©Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Check out more of our YouTube Channel. Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program…
@Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures Phillip Vandarploeug is a husky American expat residing in a Tokyo apartment that qualifies as small, even by local standards. He ekes out a subsistence living working the absolute lowest acting jobs on the dramatic food chain. If anyone understands life’s disappointments, it would be him. Consequently, he quickly displays the…
©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…
The ACA Cinema Project Japan features the film Ripples, written and directed by Naoko Ogigami. The film focuses on the delicate phase of a woman, as middle-age becomes the time to make a balance of her life. Yoriko Sudo (Mariko Tsutsui) finds comfort in the Green Life Water Society (Ryokumei-kai), based on the new religious…
The line-up for the 2023 edition of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film includes the film Wandering, also released with the title The Wandering Moon. The movie directed by Lee Sang-il is based on the novel Rurou no Tsuki by Yuu Nagira, winner of 17th Japan Booksellers’ Award in 2020. Fate brings together two…
Synopsis : A poignant story of love, loss, self-sacrifice and discovery, Daishi Matsunaga’s heralded new film is inspired by the seminal semi-autobiographical novel by Makoto Takayama. The first Japanese production with both an LGBTQ+ inclusive director and an intimacy choreographer, Egoist features two of Japan’s biggest movie stars in very compromising positions. Suffused with delicacy…
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