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Poetry, history and performance entwine in Daisydoze’s ...
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From FX trading to plant people, fall anime gets weird
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Smile-Up’s president announces he will step down
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‘Numb’ builds a bleak vision of a troubled boyhood
Inspired by director Takuya Uchiyama's own experiences, "Numb" is an unflinching...
‘Shadow Work’ plumbs the depths of domestic violence — ...
Ryuhei Yoshino's "Shadow Work" is a morally fraught revenge thriller about victi...
The unmaking of Friday Night Plans
Once a rising star of sleek R&B, Friday Night Plans has spent the past few years...
When infinity becomes finite: How will Yayoi Kusama’s d...
There will be no new Kusamas, but rarity is another matter. Her death exposes th...
Woe is marriage: ‘Until the T-Shirt Dries’ is a meander...
A melodramatic narrative with a ruminative core, the TBS series' constituent par...
