Author Spotlight

Moeko Fujii

Moeko Fujii is a scholar and critic whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, Aperture, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. She writes a regular column on film for Orion magazine.

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Isle of Dogs: Stray Dogs and Show Dogs

In his second stop-motion feature, Wes Anderson grapples with what it means to acknowledge one another within systems that separate beings between pet and master, wild and tamed.

By Moeko Fujii

Performances

Step by Step: Hideko Takamine in When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

Known for her resilient heroines, the prolific Japanese actor finds agency through moments of hesitation in one of her seventeen collaborations with Mikio Naruse.

By Moeko Fujii

Who’s That Man? Mifune at 100

An actor of extraordinary physical presence and kinetic energy, Toshiro Mifune was the most widely recognized and transformative superstar in postwar Japanese cinema.

By Moeko Fujii