Exclusive Trailer Debut for Hiroshi Shimizu Retrospective, Starting May 4, Sheds Light on a Japanese Master
If it is very hard to expand the canon, the legwork must always be done. In my own time I’ve seen the understanding of mid-century Japanese cinema expand, however marginally, from Kurosawa alone to Ozu and Mizoguchi; it may be time to place room for their contemporary Hiroshi Shimizu, whose films are subject of a…