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’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai
Dir: Yasuhiro Aoki. Japan. 2025. 90mins
A lowly worker at a delivery firm in a fantasy near-future Shanghai finds himself married to a mermaid princess...
‘Love On Trial’ review: Koji Fukada’s drama reveals the dark side of the J-pop phenomenon
Dir: Koji Fukada. Japan. 2025. 124mins
When it’s found {that a} younger Japanese singer has a boyfriend, thus breaking the ‘no love’ clause in her...
‘Brand New Landscape’ review: Debut explores a Tokyo family in crisis
Dir: Yuiga Danzuka. Japan. 2025. 115mins
Two siblings have very totally different emotional reactions to attainable reconciliation with their estranged father in Yuiga Danzuka’s first...
‘A Pale View Of Hills’ review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel gets tangled between Japan and the UK
Dir/scr: Kei Ishikawa. Japan/UK/Poland. 2025. 123mins
The autumn-out from the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki has an afterlife that extends by generations on...
‘Renoir’ review: A grieving 11-year-old retreats into fantasy in 1980s Tokyo
Dir/scr: Chie Hayakawa. Japan/France/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia/Qatar. 2025. 120mins
Together with her father sinking into the ultimate phases of terminal most cancers and her mom frazzled by stress,...
‘Exit 8’ review: Tokyo’s subway is an endless purgatory in ‘ingenious’ video game adaptation
Dir. Genki Kawamura. Japan 2025. 95mins
The theme music to Genki Kawamura’s conceptual chiller Exit 8 is Ravel’s Bolero, nevertheless it may simply have kicked...
‘The Brightest Sun’ review: Hidetoshi Nishijima plays detective for director Tetsuya Nakashima
Dir: Tetsuya Nakashima. Japan. 2025. 129mins
A broken-down non-public investigator and his novice assistant are tasked with discovering a colleague’s assassin, forcing them each to...
United States, Japan qualify for Billie Jean King Cup Finals
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia -- Hailey Baptiste and Bernarda Pera had straight-set wins Sunday to offer the USA a spot within the Billie Jean King Cup...
‘Look Back’ wins grand prix at Niigata animation festival as winners reflect on AI
Kiyotaka Oshiyama’s Look Again received the grand prix on the third Niigata Worldwide Animation Movie Competition (NIAFF) on Thursday (March 20).
The award was offered...
‘Perfect Days’ star Koji Yakusho to receive Asian Film Awards honour
Japanese actor Koji Yakusho, recognized for his critically acclaimed performances in movies akin to Good Days and Shall We Dance?, is to obtain the...