2024-03-03 18:12 2348

Aniplex, a Sony business unit best known as a major producer and distributor of anime films and series including the hit

2024-03-03 15:15 5214

After opening on April 28 in Japan, “The Super Mario Bros. Movie” has hit the JPY10 billion ($71 million) milestone in j

2024-03-03 03:15 4136

Japan’s cinema box office edged slightly forward in 2023 after a strong rebound in 2022, but the business remains at lev

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 12:08 4327

Netflix is further expanding its slate of unscripted TV content from Japan, its most lucrative market in East Asia. The

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 09:05 2564

Yoshiki, leader of the group X Japan, has donated $100,000 in support of mental health to MusiCares to help music creato

2024-03-02 06:04 3781

Despite the impact of the pandemic, Japan’s anime industry would seem to be in a state of rude health, according to figu

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,

2024-03-02 00:06 2262

Japanese anime series took four of the top ten places in streaming service Netflix’s latest global chart of non-English-

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 15:04 2437

The current president of Johnny & Associates, possibly Japan’s most fearsome talent agency, has formally apologized for

2024-03-01 12:10 910

V6, a male idol supergroup associated with the once all-powerful Johnny & Associates agency, has announced its break-up,

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 03:04 2527

The selection of two restored films by Ozu Yasujiro for the Cannes Classics section will kick-off a six-month long celeb

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