Cat Shrine, is home to dozens of felines. Some residents take care of them while others complain about the mess they leave in the neighbourhood,...
- 1/18/2024
- ScreenDaily
Kazuhiro Soda is a rare gem of Japanese documentary filmmaking. Currently based in New York, he is an author of nine films, which he callsobservational cinema. With the help of 10 rules he calls commandments, he set up a distinctive style of independent filmmaking, that consistently builds up his persona among documentary scene in the world as a determined and and immensely respectful filmmaker. Daring to tackle taboos within local communities that no one seems to even remember about, Soda presents Japan seemingly as both an outsider and an insider, which results with fascinating and contemplative depictions.
His recent piece, “Zero” (2020), is his 9th film. He comes back to the small city of Okayama, where he previously shot many of his other titles, including “Mental” (2008), an intense observation on the relationship of psychiatrist, Dr. Yamamoto and his patients, which was conceived through the body of the dynamics of a small clinic ran by Yamamoto himself.
His recent piece, “Zero” (2020), is his 9th film. He comes back to the small city of Okayama, where he previously shot many of his other titles, including “Mental” (2008), an intense observation on the relationship of psychiatrist, Dr. Yamamoto and his patients, which was conceived through the body of the dynamics of a small clinic ran by Yamamoto himself.
- 5/3/2020
- by Lukasz Mankowski
- AsianMoviePulse
Mubi's retrospective Kazuhiro Soda: Radical Observation runs March 4 – April 17, 2019. A retrospective of the filmmaker is also showing March 3 – March 27, 2019 at Spectacle in Brooklyn.In the crowded field of auteur-driven nonfiction cinema, the New York-based Japanese filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda has distinguished himself as one of its most vital and consistently rewarding talents. Regularly selected for international film festivals and awards since premiering his breakout debut Campaign in 2007, Soda’s deeply personal and probing observational documentaries offer intimate revelations across a wide swath of subjects, including: political elections; public health work; artistic practice; fading rural Japanese communities and industries; and, most recently, Americanness (The Big House). Co-produced by his wife Kiyoko Kashiwagi through their independent production company Laboratory X, these consecutively numbered “Observational Films” are guided by Soda’s immense curiosity and empathetic imagination as well as his “10 Commandments of Observational Filmmaking”—a Dogme 95-like set of rules that distills the...
- 3/12/2019
- MUBI
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