Contemporary japanese film - mark schilling

Mark Schilling set off for Japan in 1975 to immerse himself in the culture, learn the language, and haunt the theaters.

He has been there ever since.

In 1989 he became a regular film reviewer for the Japan Times , and has written on Japanese film for a variety of other publications, including Screen International , the Japan edition of Premier , the Asian edition of Newsweek , Asian Wall Street Journal , Japan Quarterly , Winds , Cinemaya , and Kinema Jumpo .