Japan
Whether elements in My Neighbor Totoro are imagined or real, the film explores family dynamics in a way that may be relatable to a number of individuals.
Japanese master filmmaker Nobuhiko Obayashi’s final movie Labyrinth of Cinema is a love-song to movies and a reckoning with Japanese history.
As a follow-up to 2008’s Mental, Zero offers a pleasantly intimate but never intrusive portrait of the life of Dr. Masatomo Yamamoto.
As we wait for the next installment in the James Bond franchise, we take a look back at the super-sized epic 1967 film You Only Live Twice.
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo is comforting, emotive, overwhelming at times, and always worth the time spent giving it your full attention.
While missing opportunities along the way, A Whisker Away makes up for it with its stunning original art and world of humanoid cats.
The Truth is an impeccable and intimate view into the quietly tumultuous relationships between mothers and daughters and the shape they take into adulthood.
Ju-On: Origins may not reinvent the formula of the franchise, it still has enough stuff to give the audience a terrifying nightmare.
While it once remained in the shadows of cinema, Onibaba has since etched out a place among the pantheon of must-watch Japanese films.
Images are powerful as is representation. Based on my ancestry, I thought it would be…
In Part Three of Terrace House Tokyo, there are twelve different people living in the house throughout the twelve episodes, and there is just too much content to focus on.
Shinkai’s Weathering With You is more than content to face the onslaught with the naive fantasies of youth. He’s unabashed about giving himself over to them totally.
When it comes right down to it, Part One of any Terrace House season serves…
So far, this season of Terrace House Tokyo has had a mixed bag, and it really doesn’t seem like anyone is close to accomplishing their stated goals.
Weathering with You, the latest film from Makoto Shinkai proves that he is one of the most delightfully unique voices working in the world of animation today.