Katsuhito Ishii’s World: 30th Anniversary Screenings, Japanese Film Trailers – The Promise of August (1995), his feature-length theatrical debut Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (1999),  PAR…

Onihei hankacho kyoken, Gorilla Hall, Days – kakegae no nai hibi -, Rental Family, When You Wish Upon a Black Hole, Northern Food Story, Japanese Film Trailers

Kamen Rider Gavv: Guilty Parfait, Labyrinth in the Grass, Sfriends Pride, MGA MAGICAL 10 YEARS DOCUMENTARY FILM THE ORIGIN, MGA MAGICAL 10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY LIVE FJORD ON SCREEN, Japanese Film Trai…

Ittekimasu, Ima wo tsumugu asu, Tsuki no koori, Silent Night, ILHA FORMOSA, GENERATIONS： The Documentary, Japanese Film Trailers

An interview with Oudai Kojima and Ikken Yamamoto on their forthcoming film, Flames of a Flower 火の華 (2025) Director: Oudai Kojima [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2025: Expo Edition]

As ambitious in scope and visuals as it is, the small human drama rather than the big politics and action are what make Oudai Kojima’s Flames of a Flower 火の華 (2025) a really moving work. [Osa…

Zombieland Saga Movie: Yumeginga Paradise, Inu neko to akubi to yokyo, Yoyogi Johnny, Poems of Flower Rain, Gold, Japanese Film Trailers

Baka’s Identity, Princess Mononoke, Fujiko Hemingu Eien no neiro, Koi ni itaru yamai, Meets the World, Japanese Film Trailers

5 Centimetres Per Second, Yamato yo towa ni: Rebel 3199 Part 4: The Aqua Sasha, Housenka, Aikatsu! x PriPara the Movie: Deai no Kiseki!, Golden Kamuy: Sapporo Beer Kojo-hen, Beyond the Trail, Japan…

Some Like It Cold 차가운 것이 좋아! (2025), by director Hong Sung-eun, is a unique mix of a rom-zom-com road movie with an unabashed love story and smart horror design, both of which higolight human right…

A Preview of the Japanese Films at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2025 (SEPTEMBER 19th-27th)

In an interview, Tadashi Nohara and Rira Kawamura talk about creating the short film “Ideal Son” 息子の鑑 (2025), from writing to getting the right cast and chemistry [Osaka Asian Film Fest…

Those days when all these things were Fantasy., Junretsu Documentary shinu made osu no ka, Tsushima, Hitoshi sugu, Yonata no Farmer’s Fukushima to kibou, Japanese Film Trailers

Karada sagashi THE LAST NIGHT, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz Special Edition, Aosho! Voices in Bloom, Oishii unmei, Kami to onokuri, Japanese Film Trailers

Milk Lady ミルクレディ (2025), from director Sachiko Miyase and writer Asumi Sako, may be a blackly-comic short film but it contains a history of pain and humiliation of multitudes of women have faced in…

Ideal Son 息子の鑑 (2025), by director Tadashi Nohara, is an exquisitely shot and acted short that transforms from caustic comedy about cash to a heartfelt drama about fatherhood. It had its world prem…

A Preview of the rich variety of Asian films at the Toronto International Film Festival 2025 (September 05th-14th)

Here are my personal highlights from Osaka Asian Film Festival 2025: Expo Edition, a collaboration between Osaka Expo and OAFF: a run-down of each section for the summer festival.

Haoto, Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Cho Karei! Shakunetsu no Kasukabe Dancers, Kinki chiho no aru basho ni tsuite, cocoon, Japanese Film Trailers (August 08/09)

Ju-On: The Curse 1+ 2 4K V-Cinema Version, Dr. Kakizoe aruku shohousen Michinoku Shiokaze toreiru wo iku, Turtles are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers, Japanese Film Trailers (August 08/09)

The Bride from Hades 牡丹燈籠 (1968) is a politically left-leaning take by director Satsuo Yamamoto that has plenty of chilling supernatural scares and samurai vs spook action as well as societal criti…

Cult cinema also considers ‘third or fourth space’ as it negotiates over future of its Leicester Square site The Prince Charles cinema is planning to expand to a second site in the capital despite being locked in a battle over the future of its original location in central London. The independent cinema, which is known for showing a wide-ranging selection of cult films from across the history of cinema, has put in a bid to take over and reopen what was the Stratford Picturehouse in east London. Continue reading...

Mai Nakanishi reveals the background to her psychological horror short CONFESSION 告解 (2025), which stars Misa Wada as a woman in white whose fury torments a priest. It plays as part of the film Lab…