Shiguéhiko Hasumi — mentor to Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Ryusuke Hamaguchi — will present the Japan Society retrospective, which is ...
After decades of political sensitivities and threats kept it from screens, Schrader’s Yukio Mishima biopic, considered by ...
Oppenheimer has already earned nearly a billion dollars worldwide, but Christopher Nolan’s epic has yet to open in one major country’s theaters: Japan, where the film is viewed as controversial given ...
Japan's 2026 Oscar entry Kokuho will hit U.S. theaters for an award-qualifying run beginning November 14 in Los Angeles and ...
Japan’s Motion Picture Producers Association has selected Kokuho, a film set in the world of Japanese traditional theater (“kabuki”), as the country’s contender for Best International Feature Film at ...
"Our generation is hopeless.... What are you laughing about?" Film Movement has debuted the official US trailer for an indie film from Japan titled Happyend, made by filmmaker Neo Sora as his first ...
The Tokyo-based director’s debut feature film weaves personal relationships with larger sociopolitical themes, creating what Sora described as “differences in scale” between intimate character ...
Paul Schrader tells the incredible story of why his masterpiece "Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters" never showed in Japan and shares details of his new film "Non Compos Mentis." ...
The new co-production treaty signed between Japan and Italy is being touted as a significant step towards reintegrating Japan’s film production industry with those overseas countries. “Blending ...