(C)2024 CINEFRANCE STUDIOS – KADOKAWA CORPORATION – TARANTULA The scenes from the film “Le chemin du serpent”(“Serpent’s Path”) starring Kou Shibasaki have been released, which is helmed by “Wife of a Spy” Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa. This is Kurosawa’s first attempt at a self-remake of his masterpiece suspense film “Serpent’s Path (1998),” which has been remade…
Master filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata) won the Silver Lion (Best Director) at the Venice Film Festival for this riveting, gorgeously crafted, old-school Hitchockian thriller shot in stunning 8K. Synopsis : The year is 1940 in Kobe, on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Local merchant and amateur filmmaker Yusaku…
© 2012 – Pierre Grise Productions French director Leos Carax’s next project, It’s Not Me, is an autobiographical film that will star Denis Lavant, who has been the leading man in several of his previous movies, including Boy Meets Girl, Bad Blood, Lovers on the Bridge, and Holy Motors. It’s also been rumored that Adam Driver…
Her Love Boils Bathwater © 2016 “Her Love Boils Bathwater” Film Partners “FAMILY PORTRAIT: JAPANESE FAMILY IN FLUX” FILM SERIES SHOWCASES COMPLEX FAMILY BONDS OF THE MODERN JAPANESE FAMILY IN THE 8TH EDITION OF THE ACA CINEMA PROJECT Presented by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of…
Yui Kiyohara studied under directors Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Atsuhiko Suwa. Her first feature film “Our House,” shot as a graduation project for the graduate school of Tokyo University of the Arts, won the Grand Prix at the Pia Film Festival 2017, and she has received a string of invitations from abroad, including the Berlin International…
Actor Takumi Saito directs this film adaptation of Rinko Kozu’s horror suspense novel “Sweet My Home,” which won the 13th Shosetsu Gendai Feature Film Newcomer Award in 2018. Synopsis : Kenji Kiyosawa, a sports instructor, buys the house of his dreams for his beloved wife and young daughter. The house, which heats the entire house…
@Hidetoshi Nishijima Japanese superstar Hidetoshi Nishijima has signed up with the New York-based Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for representation, Variety has reported. The 52-year-old Nishijima starred in Drive My Car, the 2021 film that captured an Academy Award for best international feature film, which received Oscar nominations in four categories. The actor has several other…
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun © 1981 Kadokawa Corp. New York, March 22, 2023—Japan Society is pleased to announce the 2023 Globus Film Series, Rites of Passage: The Films of Shinji Somai. The first North American retrospective on one of Japan’s most neglected auteurs, this series will spotlight director Shinji Somai (1948-2001), who while widely…
Riverside Mukolitta © 2021 ”Riverside Mukolitta” Film Partners THE FEMALE GAZE: WOMEN FILMMAKERS FROM JAPAN CUTS AND BEYOND Selected by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society THE FEMALE GAZE: WOMEN FILMMAKERS FROM JAPAN CUTS AND BEYOND Selected by Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society November 11-20, 2022…
Ox-Head Village is a 2022 Japan-Japanese language movie, directed by Takashi Shimizu and written by Daisuke Hosaka, Takashi Shimizu. Synopsis : In a so-called “spirit video”, Kanon (Kôki) is astonished to see a high-school girl who looks exactly like her. Exclusive Interview with Director Takashi Shimizu Q: What kind of place is Tsubono Kosen (Mineral…
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