Learning and Teaching with Ainu Mosir (2020)
I’ve spent this semester working as a teaching assistant for a course at my home university titled “World Cinema Today.” In addition to introducing students to the methods and language…
Reflections on Ainu Characters in Media 2 – The Festival of the Forest and Lake (1958)
The opening of Mori to Mizūmi no Matsuri (1958) could easily be mistaken for a Hollywood western. The camera performs a long pan over rugged mountains and grassy plains, from…
Reflections on Ainu Characters in Media 1 — Ship of Outlaws (1950)
Ship of Outlaws (Gorotsuki-bune, 1950) is one of the first narrative films featuring Ainu characters. Directed by Kazuo Mori for Daiei Film, the film adapts the much longer novel by…