1 Aug – Actor Abe Hiroshi is now the proud father of a baby girl. The actor made the announcement on 31 July through his official website, where he commented, "I gained courage and power to work hard ...

Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s enchanting movies are woven from the same gentle cloth: quiet, deceptively uncomplicated stories of families. We watch, leaning in to listen, waiting for ...

Hiroshi Abe (born June 22, 1964) is a Japanese model and actor. He began his career as a model, but he successfully made the transition to acting, becoming one of the most regularly visible presences ...

The unostentatious artistry is reminiscent of Ozu's "Tokyo Story," but his documentary-style film language is refreshingly contemporary. By Maggie Lee Venue: Toronto International Film Festival TOKYO, ...

Disaster befalls a village's inhabitants every 300 years. A popular self-styled magician named Naoko (Yukie Nakama) is summoned as a deity to rid the people of their anxiety. But there are many ...

"They end up clashing here – soul to soul... I thought of it as a love scene as we filmed it." ⚔️ Netflix has debuted a making of promo video for the badass Japanese action series called Last Samurai ...

As I watched Hirokazu Koreeda’s new film “After the Storm,” I was reminded of Roger Ebert’s review of the 1999 film “Goodbye, Lover.” Ebert comments that the plot of that film “is so labyrinthine that ...