With mainstream movies increasingly reliant on CGI and green screen, indie cinema has to get more creative with its “special effects.” As a result...
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“If we can hear the faint voice of truth, we can live together.” After the catastrophic nuclear disaster in the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, not...
With a minuscule budget of 700,000 JPY (about $6,300), Jun Tanaka attempts to present a new take on the ghost (horror) story genre. The film premiered at Osaka...
Writer/director Hirobumi Watanabe is a relative newcomer to Japanese cinema, with his first film “And the Mud Ship Sails Away” released in 2013...
Seven years after her autobiographical debut, “The Duckling”, Sayaka One returns to the seat of the movie director (and editor and...
Shinobu Terajima, one of the most renowned Japanese actresses, will receive the Nippon Honor Award at the 18th Nippon Connection Film Festival in Frankfurt am...
The program of the 18th Japanese Film Festival Nippon Connection in Frankfurt am Main is complete! From May 29 to June 3, 2018 the audience can discover more...