Japan
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Mipo O directs Ryo Yoshizawa as a CODA, who wrestles with his responsibilities to care for his hearing-impaired parents. Read More
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Pixar’s Inside Out may have won an Academy Award and spawned a record-breaking sequel, but storytellers have been assigning personalities to our emotions and internal organs for years.British comic strip… Read More
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An inner-city high school becomes the testing ground for an intrusive new security system in Happyend, the debut feature from Japanese-American filmmaker Neo Sora. Through the prism of this institution, the… Read More
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Attack on Titan is one of the most successful manga series of all time, selling more than 140 million copies since publication began in 2009. Hajime Isayama’s epic blend of… Read More
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In a year when Hong Kong cinema made history in its own backyard, and prominent filmmakers were chased out of their home countries for daring to speak truth to power,… Read More
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Set 200 years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s seminal fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim chronicles a power dispute in the Kingdom of Rohan as… Read More
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At October’s Busan International Film Festival in South Korea, Netflix dominated the headlines as it premiered a number of upcoming films and TV shows. Among the offerings was Beyond Goodbye, a… Read More
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The heart continues to yearn for its beloved even after death. At least, this is the notion put forward by Beyond Goodbye, a new Japanese drama series starring Kasumi Arimura and… Read More
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Tatsuki Fujimoto’s 2021 manga Look Back is an uncharacteristically nostalgic one-shot from the creator of Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man. Exploring the relationship between two schoolgirls who share a love… Read More
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There is something refreshingly conventional about The Parades director Michihito Fujii’s romantic drama 18×2 Beyond Youthful Days, despite its needlessly clumsy title. At a time when the genre has become… Read More
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Sakura Ando stars as a small-time grifter who gets in way over her head in Bad Lands, a Japanese crime drama that attempts to shine a light on the country’s predatory… Read More
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The 37th film in the Japanese blockbuster franchise, and the 33rd produced by Toho Studios, Godzilla Minus One turns the clock back to the late 1940s as it dramatises a destructive attack… Read More
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Your wedding day should be one of the happiest days of your life, yet it can also be one of the most stressful. From the months of planning, to interfering… Read More
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Shinichiro Ueda’s metatextual zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead caused a sensation at the Japanese box office in 2017, and at film festivals around the world. Its frenzied film-within-a-film… Read More
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If you had the ability to see people’s fate, to know when they were about to die, would you tell them? Even if it jeopardised your own life? This is… Read More
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Asia has not always been at the forefront of the fight for gender equality. Even in Asian cinema, too often it’s the men who wrestle with world-changing events, while the… Read More
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In You Shine in the Moonlight, Sho Tsukikawa’s adaptation of Tetsuya Sano’s light novel, a high-school girl with a rare terminal illness tasks her classmate with completing a bucket list… Read More
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In 1998, Japanese director Hideo Nakata created Ring, one of the most celebrated Asian horror movies of all time. An adaptation of Koji Suzuki’s chilling bestseller, Ring became a flagship… Read More
