©GKIDS The 49th Japan Academy Awards ceremony was held on March 13 at the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, International Hall Pamir. The film ”Kokuho” won 10 awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Leading Actor. During the ceremony, Chieko Baisho of “TOKYO Taxi,” who was selected for Best Actress, reminisced about the 1978…
©Courtesy of GKIDS Kokuho : Nagasaki, 1964 — After the death of his father, the leader of a yakuza gang, 14-year-old Kikuo is taken under the wing of a famous Kabuki actor. Alongside Shunsuke, the actor’s only son, he decides to dedicate himself to this traditional form of theatre. For decades, the two young men…
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…
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