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Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue has received a 4K UHD remastered edition and the movie is currently running in theaters across US and Canada.

Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away is one of his best works and was a hit in 2001, but Satoshi Kon's Millennium Actress is ...

When Toshitsune Tamashiro was young and closeted in 1980s Japan, Tokyo's Shinjuku Ni-chome gay district was a haven. Now he runs a bar there, and has fought to keep the district going during the ...

When two cultural forces collide, the effect can be nothing short of earth-shaking. That’s certainly the case with the epic ...

The Tokyo International Film Festival kicked off on Saturday with live screenings and a host of coronavirus prevention measures to ensure the show could go on.

Sincere apologies to Timothée Chalamet and Alexander Skarsgård. The festival’s unassuming artistic director, Dennis Lim, is ...

As well as an otherworldly $36,000 Custom Shop Stratocaster with a Godzilla roar button, two Made in Japan models are also packing some flashy new tech ...

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang headlines Tokyo market's 'Morte Cucina' co-production seminar, as the event adds a China Pavilion and ...

Neo Sora, director of Happyend (2024), spoke to the Reader about Japanese history, fascism, and how near the film's “near ...

The 90s were the decade of transition on multiple fronts. With the arrival of the internet, the transition in culture ...