Shiguéhiko Hasumi — mentor to Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Ryusuke Hamaguchi — will present the Japan Society retrospective, which is ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Co-organized with The Japan Foundation, New York, the two-part series will ...

After decades of political sensitivities and threats kept it from screens, Schrader’s Yukio Mishima biopic, considered by ...

Update October 1, 2025: A year after Schrader thought that “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” would screen at the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival, the director is finally getting his wish. The ...

Japan has picked Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s Cloud as the country’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Oscars. The film will premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this ...

To mark its 90th anniversary, Japan’s leading post-production company is shifting into original content with a five-year funding program aimed at supporting new talent. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau ...

Japan’s Agency for Cultural affairs, Friday, announced the first young filmmakers to receive support under its new Film Frontier Global Networking Program. The agency explained that Film Frontier will ...

After acquiring the U.S. rights at TIFF earlier this year, GKids will release Japan's smash hit drama "Kokuho" in a limited ...