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Pachinko — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV+ : Starring Lee Minho, Minha Kim, Anna Sawai, Yuh-Jung Youn

©Courtesy of Apple TV+ Apple TV+  has dropped a first trailer for the second season of its award-winning and critically hailed, epic hit drama Pachinko. Told in three languages — Korean, Japanese, and English — and consisting of eight, one-hour episodes, season two of Pachinko will premiere globally on Friday, August 23 with one episode, followed…

Japan Cuts : The Making of a Japanese / Exclusive Interview with Director Ema Ryan Yamazaki

©Courtesy of Japan Cuts The Making of a Japanese : Located in one of Tokyo’s sprawling suburbs, Tsukado is one of the largest public elementary schools in Japan with nearly 1,000 students. In the nation’s unique educational system, children are tasked to run their own school in order to teach communal values and how to play…

Japan Cuts / Retake : Nakano Taps Into Universal Teen Attitudes & Neuroses

©Courtesy of Japan Cuts  There is less parental supervision in this film than you see in an average John Hughes movie. Perhaps as a result, these teens hardly spend any time working or studying during their summer break—maybe a little, but not a lot. However, they are not idle slackers. In fact, they keep quite…

NYAFF : Operation Undead Entertains with Blood and Existential Drama

Courtesy of © 2024 Infocusasia Co., Ltd. The New York Asian Film Festival 2024 is hosting the World Premiere of Operation Undead, a zombie-movie from Thailand that offers a new and very interesting take on the genre. Set during World War II, the story talks about a group of soldiers dislocated in a beautiful and…

FLC Announces RaMell Ross’s NICKEL BOYS as Opening Night of the 62nd New York Film Festival

Film at Lincoln Center announces RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys as Opening Night of the 62nd New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Hall on September 27. The adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. Secure tickets with Festival Passes, limited quantities on sale now….

Emily in Paris: Season 4 Part 1 | Official Trailer | Netflix-Tudum

©Courtesy of Netflix It’s time for Emily Cooper to update her language-learning app, because our favorite American in Paris is headed for a few new European destinations in Emily in Paris Season 4. She’ll do it in two parts, which will be released in August and September, and now you can see brand-new photos and the…

MY SPY THE ETERNAL CITY : Exclusive Interview with Actor Ken Jeong and Actress Kristen Schaal

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Kendrick Kang-Joh Jeong is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He rose to prominence for playing Leslie Chow in The Hangover film series (2009–2013) and Ben Chang in the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015). He created, wrote and produced the ABC sitcom Dr. Ken…

NYAFF : Art Imitates Life in Chong Keat Aun’s ‘Snow in Midsummer’

©Courtesy of New York Asian Film Festival  Snow in Midsummer, a film by Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun, is among the works being screened at the 2024 New York Asian Film Festival. It had earlier premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and won the award for best Chinese-language film in the Young Cinema Competition…

Great Absence Review: Lost Memory and Japanese Excellence

I’ll remember it all. Though I won’t recall it. The words echo in the theater and a man’s androgynous face makes expressive grimaces on a large screen. In front of it, the same man, long haired with sideboards, moves down in fright, like he’s detaching himself. Just before, a police squad has arrived at a house…

Twisters Video Review by Edward Douglas

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Twisters: Daisy Edgar-Jones stars as Kate Carter, a former storm chaser haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado during her college years who now studies storm patterns on screens safely in New York City. She is lured back to the open plains…

Japan Cuts: ‘Shunga: The Lost Japanese Erotica,’ Explores The Steamy Nipponic Art

The 2024 Japan Cuts line-up features an impressive documentary on the past, present and future of sexually explicit art prints known as shunga. Director Junko Hirata has been exceptionally meticulous in bringing together the human stories that mark this Nipponic art form, along with a chronicle of the preservation of these works and public display in…