Tag: Kazuko Hosoki

As a filmmaker and a fan of Japanese media since my childhood in Hong Kong, I haven’t encountered a more compelling and cinematic work from Japan in years—until Netflix’s Straight to Hell, a nine-part series now streaming worldwide. As a film student, I’ve studied masters such as Kurosawa and Ozu, and I was reintroduced to the power of Japanese cinema during the first wave of J-horror in the late ’90s, with films like The Ring, The Grudge, and the Tomie series. After that, there seemed to be a two-decade void—until Straight to Hell, where cinema, television, and the internet converge in a near-perfect union.