CULTURE
Japanese singer and actor Ayumi Ishida dies at 76
"Blue Light Yokohama," released in 1968, sold over 1 million copies.
Augmented reality artist Omega C navigates a precarious...
Just this year, XR art featured heavily in the digital art festival Dig Shibuya ...
‘A Samurai in Time’ wins top prize at Japan’s premier f...
This country’s answer to the Oscars also saw awards go to “Oppenheimer” and “Fac...
K-Ballet Tokyo marks 25 years of passion and perseverance
The dance company celebrates a milestone anniversary with an extended lineup inc...
The sci-fi satire 'Mickey 17' might be a classic — someday
Bong Joon-ho's latest dystopian film offers a brutal metaphor for societal inequ...
‘Ravens’ is a portrait of art, love and inner demons
Director Mark Gill brings the turbulent life of celebrated photographer Masahisa...
‘Escape’: Masao Adachi’s fugitive biopic salutes a kind...
The 85-year-old director keeps his revolutionary fire burning with a respectful ...
‘Nemurubaka: Hypnic Jerks’: Opposites come together wit...
“Baby Assassins” director Yugo Sakamoto swaps action for emotion in his coming-o...
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...
