The fantasy comedy picture A Samurai In Time, directed by Jun’ichi Yasuda, focuses on the time travel experience of Kosaka Shinzaemon (Makiya Yamaguchi). He is an Aizu samurai from the Edo era, who is struck by lightning and is transported to the film studios of 2007 Japan. It will take some time for this 19th…
The Television Academy has released its list of primetime Emmy nominations for 2025. The final awards will be presented in a ceremony on September 14 at the Peacock Theatre in Los Angeles. The event will be broadcast live on CBS-TV and streamed on Paramount. In the drama categories, The White Lotus, Severance, and The Last of Us garnered the most nominations,…
©Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures Magnolia Pictures has debuted the trailer and poster for director Bill Banowsky’s “A SAVAGE ART: THE LIFE & CARTOONS OF PAT OLIPHANT“, a timely documentary about the renowned Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist who bravely took on presidents, popes and the American corporate class with his mighty pen. The film recently…
The horror film written and directed by Yaguchi Shinobu presents the filmmaker in a new light. The Japanese director, specialised in feel-good “zero to hero” films, switches to an eerie, creepy and gruesome type of storytelling. Dollhouse tells the story of Yoshie (Nagasawa Masami) and Tadahiko (Seto Koji), who are married and have a 5-year-old…
©Courtesy of Nintendo It appears that Nintendo Studios LLC and Universal Pictures are planning to make a feature-length film based on the classic Donkey Kong video game. Over the past few months, the two studios jointly filed for copyright protection for the project—a routine procedure that does not necessarily guarantee the film will go into…
©Dominic McLaughlin as Harry Potter. Aidan Monaghan/HBO Warner Bros. has begun production on HBO’s ‘Harry Potter’ TV show, which marks the long-awaited return of J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 concluded its journey on the big screen nearly 14 years ago when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part…
@Courtesy of Kino Films There are a few times when the very first few images of a movie are able to set the tone of it. This is the case of this psychological melodrama directed by Kichitarô Negishi. The beauty of a red umbrella passing through an aisle on a rainy morning. The simplicity of…
©Courtesy of Showtime Searchlight Pictures will release the Japan-set dramedy Rental Family on November 21, The Wrap is reporting. The movie stars Brendan Fraser in his first leading role since he won the Best Actor Oscar in 2023 for The Whale. Fraser plays a down-on-his-luck actor living in Tokyo in the upcoming film. The protagonist take…
©Courtesy of Toho Toho has unveiled the official trailer for “Exit 8“, which will be a Japanese movie that is based on the recent cult hit indie video game. The film depicts a man who is trapped in a sterile subway passageway that is endless. He sets out to find ‘Exit 8’ – the sole…
©Courtesy of Toei Princess Chao is not exactly the “Little Mermaid,” at least not the one you might recognize. For one thing, she usually presents herself to the outside world as a giant fish. That is just how merpeople look when they are out of the water—unless they feel sufficiently safe to reveal their true…
The prodigious documentary directed by Amélie Ravalec focuses on a time of profound social change in the Land of the Rising Sun: the Sixties. Japanese Avant-Garde Pioneers portrays how the turbulent times of the postwar era inspired an artistic explosion across the Nipponic nation, with the emergence of a revolutionary scene of avant-garde artists who…
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