Miyazaki Hayao’s highly anticipated new film is less than two months out from release. Now Ghibli says there won’t be any trailers before the lights dim and the film begins playing!
“Suzume” has been another major hit for popular anime director Shinkai Makoto. See where it stacks up in both Japan and the world at large.
The major streaming service for Studio Ghibli films in Russia is losing rights to the library after May. Will fans go back to pirating?
Kinji Fukasaku’s 1970s gangster movies upended decades of depictions of the yakuza and held up a mirror to Japanese society at the same time.
Director Anno Hideaki is back again for his third live-action retelling of a classic Tokusatsu franchise. How does Shin Kamen Rider fare?
Controversy has erupted in online Japanese spaces over photographs of visitors to the newly-opened Ghibli Park simulating assault on underage film characters.
Selfie sticks are now ubiquitous. But did you know that the first one appeared on the scene in Japan way back in 1983?
Shinkai Makoto, famed director of Your Name and more, is back with yet another breathtakingly beautiful anime film. How does Suzume stack up?
David Leitch’s ‘Bullet Train’ is the latest in a long line of Hollywood films to portray ‘weird Japan.’ But is it any good?
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