CULTURE
Grief ebbs and flows between two tragedies in 'The Plac...
Mai Ishizawa’s debut novel, which won one of the three Akutagawa Prizes awarded ...
‘A Bad Summer’: A scorching drama of simmering rage and...
Hideo Jojo pushes into forbidden territory and navigates the darker currents of ...
Ichiko Aoba’s intimate sonic fantasy born from dreams
The singer-songwriter turns her subconscious into songs about the natural world ...
‘May You Have Delicious Meals’: The ugly taste of offic...
The English-language debut of Junko Takase’s Akutagawa Prize-winning novel serve...
Can a meal make you besties? ‘K-foodie meets J-foodie’ ...
The new Netflix show pairs a Korean crooner and a Japanese food icon for a cross...
‘The Gesuidouz’ flips the bird at viewers
Kenichi Ugana’s horror-fixated punk-rock slacker comedy is one of the director’s...
Crowds shouldn’t stop you from seeing the hit Ryuichi S...
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo’s “Seeing Sound, Hearing Time” has far exceeded...
‘Reveal’: Kumi Takiuchi’s performance stuns in one-woma...
Kazuyoshi Okuyama’s powerful drama about a sex worker baring her soul features i...
Small-budget sex worker romp 'Anora' triumphs at Oscars
Sean Baker's dark comedy scooped up five awards including best picture at this y...
South Korean fans soak up nostalgia with vintage Japane...
It has been decades since "Choudenshi Bioman" was last on TV, but its stories of...
Taiwan comics on the rise: Local storytellers, global a...
A supportive ecosystem and eager audiences — both domestic and global — are boos...
‘Demon City’: Live-action manga adaptation is ultra-vio...
Seiji Tanaka’s Netflix film about a former hit man determined to avenge his fami...
Actor Gene Hackman and wife found dead alongside dog at...
A statement from the sheriff said deputies had found the 95-year-old actor and A...
Jose Ando's rapid rise from first pages to the Akutagaw...
Just three years after dedicating himself to writing, the author won Japan's top...
Oscar-nominated documentaries put Japan under the micro...
Shiori Ito’s “Black Box Diaries” and Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s “Instruments of a Beati...
Vatican thriller 'Conclave' wins top prize in SAG Award...
"Conclave" surprises with a SAG Award win for best cast, suggesting it may have ...
