Jo Shishido (1933–2020), known as "Ace no Jo," was active during the golden age of Nikkatsu action films in the 1950s. On television, in addition to dramas, he displayed rare talent as a comedian in ...

The glittering image, taken by the European Space Agency’s Euclid telescope, heralds a new age of planetary discovery The dazzling sight of more than 60m stars at the heart of Earth’s galaxy has been ...

EXCLUSIVE: Japan’s Nikkatsu is launching sales of Jeremias Nyangoen’s Black Coffee, with Indonesian stars Reza Rahadian and Sha Ine Febriyanti playing a blind couple longing for a child. Inspired by a ...

For decades, astronomers were only able to study the universe's very first stars using theoretical models. Now, observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed what may be the ...

See our editorial staff's updating list for the greatest artists from the past year of pop stardom, rolling out throughout January. By Andrew Unterberger For the last four years, we’ve counted down ...

Every night before bedtime, I take my dogs outside to do their doggy business, letting them run around in the yard on the eastern side of my house. I live under very dark skies in rural Virginia, and ...

For years, astronomers have been on the hunt for the first generation of stars, primordial relics of the early universe. And now they may have just found them. Ari Visbal from the University of Toledo ...

The Sun of the Showa era, the peerless film star Yujiro Ishihara, appeared in 89 Nikkatsu films, including cameos. As many heroines as there were films graced the screen. The genres were wide-ranging, ...

Long-established film company Nikkatsu announced on March 3 that it has established NK Animation, a new company that will handle Nikkatsu's animation-related business, as part of Nikkatsu's ...

See our editorial staff's list for the greatest artists from an all-time year in pop stardom, rolling out throughout December. By Andrew Unterberger For the last three years at Billboard, our ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Nikkatsu, the venerable Japanese studio which is representing “Cloud,” the latest film by Kurosawa Kiyoshi, has added a quartet of new titles to its sales lineup, in time for TIFFCOM the rights market ...