Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kô Shibasaki and Hirohito Honda in Battle Royale (2000) Perhaps no world cinema industry in the last few decades has had an effect ...

Critics Consensus: Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai adds an atypically restrained entry to the Takashi Miike filmography that loses little impact in favoring human drama over action. Synopsis: A samurai ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

A series at the Japan Society opening on April 5 further complicates the definition of the Japanese New Wave cinema, whose parameters are typically difficult to define. A series at the Japan Society ...

Adrift In Tokyo, or Tenten, is simply a unique film. Its mixture of offbeat humour, absurdity, sentimentality and stroll through Tokyo make it my top pick. I asked the film's co-star, Odagiri Joe, in ...

The usual suspects, as far as Japanese movies go, will often involve mentioning certain films directed by Akira Kurosawa (especially Ran, Seven Samurai, Rashomon, and High and Low), just about all ...

This article is more than 2 years old. House, directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi, is the most experimental film on this list. The horror-comedy follows a young girl and her friends as they journey to an ...

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