Fans of the beloved Japanese anime and manga series “Yu Yu Hakusho” were treated to an exciting sneak peek of the upcoming live-action adaptation during Netflix’s global virtual event, Geeked Week, with the release of a teaser trailer and teaser art as well as revealing the rest of the cast members. In the teaser trailer,…
Chicago Japanese Film Collective— the first Japanese film festival in the Midwest The 3rd edition of the Festival is finally here! Festival Dates: June 22nd (Thurs) – July 1 (Sat) for 10 days Chicago, IL— The Chicago Japanese Film Collective, now entering its third year, is back with a lineup of carefully selected, powerful independent…
Ainu means “human” in Ainu language. This is exactly the pursuit of film director Naomi Mizoguchi who through her Ainu – Indigenous People of Japan — part of the 2022 edition of the Chicago Japan Film Collective — shares the humanity of this culture nestled in Hokkaido. The film craftily conducts this filmic experience through…
©Courtesy of Netflix Based on a novel by Japanese author Ko Shimjo, and directed by Hitoshi Ône, the new Netflix series Tokyo Swindlers explores the cutthroat world of land swindlers who operate below the radar in the Japanese capital. With an aim of acquiring valuable properties by deceptive means, the greedy crews go to extreme…
Synopsis : In 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken under the wing of a veteran detective…
Drama series The Journalist shares the same Japanese title “Shinbun Kisha” of the 2019 movie, that in turn was loosely based on the 2017 eponymous book by Isoko Mochizuki. The film received six Japan Academy Prize nominations and won three, including Picture of the Year, Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and…
A Japanese actor Ryohei Suzuki (40) will receive the Rising Star Asia Award at the 22nd New York Asian Film Festival 2023, it was announced on June 19, and Suzuki expressed his joy. The festival will be held from July 14 to 30 at the Lincoln Center in New York City, USA, and more than…
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