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 ...

Japan has picked Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Cloud as the country’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Oscars. The film will premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this ...

"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 ...

Shiguéhiko Hasumi — mentor to Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Ryusuke Hamaguchi — will present the Japan Society retrospective, which is ...

As the biggest festival in one of the world’s biggest film markets, the Tokyo International Film Festival has always been held under the glare of painfully high expectations. But taking place towards ...

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 ...

The new venture, which is launching a fund, is set to back an ambitious slate of movies from leading Japanese directors including Hirokazu Kore-eda, Takashi Miike, Shunji Iwai, Miwa Nishikawa and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

An extraordinary new film, recently released by British outdoor company Rab, captures adventurous mountain runners as they fast-pack through a historic and treacherous alpine route, which starts and ...