Mark Schilling

Japanese road movies are many, but ones with the feeling of wide open spaces like their American counterparts are few for obvious geographical

Funerals make frequent appearances in Japanese films, though usually they are sidebars to the main story.

Shinzo Katayama’s hallucinatory film boldly explores both the absurdities of wartime violence and the erotic psyche.

The eight-part Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye,” directed by Hiroshi Kurosaki, would seem to be the latest Japanese romantic drama in which death plays a leading role, with the objective of wringing audience tears.

Ryo Takebayashi’s documentary profiles the residents of a group home, but shies away from making emphatic statements about the circumstances that brought them there.

The Japanese educational system gets a lot of bad press about overworked teachers burning out or bullied students dropping out.

The Japanese film industry has made movies featuring the Ainu, indigenous people who now live mostly in Hokkaido, but with Japanese actors in the Ainu roles.

Sexual assault was once rarely prosecuted in Japan. Now, however, more victims are coming forward, most recently three Cambodian women who have

International collaborations and indie risk-takers steered the film industry in a fresh direction in 2024.

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