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…
@Dsiney The Oscar winning film, Parasite actor Song Kang-ho is set to star in Uncle Samsik, Disney+’s ambitious period drama from South Korean writer/director Shin Yeon-shick. Disney+ has confirmed that it will launch globally this year, with Hulu doing the same in the U.S. The series set in 1960’s South Korea, it follows Kim San,…
@The Oprah Conversation Former United States President Barack Obama isn’t just a great leader, but also he has done great works through his film production, Higher Ground by producing three remarkable films that his label helped produce this year – the acclaimed Colman Domingo-led biopic “Rustin,” the Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali-led end of world…
@Photo by Cory Sherwood, Courtesy of Well Go USA Entertainment Synopsis : When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong. Discovering that a teacher is responsible, she storms into the school demanding to know what’s going on. But as the story unfolds through the eyes of…
A 4K restoration of Moving, the classic 1993 film by the late Shinji Somai, will be seen in select U.S. and Canadian theaters in 2024, thanks to Cinema Guild, which has just acquired North American distribution rights from MK2 Films. Earlier this year, Cinema Guild had released two other films by Somai: P.P. Rider (1983)…
Two Japanese filmmakers who have made waves have sparked conversations with arthouse filmgoers. They have already prompted some of the most interesting debates on the festival circuit at Cannes, Venice, Toronto and now New York. Both high-profile, award-winning Japanese directors Hirokazu Kore-eda and Ryusuke Hamguchi have posed questions to their audiences through their film titles:…
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…
JAPAN SOCIETY ANNOUNCES FULL LINEUP FOR THE 16TH ANNUAL JAPAN CUTS: FESTIVAL OF NEW JAPANESE FILM North America’s largest Japanese film festival presents two weeks of contemporary movies from Japan, including opening film THE FIRST SLAM DUNK directed by Takehiko Inoue, centerpiece film UNDER THE TURQUOISE SKY directed by KENTARO, closing film THE THREE SISTERS…
Recently cinema has delivered several films where elderly characters express their support for euthanasia worldwide, from The Netherlands with Pink Moon, to India with It’s Time To Go and Japan with Plan 75. The latter, directed by Chie Hayakawa is set in a near-to-futuristic landscape in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this context,…
When Chiaki Yanagimoto first discovered films as a kid, she was smitten with the movie making bug. As she explained, “I’m originally from Japan, and I grew up in a very small town where there weren’t many places for entertainment. My mother used to rent movies in VHS regularly from the only video rental store…
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