Perhaps no world cinema industry in the last few decades has had an effect on Hollywood cinema quite like the imports of Japanese cinema. Since the industry’s golden age in the postwar 1950s, Japanese ...

The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme will present 26 Japanese features across U.K. venues, including acclaimed ...

Japan Society has announced the full lineup for the 18th edition of Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film at the organization's New York headquarters. The festival, now powered by title sponsor GU ...

Acclaimed Japanese stunt coordinator Kensuke Sonomura, who worked on the hilarious Baby Assassins trilogy of movies (and TV miniseries) drops his third film as a director (after Bad City, and Hydra) – ...

Japan Society and Metrograph will co-present Mikio Naruse: The World Betrays Us, a 30-film retrospective devoted to Naruse, the “fourth great” master of Japanese cinema, from May 9 through June 29. Co ...

Japan Society has announced the full lineup for the 18th edition of Japan Cuts: Festival of New Japanese Film at the organization’s New York headquarters. The festival, now powered by title sponsor GU ...

Directed by Lee Sang-il and selected as Japan’s 2026 Oscar submission for best international feature, the three-hour, kabuki-theater-set drama has defied expectations and reignited the world’s ...

The Development Bank of Japan’s investment in the Tokyo-based startup — launched at Cannes with backing from auteurs like Hirokazu Kore-eda and Takashi Miike — signals growing institutional support ...

America's two best film festivals dedicated to Asian cinema are happening in the same city at the same time — here's what to prioritize. For the second consecutive year, the two best Asian film ...

Portland is a summer city with a long fall. So while we don't have much similar to Japan's hanabi festivals—the word translates to "fireworks," and we have literally banned fireworks—Portlanders ...

This poster of Japanese anime film “Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc” is provided by Sony Pictures. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap) SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Yonhap) -- Japanese anime film “Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc” is ...