The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme returns from January 2020 with a theme of “Happiness is A State of Mind: Joy and Despair in Japanese Cinema”...
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Satoko Yokohama's life and times of a supporting actor who struggles to shake off his act.
Winner of the Cannes Special Jury Prize in 1960, and of the Best Foreign Film Award from Golden Globes, “Odd Obsession” is one of the most...
The “obsession” with the 80's never actually ceased in the 21st century, and Japan could not be an exception, with “Initiation Love”...
The UK's largest festival of Japanese cinema is back for its 17th edition under the concept of ‘happiness'. Happiness, though universal in its importance, is...
One of the most celebrated films of 2016, Ryota Nakano's second and last (until now) film won a number of awards, including ones for its female protagonists...
Hideki Takeuchi seems to be making a career out of people jumping into the real world from another “dimension”, and after the two “Thermae...
Films about awkward, immature adults that seem to have no romantic future whatsoever can be found in abundance in Japanese cinema. Masahide Ichii, however...
Based on Mahokaru Numata's homonymous mystery novel, which sold over 250,000 copies worldwide, “Yurigokoro” is a mystery film that seems to...
“Papa no Obento wa Sekai-Ichi” is based on a Twitter feed that went viral about a year ago (in 2016), and Fukatsu said in an email interview that he came upon...