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Award-winning novel makes its way to the screen in a star-studded lineup that shook Japan Japan's leading youth icons are coming to theaters in South Korea. Daewon Media, the film's distributor, officially announced on the 13th that the stars of 'You, Like a Star,' Yokohama Ryusei and Hirose Suzu,...

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...

Kaho begins the second act of her life, grounded in an artistic connection Kaho (35), one of Japan’s leading actresses known for her range, has married film director Sora Hokimoto (34), who is one year younger. Major Japanese media outlets, including Kyodo News, reported the marriage on the 15th,...

The origins of Asian animation come back to the screen The Busan International Film Festival secretariat officially announced on the 31st that it will hold a special program on Japanese animation at the 31st Busan International Film Festival, which opens Oct.

We’re in the era of big animated hits. It sounds like a joke, but it’s true. After DreamWorks and Disney set box-office records with theatrical animated features, Japanese animation has taken up the baton and is winning over devoted audiences.

Because they could not obtain the family’s consent, ethical questions about the film’s release inevitably follow. ​ You asked a really important question. There are ethical issues, of course. In fact, we released it without getting permission or even understanding from any member of the family.

There’s a film that has sparked buzz on every front, from the source material—an older sister’s schizophrenia and the parents’ confinement of her—to the production of a private documentary recorded by the family, and to the theater release format despite the absence of IPTV, VOD, OTT, and other...

Anyone who follows Japanese pop culture likely knows one writer by name: Sakamoto Yuji. A steady source of acclaimed TV dramas, Sakamoto has in recent years also produced consistently strong film screenplays. He teamed with Koreeda Hirokazu on 〈Monster〉 and with Tsukahara Ayuko on 〈The First Kiss〉.

This is a structure that connects the filming set of the late Edo period with that of a modern-day historical drama. The former is an era in which the shogunate was in decline ahead of the Meiji Restoration, while the latter is a period that came after the heyday of 1970s-80s historical dramas—when...

Even watching it again is surprising. 〈Don’t stop the camera. 〉(2017) is the case in point. With a modest production budget of 3 million yen (about 28. 5 million won), the film—made as a workshop project and initially screened in two theaters—went on to rake in a whopping 3 billion yen (about 28.