ENTERTAINMENT
Kitano Takeshi: The Complete Ranked Filmography – Part 2
We continue with our retrospective ranking of all of the films of Kitano Takeshi - perhaps the most famous entertainer in Japan,…
japanese film
ENTERTAINMENT
ENTERTAINMENT
Kings of the US Box Office: Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron and Godzilla Minus One
Japanese film is having a moment in North America, as Studio Ghibli's The Boy and the Heron and Godzilla Minus One take…
ENTERTAINMENT
“Monster”: Is New Film Director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s “Rashomon?”
Kore-eda Hirokazu is back with his first Japanese-language film in five years - a rumination on our limited perception of the lives…
LGBTQ
The Fish with One Sleeve: A Short Film on a Japanese Trans Experience
The Fish With One Sleeve, by director Tsuyoshi Shoji, is a film about a Japanese trans woman returning to her hometown to…
ENTERTAINMENT
How Shin-Godzilla Satirizes Japan’s Bureaucracy
Why 2016's Shin Godzilla appealed to so many in Japan - and why its criticism of bureaucratic red tape was largely lost…