2024-03-03 00:07 3646

While it is far from easy to broach topics relating to sexual assault in a still-conservative Japan, actor-turned-direct

2024-03-02 18:09 2376

IMAGINARY WORLDWIDE DEALNetflix has picked up worldwide rights to “The Imaginary,” a currently-on-release Japanese anima

2024-03-02 12:05 3577

Indie distributor Bitters End has finally set a theatrical release date in Japan for Christopher Nolan’s lauded “Oppenhe

2024-03-02 03:01 2571

Ashihara Hinako, a 50-year-old Japanese manga artist, has been found dead near Tokyo. Japanese media report that the pol

2024-03-02 00:11 4517

Yoshimoto Kogyo, an Osaka-based talent agency and Japanese media company that celebrates its 110thanniversary this year,

2024-03-01 21:09 403

To composers Zach Johnston and Matteo Roberts, music is never an afterthought in storytelling.The duo, collectively know

2024-03-01 21:07 2872

When Netflix debuts the limited animated series “Oni: Thunder God’s Tale” on Friday, Oct. 21, it will be the culmination

2024-03-01 12:04 3524

This story was first published at MIPCOM earlier this month.Three film women of Japan hit the Croisette on Tuesday for M

2024-03-01 00:03 2172

A show about a down-on-his-luck college dropout and his rapper cousin navigating the music industry as the latter’s star

2024-02-29 23:23 444

Netflix has acquired Nippon TV’s upcoming already completed rom-com drama “Turn to me Mukai-kun.”The series explores the

2024-02-29 21:09 5156

Rina Sawayama’s self-titled debut album is indisputably one of the most innovative pop records of recent years, a head-s

2024-02-29 18:10 3686

FESTIVALJapanese director Kawase Naomi will lead the international competition jury of the 44th Cairo International Film

2024-02-29 18:04 1636

Spotify and New York’s legendary Electric Lady Studios have expanded their partnership to include a series of live EPs,

2024-02-29 09:04 4930

Japanese director Miike Takashi, who is known for slasher film “Ichi The Killer” and stomach-churning “Audition,” Friday

2024-02-29 00:05 2058

Japanese author Oe Kenzaburo, the winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature, has died at age 88. His date of death, a

2024-02-28 21:03 3492

Toho, Japan’s most powerful movie studio, is launching a production services offshoot intended to assist and grow foreig

2024-02-28 18:05 3042

The 57th edition of Karlovy Vary Intl. Film Festival, which runs June 30-July 8, has planned a retrospective program foc

2024-02-28 17:05 1391

Film director Yoshida Kiju (formerly Yoshida Yoshishige) died on Thursday of pneumonia at age 89, Japanese media sources

2024-02-28 16:30 3257

Kobayashi Masahiro, the director of four films that screened at Cannes, died in Tokyo on August 20, 2022, age 68. His de

2024-02-28 15:04 3750

Shimada Yoko, the Japanese actor who earned a Golden Globe for her role as Mariko in 1980s miniseries ‘Shogun,’ has died