The curtain has closed on the one-month performance of the big hit kabuki adaptation of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, but the show will...
Photo Credit: ©2020 'his' Film Partners Rikiya Imaizumi, one of the leading directors in romance films, has a new movie – his. It is a...
On July 7, anime aficionados were greeted by a welcome news. Makoto Shinkai announced on Twitter that the film Tenki no Ko was finally finished...
Tokyo’s Akihabara district is known as a place for otaku culture, such as anime, manga, maid cafes, and underground idols. However, 11 years ago a...
He has an incomparable aesthetic vision and offbeat sense of humor. Many contend that American director Wes Anderson has “never made a bad movie,...
Director Hirokazu Kore-eda's film, Shoplifters (Manbiki Kazoku) won the Palme d'Or—the highest prize awarded—at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival held recently. This brilliant...
Criticism of the Korean film Battleship Island (directed by Ryoo Seung-wan) has been increasing. The film is set on the coal mine on Hashima Island,...
"Shogun" is not just a slickly-made exotic historical drama. It tells a powerful story about Japan and the West that is to a significant degree based...
Mihara's award-winning film "Takano Tofu" explores the universal theme of the transforming power of human connections through the tale of a stubborn tofu maker.
Hamaguchi's "Evil Does Not Exist" impresses with poised delivery but suffers from deadpan acting and an unembellished style that is bland even for slow cinema.
"No one has bothered to verify these exaggerations and demagoguery" — Chosun Ilbo reporter on historical misrepresentation at Seodaemun Independence Park.
The legacy, global appeal, and profound impact of Akira Kurosawa on cinematic storytelling were the focus of author and analyst Peter Tasker on April 11.