A shot-for-shot reimagining of the opening credits and climax of Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953). Re-setting the scene in Los Angeles and recasting Noriko and Kyoko with two Japanese actors ...

The Tokyo International Film Festival is expanding its commitment to emerging talent with the launch of a new showcase section, Asian Students’ Film Conference, featuring 15 under-60-minute films from ...

Tokyo Drift, Tokyo has become an iconic setting for cinema the world over. The city offers unique visual material for telling ...

Inspired by a true story of survival.

Telling the story of a small, subsistence farming mountain community whose few remaining members keep drifting away to nearby cities, Tsuta Tetsuichiro’s second feature, 2013’s The Tale of Iya, drew ...

The 38th Tokyo International Film Festival got off to a gently emotive start Monday night with the local premiere of filmmaker Junji Sakamoto’s Climbing for Life, a crowd-pleasing biographical drama ...

The greatest filmmaker of postwar Japan found a new way to show life onscreen. By Dana Stevens MONO NO AWARE, a phrase that translates to “the pathos of things,” or something like “the beauty of ...

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - Looking back, it’s easy to see how Titanic became the highest-grossing movie of the 20th century. The star power of Leonardo DiCaprio. The leadership of director James Cameron, ...

On any given day, amid the neon glow and ceaseless rhythm of Japan’s capital city, John Sypal can be found walking its streets, a camera slung around his neck, looking for a moment that feels timeless ...

Banijay Americas' BD4 has partnered with Fathom Entertainment and MLB Studios to produce the doc 'Homecoming: The Tokyo Series.' ...