A complete list of all my interviews, features and reviews dating back to 2000 for Midnight Eye can be found here.
Though a selection of my writing for the BFI Online is included in the list below, a complete list of articles to my name can be found here.
I have also written regularly about Japanese film, animation and culture for the All the Anime website since 2014, with the complete list linked here.
Selected Online Articles
‘Yasujiro Ozu: 10 essential films.’ BFI Online, December 2019.
‘Where to begin with Japanese Musicals.’ BFI Online, September 2019.
‘Where to begin with Robert Florey.’ BFI Online, September 2019.
‘Where to begin with Josef von Sternberg.’ BFI Online, May 2018.
‘Isao Takahata obituary.’ The Guardian, 8 April 2018.
‘Five masterpieces of Japanese widescreen... and how they use the frame.’ BFI Online, March 2018.
‘A celebration of Anna May Wong in six films.’ BFI Online, January 2018.
‘Book Review: Peter Godfrey-Smith ‘Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness.’ Interalia, September 2017.
‘Five highs and lows from the deep-sea adventures of Jacques Cousteau.’ BFI Online, August 2017.
‘How Akira Kurosawa films command the weather.’ BFI Online, August 2017.
‘10 great natural history films.’ BFI Online, June 2017.
‘100 years of Japanese animation: One great film per decade.’ BFI Online, June 2017. BFI Online, August 2017.
‘Seijun Suzuki obituary.’ The Guardian, 24 February 2017.
‘Where to begin with the Japanese New Wave.’ BFI Online, January 2017.
‘10 great Japanese films of the 21st century.’ BFI Online, September 2015.
‘Breaking Boundaries: Jazz, Pop and Rock & Roll in Japanese Cinema.’ Red Bull Academy, December 2014.
‘Ozu vs Godzilla.’ BFI Online, May 2014.
‘Free anime: Mizue Mirai, wizard of blobs and blocks.’ Sight & Sound online, May 2014.
‘Still crazy-good after 60 years: Seven Samurai.’ Sight & Sound online, May 2014.
‘10 great films set in Tokyo.’ BFI Online, June 2013.
‘Second Youth: The Golden Age of Nikkatsu Studios.’ Sight & Sound online, June 2013.
‘10 great Japanese gangster movies.’ BFI Online, March 2013.
‘Donald Richie obituary.’ The Guardian, 21 February 2013.
‘Head Trip: The Animated Worlds of Yamamura Kôji.’ Sight & Sound online, January 2013.
‘Wakamatsu Kôji, 1936-2012.’ Sight & Sound online, August 2010.
‘4DX: Here Come the Feelies.’ Sight & Sound online, June 2012
‘Down the Bunka: Japanese Underground Cinema of the 1960s.’ Sight & Sound online, July 2011.
‘Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary.’ The Guardian, 5 September 2010.
‘Kawamoto Kihachiro, 1925-2010.’ Sight & Sound online, August 2010.
Selected Print Articles (Non-academic)
‘What Lies Beneath: Kiyoshi Kurosawa.’ Sight & Sound, December 2016.
‘Future Sounds: Dolby Atmos.’ Sight & Sound, June 2015.
‘Japanese Evolution.’ Screen International: Japan Special 2013, May 2013.
‘Women who love to shoot – A rising tide of women film directors in Japan gets festival treatment.’ Japan Times, 18 September 2009.
‘Underground Fruit – Women in film: Atsuko Ohno talks about Peaches.’ Japan Times, 18 September 2009.
‘Pink thrills – Japanese sex movies go global.’ Japan Times, 4 December 2008.
‘Sex, Violence and Politics – Japanese Style: A Peep into the Pornographic Underworld of the Pink Film.’ Vertigo vol. 3 no. 4 Winter 2007.
‘Tachiguishi Retsuden.’ 3D World, April 2007.
‘Tales from Earthsea’ and ‘Tekkon Kinkreet.’ 3D World, January 2007.
‘Kings of the Castle: Howl’s Moving Castle’ and ‘Advent Children.’ 3D World, October 2005.
Selected Print Articles (Refereed academic)
‘The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema book review’ Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema vol. 5 no. 1 & 2, April 2013: 113-117.
‘Japanese Cinema in the Digital Age book review.’ Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema vol. 4 no. 2, December 2012: 195-199.
‘Buddha: Selling an Asian Spectacle.’ Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema vol. 4 no. 1, November 2012: 29-52.
‘Forgotten Roots of Japanimation: Masters of Puppets.’ Film International vol. 5 no. 1, 2007: 58-72.
‘Forgotten Roots of Japanimation: In Praise of Shadows.’ Film International vol. 4 no. 3, 2006: 30-48.
‘Lorelei: The Witch of the Pacific Ocean.’ Film International vol. 3 no. 16, 2005: 54-55.
‘Peep “TV” Show.’ Film International vol. 3 no. 16, 2005: 56-57.
‘Takashige Ichise: Man in the Shadows.’ Film International vol. 3 no. 17, September 2005: 4-5.
“Edogawa Rampo: A Hellish Mirror.” Film International vol. 4 no. 1, 2006: 24-34.