TOKYO -- "Kokuho," a new film distributed by Toho about the life and career of two fictional Kabuki performers, has become the first live-action Japanese movie to gross over 10 billion yen ($67.7 ...

Japan’s king of action comedy, Yugo Sakamoto, made a rare venture into nonviolence with this year’s female friendship comedy “Nemurubaka: Hypnic Jerks,” which featured just a single, well-executed ...

[OSEN=Seon Mi-kyung reporter] Actor Rowoon is set to appear in the Japanese film ‘Last Man -FIRST LOVE-’. The film ‘Last Man -FIRST LOVE-’, starring Rowoon, is a cinematic adaptation of the drama ...

Rowoon is making his big-screen debut in Japan! Rowoon will be starring in the upcoming Japanese film “The Last Man: First Love,” a cinematic adaptation of the hit 2023 Japanese drama “The Last Man: ...

DAVAO CITY—For the second time this year, the Japanese Film Festival will be screening a batch of Japanese films this Oct. 10-19. “At the coming Japanese Film Festival, we will have 11 films that will ...

Pokemon Former Nintendo marketing leads theorize the company is finding a "backdoor angle" to use while suing AI creators over fake Pokemon content, "kind of like with Palworld" Pokemon Even Pokemon's ...

According to the Hankyoreh newspaper, one of Asia's biggest film festivals was launched in 1996 in the South Korean port city of Busan rather than the capital, Seoul, for a variety of reasons. Chief ...

The Japanese Film Festival (JFF), presented by The Japan Foundation, Sydney, marks its 29th year with a line-up of major new releases, literary adaptations, thrillers and anime features. Touring ...

The Japanese Film Festival 2025 showcased at the Arts Council Pakistan Karachi on September 17 the first of its eight unconventional films: Penguin Highway — a 2018 feature-length anime adaptation of ...

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EXCLUSIVE: Filming has quietly wrapped in Wales, UK, on Gareth Evans‘ (The Raid franchise) under-the-radar new feature A Colt Is My Passport, the Amazon MGM Studios/Orion Pictures reimagining of ...