Moeko Fujii is a writer and critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Aperture, the Criterion Collection, and elsewhere.
Moeko Fujii
Feature
The Imagination of the Tiny
THE FIRST RULE OF BORROWING, a father tells his daughter in Mary Norton’s Borrowers, is that “a Borrower must never be seen.” But like in Fight Club, the story is dependent Continue reading
Green Screen
Refusing to Leave
SOMEONE I LOVED ONCE TOLD ME that the pigeons were the best part of Yasujirō Ozu’s Late Spring. He pronounced it, in that gentle way of his, to be a perfect Continue reading
Green Screen
Out of Shape
Watching a movie can sometimes feel like swimming backstroke. You spend minutes suspended between boredom and curiosity—Why won’t the sky move?—until you stop thinking and become something else, a rhythm. It’s Continue reading
Art & Craft
Fake Plants
On the trail of the real in The Long Goodbye. Continue reading