Jasper Sharp is a writer and curator specialising in Japanese cinema and the co-editor of the website Midnight Eye. His books include Behind the Pink Curtain (2008) and The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema (2011).
He tweets @jaspersharp.
Articles by Jasper Sharp
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From the Magazine
Of leprosy and pancakes: Jasper Sharp on a low-key three-hander that shows more of the good than the bad of Japan’s perennial outsider director Kawase Naomi.
Thursday, August 4, 2016
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Washed away: lost films by female directors
Cinema’s pre-segregated heyday of female filmmaking is sadly also its most hidden from history. Here seven critics nominate lost treasures they hope might yet be rediscovered.
Friday, October 2, 2015
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Free anime: Mizue Mirai, wizard of blobs and blocks
Japan’s answer to the likes of Oskar Fischinger and Norman McLaren talks to Jasper Sharp about his synaesthetic “cell animation”, why he hand-draws computer-animated lookalikes and his one-man Exquisite corpse-style motion epic Wonder.
Friday, May 9, 2014
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Second youth: the golden age of Nikkatsu Studios
Jasper Sharp on how Japan’s oldest film studio became home to the country’s hippest post-war talents.
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
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Head trip: the animated worlds of Yamamura Kôji
Ten years ago Yamamura Kôji’s comically surreal Mt. Head put the thriving world of Japanese independent animation on the map. He looks back over his quarter-century career with Jasper Sharp.
Friday, January 4, 2013
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The web video of 2012: contributors s-t
The year’s best online movies, by 16 international correspondents.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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Young criminal, pink-film iconoclast and savage post-war social critic – “the most controversial filmmaker in Japan”; 1 April 1936–17 October 2012.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
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Just when you thought it was safe to shed your 3D glasses, the South Koreans have added another ‘dimension’ to the movies. Jasper Sharp returns from the east in some physical confusion.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
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Down the Bunka: Japanese underground cinema of the 1960s
Jasper Sharp dives down the rabbit hole with the experimental Theatre Scorpio and its multimedia performance collectives.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
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Jasper Sharp remembers the puppet maker and stop-motion animator.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine.
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