people: Kenji Sawada

Almost forty years later, this jet-black comedy about a one-man nuclear terrorist ring remains an absurdist masterwork

Maybe it could only take someone from outside Japan, like director Paul Schrader, to make an insightful movie about one of Japan's most divisive and fascinating figures

Japan's Roaring Twenties are both backdrop and stage for these three excursions into the delirious, the decadent, and the surreal