Aum Shin Rikyo: Terrorism in Japanese Cinema

Japanese cinema has a dark, often subversive narrative of violence. In the years since local terrorist group, Aum Shin Rikyo carried out a series of devastating attacks on an unsuspecting urban population, there appears to be an upward trend in violence in Japanese cinema. At a talk at the Japan foundation in London in 2018,… Read More Aum Shin Rikyo: Terrorism in Japanese Cinema

January 26, 2025January 28, 2025 Mariyam Hasham

Men of Film Noir

Film Noir evokes rain drenched streets, femme fatales with a gun in their purse, and most of all, the cynical, perversely honourable men who populate these black and white films. George Raft, handsome, sexy and just this side of civilised leaning against a lamppost in 1930s Shanghai; Humphrey Bogart cradling the Maltese Falcon in his… Read More Men of Film Noir

January 23, 2025January 28, 2025 Mariyam Hasham