Articles Culture Salute to Toshiro Mifune: Japan’s Greatest Movie Star By Peter Tasker | December 2, 2022 | Comment (1) Share When Hideyoshi orders his soldiers to cut off the man’s nose and ears, he fights back
Articles Culture The Ghost of Kurosawa: A Samurai Videogame Channels History By Peter Tasker | September 5, 2020 | Comment (0) Share “The Ghost of Tsushima” does provide moral dilemmas and intriguing back-stories for the characters.
Articles Reflections Going Global: Parasite Vs. Winnie the Pooh By Peter Tasker | February 29, 2020 | Comment (0) Share Winnie the Pooh, like Richard Gere, has been cancelled in China.
Articles Culture Manga Amongst the Marbles: the Triumph of “Trashiness” By Peter Tasker | June 15, 2019 | Comment (0) Share Tezuka stands in relation to Japanese manga rather as Akira Kurosawa does to Japanese film
Culture Non-fiction New Book: “On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director” By Peter Tasker | April 14, 2019 | Comment (0) Share My latest book “On Kurosawa – A Tribute to the Master Director” explores AK’s work and life
Articles Culture The World Is Bigger Through Kurosawa’s Eyes By Peter Tasker | January 22, 2019 | Comment (0) Share Great films travel far through time and place. When viewed by fresh eyes, they become new films.
Articles Culture Martin Scorsese’s Searing “Silence” By Peter Tasker | January 9, 2017 | Comment (3) Share Scorsese’s favoured milieu is the “mean streets” of inner city America, where he grew up, with their violence, profanity and crime