(C) Honobu Yonezawa/KADOKAWA (C) 2026 “kokurojo””(The Samurai and the Prisoner) Film Production Committee (C) Kazuko Wakayama Total sales have exceeded 600,000 copies! Winner of both the 166th Naoki Prize and the 12th Yamada Futaro Prize, and ranked No. 1 on “Kono Mystery ga Sugoi!”—Honobu Yonezawa’s masterpiece has become the first work in history to sweep…
©Courtesy of The Cannes Film Festival’s official site When Thierry Frémaux faced the prospect of Cannes without Hollywood films – he was waiting for Steven Spielberg‘s “Disclosure Day,” which Universal chose to exclude – he knew that while the usual festival dates would produce many excellent films, they might not have a significant impact across…
©Courtesy of Bitters End Check out more of Our Youtube Channel 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧 is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York. 👉https://iffmusa.com/ A winner of numerous awards…
©Courtesy of Neon Somehow, you feel the title is almost unjustified, the rescue in Na Hong-Jin‘s “Hope” appears to be compromised before the disaster fully reveals itself. Communication has collapsed in a remote South Korean village, and a creature is nearby, resulting in human panic, which often turns fear into something messier, more violent, and…
©Courtesy of The Cannes Film Festival Check out more of Our YouTube Channel 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧 is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York. 👉https://iffmusa.com/ A winner of…
©Courtesy of Film Movement The Film Movement has dropped a new trailer for a highly anticipated Japanese Oscar winning director Chie Hayakawa’s latest outing, “Renoir.” The film takes place in suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift – her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the…
©Courtesy of The Cannes Film Festival Today, the 2026 Cannes Film Festival lineup was revealed, with Cristian Mungiu and Hirokazu Kore-eda as well as two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and veteran American indie director Ira Sachs as the main names to debut new works. The competition lineup features a plethora of auteurs with a…
©Courtesy of Neon Check out more of Our Youtube Channel Adriano Ercolani Profile Italian Film Critic and TV Author living in New York since 2011. Critics Choice Association member. Graduated in History of Cinema in Rome, he works as a freelance correspondent for some of the most important Italian outlets like Hollywood Reporter Italy, Comingsoon.it,…
©Courtesy of Neon Neon revealed the trailer of “It Was Just An Accident“, which is a film that was directed by Jafar Panahi and won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The distributor has determined that the release date in New York will be October 15 and in Los Angeles will be…
©Courtesy of MK2 Films Love On Trial : Mai, a rising J-Pop idol, is finally about to have her big break when she unexpectedly falls in love. But in a treacherous industry where young singers must maintain an image of flawless purity, love is forbidden. When her relationship is exposed, Mai’s agency takes drastic action,…
Check out more of our YouTube Channel 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧 is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York. 👉https://iffmusa.com/ A winner of numerous awards as a director and…
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