Hirokazu Koreeda Opens Up About His Tender Coming-of-Age Drama ‘Look Back’: “I Was Tearful the Entire Time I Made This Film”

The live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s wildly popular manga features remarkable performances from its young leads ...

Tokyo Film Festival Adds New Initiatives, Kashiko Kawakita Award to Honor Women in Cinema

Honoree Hata, is an acclaimed Japanese critic who fostered filmic links between her country and France. The now 95-year-old ...

Tokyo Film Festival Adds Nippon Cinema Now Competition, Crosscut Asia+ Section, New Award Honoring Women in Film

The Tokyo Film Festival adds a Nippon Cinema Now competition, the Crosscut Asia+ section and the Kawakita Kashiko Award for ...

North Korea adds its 2nd naval destroyer as US, South Korea and Japan hold military exercise

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un commissioned his second naval destroyer and called for building a more reliable nuclear ...

VOX POPULI: Earthly dramas of a cosmonaut adrift, reporter’s jaunt into space

A U.S. podcast series bears the title “The Last Soviet.” An eight-part work of nonfiction released some three years ago, it ...