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Already a Live-Action Film? How 'Look Back' Differs From the Manga and Anime

Already a Live-Action Film? How 'Look Back' Differs From the Manga and Anime

Few titles have moved across media this quickly. Fujimoto Tatsuki’s 2021 one-shot 「Look Back」 became an anime in 2024 and has now returned as a live-action film in 2026, with Kore-eda Hirokazu taking charge of the screenplay and directing.
Naver Webtoon Confirms Anime Adaptation of ‘The Remarried Empress,’ 15 Titles Set for Global Markets

Naver Webtoon Confirms Anime Adaptation of ‘The Remarried Empress,’ 15 Titles Set for Global Markets

Three titles, including a blockbuster with 3 billion cumulative views, will be unveiled first under a Korea-U.S.-Japan co-production partnership with HAYATE and Crunchyroll
K-Webtoons step up global animation streaming push Naver Webtoon’s global intellectual property expansion has entered a new phase. Three megahits — ‘The Remarried Empress,’ ‘The Boxer’ and ‘Teenage Mercenary’ — each with billions of views worldwide, are being reborn as global animated series.
Review: Live-Action 'Look Back' Preserves the Original's Spirit With Greater Nuance

Review: Live-Action 'Look Back' Preserves the Original's Spirit With Greater Nuance

Just five years. That is how long it took for the one-shot manga 「Look Back」 to move beyond Japan and capture readers around the world. Tatsuki Fujimoto published the short manga in 2021. It follows Fujino Ayumu and her truant classmate Kyomoto, an exceptionally gifted artist, and what happens when...
François Ozon’s ‘The Stranger’: Faithful Adaptation or Seductive Subversion?

François Ozon’s ‘The Stranger’: Faithful Adaptation or Seductive Subversion?

Albert Camus’ 「The Stranger」, long considered a near-untouchable text for filmmakers, returns to the screen in François Ozon’s bold adaptation — one that restores the colonial Algerian context the novel left at the margins. “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday.
[Written Interview] 'Street Fighter' ⑤ Andrew Schulz on playing Hibiki Dan: “Hibiki Dan is charming because he’s all bluster but has no skill.”

[Written Interview] 'Street Fighter' ⑤ Andrew Schulz on playing Hibiki Dan: “Hibiki Dan is charming because he’s all bluster but has no skill.”

Fated rivals Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo) join the “World Warrior Tournament” at Chun-Li’s (Callina Liang) suggestion.
​ ▶ 〈Street Fighter〉 Continues from the interview with Callina Liang, who plays Chun-Li. ​ 〈Street Fighter〉 How did you come to join the film. ​ Kale Boiter, the producer who is one of the film’s unsung heroes, came to see my stand-up show one night.
[Written Interview] 'Street Fighter' ④ Kalina Liang on playing Chun-Li: “Everything you see in the film is my real body.”

[Written Interview] 'Street Fighter' ④ Kalina Liang on playing Chun-Li: “Everything you see in the film is my real body.”

Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo), fated rivals, enter the World Warrior Tournament at Chun-Li's (Kalina Liang) invitation.
​ ▶ 〈Street Fighter〉 continues from the interview with Andrew Koji, who plays Ryu. ​ Chun-Li is such an iconic character in Street Fighter. What did Chun-Li mean to you when you were growing up. I grew up playing Street Fighter at arcades. I grew up in Beijing, and there was an arcade near our home.
[Email Interview] ‘Street Fighter’ ③ Andrew Koji on Ryu: “The person I drew on most was Choi Bae-dal, the Fighter in the Wind.”

[Email Interview] ‘Street Fighter’ ③ Andrew Koji on Ryu: “The person I drew on most was Choi Bae-dal, the Fighter in the Wind.”

Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo), sworn rivals, enter the World Warrior Tournament at Chun-Li’s (Callina Liang) suggestion.
​ ▶ 〈Street Fighter〉 continues from the interview with Noah Centineo, who plays Ken. ​ I heard you and Noah Centineo, who plays Ken Masters, Ryu’s friend and rival, were constantly engaged in intense competition on set. Is that true. Yes, we went at it everywhere.
[Written Interview] 'Street Fighter' ① Director Kitau Sakurai: “I got chills when Ken and Ryu finally stood back-to-back.”

[Written Interview] 'Street Fighter' ① Director Kitau Sakurai: “I got chills when Ken and Ryu finally stood back-to-back.”

Fated rivals Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo) enter the World Warrior Tournament at Chun-Li’s (Callina Liang) invitation.
〈Street Fighter〉 is back. In 1993, fated rivals Ryu and Ken join the World Warrior Tournament at the invitation of Chun-Li , a mysterious woman. The tournament is an arena where fists, fate and fury collide in brutal fashion.
Live-Action Junji Ito Anthology Series ‘Strange’ Debuts on Wavve Today

Live-Action Junji Ito Anthology Series ‘Strange’ Debuts on Wavve Today

The 11-episode horror anthology adapts 13 short stories, with IVE and 10CM contributing to the soundtrack
Wavve, an online video streaming service , is exclusively releasing 〈Strange: Junji Ito's Sleepless, Bizarre Tales〉 (hereafter 〈Strange〉), an anthology horror series adapted from the works of Japanese horror manga master Junji Ito.
Ahn Jae-hoon on 〈Gills〉: 'To create beautiful skies and water, I looked only at water and skies in master paintings'

Ahn Jae-hoon on 〈Gills〉: 'To create beautiful skies and water, I looked only at water and skies in master paintings'

Director Ahn Jae-hoon says he turned to the skies and water in master paintings to shape the visual world of 〈Gills〉, his new animated adaptation of Gu Byeong-mo's novel 『Gills』. Ahn Jae-hoon, known for lyrical animation such as 〈Dream of a Precious Day〉 (2011), 〈Buckwheat Flowers, A Lucky Day, and...