@Courtesy of FX FX’s “Shōgun” is adding more characters to its season two cast. Ren Meguro, a Japanese singer and actor, is now joining the next chapter of the multi-Emmy Award-winning series, which will be produced in Vancouver in January for the new season. Meguro, a pop singer who is a member of Snow Man’s…
@Courtesy of Netflix Thanks to the reforms of the Meiji Restoration, being a ronin (a masterless samurai, like Toshiro Mifune in Yojimbo) no longer looked so bad to old school warriors following the Bushido code. Even ronin had a level of status the new government denied the samurai, now called Shizoku. They lost their honor…
©Courtesy of Netflix The era of swords has come to an end, but the battle for survival is just beginning. In “Last Samurai Standing,” 292 fallen samurai — facing poverty, a pandemic, and a new regime that has rendered them relics — are lured into a violent game called Kodoku, in which the last competitor…
©Courtesy of Neon While they’re so many film makers who have had careers filled with good films for prolonged periods, it’s still a rarity to create their best works of art further into their careers. Known for some of the early aughts most inventive and brilliant films, Park Chan-wook might have just dropped his masterpiece…
©Courtesy of GKIDS An isolated scream of personal despair can ultimately become the voice of a generation that’s contending with the nature of their existence. The anguish felt in the reverberating cry of the young heroine in the fantasy anime movie, Angel’s Egg, echoes the crisis of faith many adolescents face as they come of…
@Courtesy of NYFF Winner of the Jury Special Prize at the last Cannes Film Festival, the visionary tale directed by Bi Gan lands at the New York Film Festival as one of the most innovative feature-films seen in the 2025 edition. Conceived as a science fiction movie, Resurrection is set in a future where mankind…
Film At Lincoln Center (aka FilmLinc) has regularly been putting together series focusing on films from all parts of the world, but one of its great series that got waylaid by COVID was the annual look at horror and genre films. “Scary Movie” is back after five years away, and if you’re a horror buff,…
©Is This Thing On? Courtesy: Jason McDonald/Searchlight Pictures Film at Lincoln Center announces Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? as the Closing Night selection of the 63rd New York Film Festival, making its world premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, October 10, with Cooper and members of the cast in attendance. Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership…
Japanese cinema has a long and very important tradition of period drama movies. The legendary Akira Kurosawa was an absolute master in this specific kind of movies, realizing masterpieces like Rashomon (1950), Seven Samurai (1954) and Ran (1985), for which he obtained an Academy Award nomination as best director. Samurai Fury (Muromachi Outsiders) clearly belongs…
Netflix has commissioned a live-action adaptation of Solo Leveling, the popular South Korean fantasy web novel and webtoon. After securing the rights to the anime franchise, the streamer cast up-and-coming actor Byeon Woo-seok in the television series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Byeon, who’s one of Korea’s most in-demand young stars, has long been a fan-favorite…
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