Kaori Kaneko
latest news & developmentsJapan’s post-war generation seeks solace in pilgrimage
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…
Iraq’s first post-Saddam film ‘a symbolic one’
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.