Kambole Campbell Festivals

Nov 21, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Kambole Campbell Festivals |Kambole Campbell |David West |Jordan Cronk

Reviewed from the 2024 Tokyo International Film FestivalMany filmmakers, both in and out of Japan, have sought to challenge the mythos around the samurai caste. The idealised image of the noble, selfless warrior has been met with a raised eyebrow by filmmakers like Kobayashi Masaki, whose classic film Harakiri (1962) decries the honour system of ritual suicide as pointless folly.

Nov 12, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Kambole Campbell |Kate Stables |Roger Luckhurst |Kambole Campbell Festivals

An 11-year-old girl embarks on an emotional journey with an immortal ghost cat in Yamashita Nobuhiro and Kuno Yoko’s frenetic, style-switching animation. 12 November 2024Reviewed from the 2024 Tokyo International Film FestivalIt feels easy and perhaps reductive to draw a line between the countryside fantasies of Hayao Miyazaki and Ghost Cat Anzu.