Hayley Scanlon

@hayleylscanlon

Japanese & East Asian cinema specialist. Writer for hire. Japanese to English translation & subtitling I can't access DMs because I live on Silly Island, but you can contact me via my website: 한국어도 공부하고 있어요!

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Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Apr 30

Diston credits her student days in Cardiff as being “influential” in discovering the “Celtic connection” between Kernewek and Cymraeg, the Welsh language, through similar terms such as hireth (hiraeth in Cymraeg) that evoke an emotion difficult to encapsulate within a single English word. She said: “It doesn’t exist in the English language. It can’t be translated – and I think that’s really beautiful because you do feel a sense of belonging when you’re from these Celtic places. It feels like a completely different cultural experience … [and] I think it’s really cool how the language also feeds into that.”

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Apr 2

Udine Far East Film Festival will host a Koji Yakusho retrospective this year in addition to awarding him the Golden Mulberry Award (alongside Fan Bingbing who will be there with Mother Bhumi) www.fareastfilm.com/eng/news/far...

YAKUSHO KOJI: PERFECT ROLES [7]
13 Assassins, MIIKE Takashi, period action drama, Japan 2010
The Blood of Wolves, SHIRAISHI Kazuya, crime, Japan 2018
The Eel, IMAMURA Shohei, symbolic drama, Japan 1997
Perfect Days, Wim WENDERS, drama, Japan/Germany 2023
Tampopo, ITAMI Juzo, comedy, Japan 1985/4K 2022
Under The Open Sky, NISHIKAWA Miwa, drama, Japan 2020
The Woodsman and the Rain, OKITA Shuichi, comedy-drama, Japan 2011

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Feb 7

Just received my contributor copy of Arrow's The Sana Collection featuring a booklet essay by me.

Cover image of The Sana Collection blu-ray release

Back cover of The Sana Collection blu-ray listing special features including "new writing on the films by critic and Asian cinema expert Hayley Scanlon"

List of contents for the booklet accompanying the blu-ray release of The Sana Collection including "Bewitching Melodies and Analogue Nightmares by Hayley Scanlon"

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Jan 8

Very happy to have contributed a booklet essay for Eureka's upcoming release of Cruel Tale of Bushido eurekavideo.co.uk/movie/cruel-...

Cover for Eureka's upcoming release of Cruel Tale of Bushido featuring a sword going through a hand.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Dec 19

My nominations for Sight and Sound's best films of 2025 poll:

Hayley Scanlon

Freelance film writer; editor (Windows on Worlds), UK

1. Resurrection (Bi Gan, China, France)
2. Kokuho (Lee Sang-il, Japan)
3. Peg O’ My Heart (Nick Cheung Ka-Fai, Hong Kong)
4. My Sunshine (Okuyama Hiroshi, Japan, France)
5. Dead to Rights (Shen Ao, China)
6. Sato and Sato (Amano Chihiro, Japan)
7. Bel Ami (Geng Jun, France)
8. The Young Strangers (Uchiyama Takuya, Japan, France, South Korea, Hong Kong)
9. The World of Love (Yoon Ga-eun, South Korea)
10. The Invisible Half (Nishiyama Masaki, Japan)

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Dec 4

Shot of the back cover of Film Movement's Courtesans & Criminals: The Underworld of Hideo Gosha set featuring blurbs for Onimasa / Tokyo Bordello plus listing special features such as commentaries by Jasper Sharp, video essays by Patrick Macias, and an essay by Hayley Scanlon.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Nov 25

Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love

Poster for March Comes in Like a Lion (三月のライオン) directed by Hitoshi Yazaki and released in 1992. (Nothing to do with the shogi-themed manga, anime, or film released in 2017)

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Nov 4

Another Gaze Editions

Our third book, Susaki Paradise, is finally off to print and will be available in December, with an official launch in January. You can preorder it here.

First published in Japan in 1955, Yoshiko Shibaki’s Susaki Paradise is a collection of six interlinked short stories revolving around the ramshackle Bar Chigusa and its no-nonsense landlady, Tokuko. This outpost on the edge of the canal leading to Susaki Paradise—once an illustrious pleasure quarter, and now a patch of dilapidated broth- els—is a meeting place for those teetering on the edge of desperation and ruin. What unites the women in these stories is the uncompromising urgency with which they go about their lives amid the challenges of the post-war period. A bracing look at the dreams of those whose profession it is to sustain the fantasies of men, the stories in this collection formed the inspiration behind Yūzo Kawashima’s Suzaki Paradise: Red Light and Kenji Mizoguchi’s Street of Shame (both 1956). In the hands of Yoshiko Shibaki (1914–1991)—the second woman to win Japan’s esteemed Akutagawa Prize—these precarious, transient women living on the outskirts of society are handled with a disarming and devastating combination of realism, lyricism, and savage humour. This book marks the first appearance of Yoshiko Shibaki’s writing in English.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Oct 8

Does this mean something else, or is this year's LEAFF dedicating a large chunk of its programme to AI cinema? www.leaff.org.uk/lineup2025

Snapshot of the website for the London East Asia Film Festival showing a list of short films under the title "AI Cinema".

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Oct 7

Good thing I checked on the off chance, looks like Kokuho is finally coming to the UK as the closing gala of this year's LEAFF www.leaff.org.uk/closing2025

Screencap of a webpage showing Kokuho is screening as the closing gala for this year's LEAFF

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Sep 15

B&W movies are the best movies Our Neighbour, Miss Yae (Yasujiro Shimazu, 1934) Tokyo Sweetheart (Yasuki Chiba, 1952) The Ghost of the Hunchback (Hajime Sato, 1965) A Bloodthirsty Killer (Lee Yong-min, 1965)

Still from Our Neighbour Miss Yae (Yasujiro Shimazu, 1934)

Still from Tokyo Sweetheart (Yasuki Chiba, 1952)

Still from The Ghost of the Hunchback (Hajime Sato, 1965)

A Bloodthirsty Killer (Lee Yong-min, 1965)

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Sep 9

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Screenshot of my position in the queue for LFF tickets, 14745th.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Sep 7

If you see this repost with a vampire that's not Dracula.

Still from The Lady Vampire directed by Nobuo Nakagawa, 1959.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Sep 5

Skeet a PERFECT album from the '90s that isn‘t Nirvana or Pearl Jam

Cover of Guerrilla by Super Furry Animals released 1999

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Aug 15

Got an alert on my phone that you can book a whole month in advance for the new Demon Slayer movie (in the UK). How times change!

Screenshot of the Odeon App on an iPhone showing four screenings of the subtitled Demon Slayer: The Movie - Infinity Castle and one for the dub at the Odeon Haymarket on 12th September (the opening day).

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Jun 25

Still from The Homeless directed by Koichi Saito and released 1974. Meiko Kaji with a parasol at the beach.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Jun 25

Still from The Homeless directed by Koichi Saito and released 1974. Shintaro Katsu and Ken Takakura smoke at the beach.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Jun 25

It's hot out! Share some movie or TV characters at the beach.

Still from The Homeless directed by Koichi Saito and released 1974. Shintaro Katsu, Ken Takakura, and Meiko Kaji at the beach as seen from a gap in the wall of the hut.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Jun 22

I used to run with a pretty tough gang when I was younger. The gang:

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· May 27

This looks interesting. Period horror mystery from Vietnam Detective Kien: The Headless Horror coming to UK cinemas next week (poster is for the Australian release a week later). Directed by Victor Vù (Lôi Báo).

Poster featuring an eerie image of a scary presence above a waterfall. A man in historical dress stands in front flanked by men and women on either side. The text reads: "A movie by Victor Vù" "Detective Kien: The Headless Horror." "In cinemas 5th June with English subtitles."

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· May 25

post a character who looks good wet 💧

Screencap of a woman with a pained expression and dishevelled hair wearing kimono in the pouring rain. Yuko Tanaka in Amagi Pass, directed by Haruhiko Mimura and released in 1983.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Apr 29

Just received my contributor copy for Arrow's mammoth V-Cinema box set, Bullets & Betrayal, in which you can find my essay on the Female Prisoner Scorpion series!

Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Earl Jackson, Daisuke Miyao, and Hayley Scanlon

Susurrations of Sasori: Female Prisoners and the Ghost of Resistance

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Apr 2

Interesting strand of yokai and monster-themed cinema at this year's Udine Far East Film Festival

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Mar 28

Cancelled tv show you will never stop thinking about

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Mar 27

This has been driving me crazy, so I would like to know the answer too. It’s literally all of them, Weblio, Kotobank. I think Goo is still safe, or maybe I was just lucky.

Screenshot of a Japanese dictionary site prompting you to watch an ad before you can see the meaning of the word.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Mar 27

Honoured to have contributed a booklet essay to the BFI's 4K UHD release of Yojimbo & Sanjuro

cover image of BFI's Yojimbo and Sanjuro featuring a black and white image of Toshiro Mifune with a sword.

first page of booklet featuring essay title "A Sword Without a Sheath: Yojimbo and Sanjuro" by Hayley Scanlon

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Feb 27

The energy I bring to BlueSky

Black and white image of two men drinking in a bar. The subtitle reads: "How come we live in an evil world totally devoid of joy?"

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Feb 21

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Banner reading: "multiple-language AI subtitles. Making it easy to enjoy content from all over the world, no matter where you're from! Language is a barrier no more!"

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Feb 4

Looks like Tsui Hark's Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants is coming to UK cinemas from Friday www.odeon.co.uk/films/legend...

Poster for Tsui Hark's Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Gallants featuring the main characters against a fiery background.

Hayley Scanlon@hayleylscanlon· Jan 4

When you run out of interview questions with several minutes remaining.