Not to be confused with the American remake of the same name, Shall We Dance? is a rom-com about a middle-aged accountant who signs up for dance classes to escape his mundane life. Directed by ...

From the record-breaking success of *Kokuho* to heartfelt romance in anime and bold social commentary in cinema, Japanese storytelling in 2025 and 2026 is thriving. Upcoming anime finales and fresh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The film tells the story of Ryōsuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda in a star-making performance), a worker at a small factory who makes money ...

"Our generation is hopeless.... What are you laughing about?" Film Movement has debuted the official US trailer for an indie film from Japan titled Happyend, made by filmmaker Neo Sora as his first ...

Best known as an actress, Tanaka was also one of her country’s first female filmmakers, and her six features are now ...

Kokuho is a colourful, lengthy epic, spanning five decades and running almost three hours, set in the world of kabuki – Japan ...

Japan has been a source of some of the greatest games, graphic novels, TV series, and, of course, movies ever made. Japanese cinema has produced countless cultural gems that have gone on to influence ...

Take a crash course in Japanese film over the next four days with Focus on Japanese Cinema, a program of twelve diverse movies from the Land of the Rising Sun. “I think, locally, no one’s ever really ...

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 ...