Japan‘s Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday approved a remedial proposal by Toho Cinemas, the country’s largest movie theater operator, not to apply unfair pressure on third-party film distributors. The ...

This post was updated Jan. 7 at 8:27 p.m. Akiyo Fujimura is stretching her film repertoire beyond Japan to the landscape of the Hollywood movie industry. In October, Tokyo-born alumnus Fujimura joined ...

The number of children refusing to attend school in Japan is increasing at an alarming rate. This phenomenon, known as futoko, refers to the increasing number of children who don't attend school for ...

After decades of political sensitivities and threats kept it from screens, Schrader’s Yukio Mishima biopic, considered by ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Pensioner Shizue Kato didn't fancy the new "Demon Slayer" anime blockbuster and instead watched "Kokuho", a rare live action cinema hit in Japan, where animation rules. "Many of our friends already ...

Two features in this year’s selection are bound by an international partnership forged behind the scenes of the festival just ...

South Indian cinema, particularly Tollywood, is experiencing significant growth in East Asian markets like Japan and Korea, ...

Japan has been a source of some of the greatest games, graphic novels, TV series, and, of course, movies ever made. Japanese cinema has produced countless cultural gems that have gone on to influence ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...