CULTURE
‘Cinderella Grey’ gallops past the other sports documen...
Mixing real horse-racing history with idol-pop fantasy, “Cinderella Grey” proves...
‘Brand New Landscape’ captures family dysfunction in a ...
In director Yuiga Danzuka’s first feature, Tokyo gleams with promise — but lonel...
Pieces fall perfectly into place in the reflective ‘The...
Reflective and heartfelt, Baku Kinoshita’s animated feature tells a story of sec...
Artist Ari Bayuaji materializes monsters from ocean pla...
From his series “Weaving the Ocean,” the demon Rangda is on display at Go for Ko...
Revamped Busan film festival turns 30 with expanded cin...
Since its inception, BIFF has been a launchpad for Asian cinema. This year, it g...
Nodoka Okisawa is carrying the baton for Seiji Ozawa in...
Japanese conductor Nodoka Okisawa embraces both tradition and renewal at a festi...
Architecture art exhibition highlights unsung industry ...
For only the second time in its 39-year history, the “Architecture in Perspectiv...
Tokyo film festival to open with Everest and close with...
Japan’s main movie event kicks off Oct. 27 with the true story of the first woma...
Finding jazz in J-pop: Patrick Bartley’s musical second...
The J-Music Ensemble leader translates Japanese culture into a classic American ...
The familiar is made surreal in ‘After the Quake’
Tsuyoshi Inoue’s feature reworks NHK’s four-part Haruki Murakami drama adaptatio...
‘Hero’s Island’: Okinawa-set epic is lavishly realized ...
Keisuke Otomo recreates postwar turmoil in rich detail that is sometimes more vi...
Tokyo film festival to open with Everest pioneer drama,...
Japan’s largest film festival will kick off with the true story of the first wom...
Yoko Tawada’s wandering trilogy concludes search for th...
In “Archipelago of the Sun,” the merry band of polyglot friends board a boat cro...
Aichi Triennale’s message from the world: Free Palestine
At Aichi Triennale 2025, Hoor Al Qasimi, the festival’s first foreign artistic d...
Why Japan’s most melancholic writer speaks to today’s y...
Osamu Dazai's works are enjoying a new boom of retranslations and readers 80 yea...
YouTuber Gigguk shifts from talking anime to making anime
Garnt Maneetapho, who runs the YouTube channel Gigguk, makes the jump from criti...
