“Perfect Days” is another drama by German Wim Wenders that picked up at the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and Best Actor for Koji Yakusho. It became the first Japanese movie directed by a non ...

There's a great assortment of movies releasing this weekend, including the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man & Den of Thieves 2: Pantera starring Gerard Butler. Celebs houses burned in L.A. fires ...

The Kansai Startup Academia Coalition (KSAC) brings together participants from academia, industry and government to support university-based startups in Japan’s dynamic Kansai region.

Two fermentation experts break down everything you need to know about this centuries-old ingredient. “You could say koji mould is Japan’s national mould,” says Yoko Nakazawa, a fermentation expert who ...

Legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto talks about the newly opened Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, Japan and how it’s the most ‘Un-Nintendo-like’ thing Nintendo has ever created. From ...

Japanese history is filled with epic tales of warriors, but few have stood the test of time as well as the story of samurai Miyamoto Musashi — and his duel with Sasaki Kojirō, one of Japan’s greatest ...

Following The Film Stage’s collective top 50 films of 2024, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists. By way of introduction, I think I said most of ...

Kerala’s capital city will be one of the five stopovers for legendary German filmmaker Wim Wenders during his maiden Indian visit in February. The visit is part of ‘Wim Wenders – King of the ...

The first thing one notices, looking at the sci-fi movie genre as it exists on HBO Max, is that there’s an unusual level of genuine curation involved here. The overall scope of the service might ...

SAN FRANCISCO--“Shogun,” a historical drama series produced by and starring Hiroyuki Sanada, leads the list of nominees for the 76th Emmy Awards with 25 nominations, including Best Drama Series.

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