(C) 2024 Cloud Production Committee. Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Cloud has been officially selected as Japan’s submission for Best International Feature Film in the 97th Academy Awards competition. The film follows the fate of a young man named Yoshi Ryosuke (played by Masaki Suda) who makes a living buying and selling merchandise online using the pseudonym of…
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…
Japanese filmmakers Hirokazu Kore-eda was a big winner at last night’s Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. For the second consecutive year, Kore-eda captured the Best Director title, this time for his latest feature, Monster. The prolific director had won the prize a year ago for Broker, a Korean-language film. Discussing his most recent award,…
Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist has won the top prize at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which closed today. In announcing the award, the jury stated: “Subtle, cinematic and underscored by fully realized performances, Hamaguchi’s assured drama supersedes the sum of its parts. online pharmacy buy rybelsus online with best prices…
@Evil Does Not Exist Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the North American distribution rights to Evil Does Not Exist, a new feature by Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi.Hamaguchi’s Oscar-winning 2021 film Drive My Car had also been a Sideshow/Janus property. In announcing the deal, the two distributors said in a joint statement: “Hamaguchi is a…
@Hidetoshi Nishijima Japanese superstar Hidetoshi Nishijima has signed up with the New York-based Creative Artists Agency (CAA) for representation, Variety has reported. The 52-year-old Nishijima starred in Drive My Car, the 2021 film that captured an Academy Award for best international feature film, which received Oscar nominations in four categories. The actor has several other…
After director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” garnered every prestigious critic awards and the Oscar last year, Japan hopes to repeat its success with Chie Hayakawa’s debut feature film, “Plan 75” which government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be euthanized to remedy an aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing,…
The 75th British Academy of Film Awards were presented Sunday. London’s Royal Albert Hall held an in-person event after going virtual in 2021 due to the pandemic. With Oscar front-runner The Power of the Dog hanging on to win the big two prizes of the night—best picture and director Jane Campion—Dune cleaned up some of the categories…
MoviePass, the infamous subscription-based movie ticketing service that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in early 2020, is set to relaunch this summer. The company is set to revamp its business model by allowing its users to roll their credits over month to month, and also trade or share their credits with other users, Variety is…
Nominations for the 94th Academy Awards were announced this morning by actors Leslie Jordan and Tracee Ellis Ross in twenty-three categories. The overall nominations leader is The Power of the Dog with 12 bids, including four acting nominations. Next up was Dune with ten bids, though it missed an expected mention for director Denis Villeneuve,…
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