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      Kenta McGrath
      April 2004
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Author Kenta McGrath

Kenta McGrath

Kenta McGrath is a writer, translator and filmmaker. His recent work includes a chapter on war cannibalism and Japanese cinema in the forthcoming edited collection (In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach (Routledge, April 2020), and an audio commentary for Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows, part of a Blu-ray collection of the director’s work released by the British Film Institute (2019).

Lying About Homework (Abbas Kiarostami, 1989)

Kenta McGrath
July 2020
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“It’s a film about homework.” Or so Abbas Kiarostami tells a group of schoolboys who approach him on the street and ask what he’s filming. “Have you done your homework?” Kiarostami asks them, in turn. A resoun...

Pass it on: Mysterious Object at Noon (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2000)

Kenta McGrath
April 2020
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Mysterious Object at Noon. Even at a first glance, Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first feature has one of the most evocative titles in the history of cinema (the original title, Dogfahr ...

3/11 Cinema

Kenta McGrath
October 2019
This is what defined cinema in the 2010s
The multifaceted disaster which struck Japan’s northeastern Tōhoku region on 11 March 2011 – a magnitude-9 earthquake, which triggered a devastating tsunami then the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl – resul...
Stuff And Dough

Off the Road Again: Stuff and Dough (Cristi Puiu, 2001)

Kenta McGrath
September 2017
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It wasn’t until Cristi Puiu’s breakthrough second feature The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu, 2005) and a remarkable string of successes by his young Romanian contemporaries that many paid a...
Nobody Knows

Nobody Knows (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2004)

Kenta McGrath
June 2017
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Hirokazu Koreeda’s Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai, 2004) is a fictionalisation of an infamous incident from 1988, whereby a mother left her four children – all born to different fathers and, with the possible e...

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