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/ 29 November 2006
As solemn bells ring across the temple, Buddhist priest Kensho Oyamada asks Japanese retirees to give away, for the moment at least, what they have spent their lives earning. He tells them to take off their watches, throw away their business cards and forget about their job titles — abandoning the values and status symbols by which they judge themselves in modern Japan.
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/ 23 September 2005
Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi’s <i>Turtles Can Fly</i> is not ideological, but instead depicts reality through the most innocent of bystanders — children, writes Kaori Kaneko.