Ever since features such as Dennis Hopper’s “Easy Rider” or László Benedek’s “The Wild One“, the image of the motorcycle is closely connected to notions like freedom, independence and rebellion. It has also sparked numerous clubs worldwide dedicated to the motorbike, a specific brand and, of course, its rider too, who almost feels like a modern-day cowboy in a way. Naturally, the cult surrounding motorcycles would also reach Japan, with many of its most famous clubs originating in the 1980s. In his 1986 feature “His Motorbike, Her Island” director Nobuhiko Obayashi would present his own approach to the various associations to the motorbike, what kind of person rides one and to what ends the longing for freedom would lead someone.
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While balancing his studies at music school and his part-time-job as a messenger, Ko (Riki Takeuchi) still finds plenty of time riding his motorcycle,...
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While balancing his studies at music school and his part-time-job as a messenger, Ko (Riki Takeuchi) still finds plenty of time riding his motorcycle,...
- 8/22/2022
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
In Martin Scorsese’s masterful “Silence,” Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver are beaten, starved, isolated and tormented — but good lord do they have amazing hair. In a conversation with TheWrap, Garfield injected some levity into the film’s examination of faith and sacrifice. The coifs on Garfield and Driver would look as good on a Milan runway as they do in the bamboo torture chambers of 17th century Japan. “Blame Noriko Watanabe for this,” Garfield said of the film’s head of hair and makeup — whose credits also include “Memoirs of a Geisha” and Scorsese’s “Gangs of New York.
- 12/29/2016
- by Matt Donnelly
- The Wrap
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