JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles to host Shogun premiere event with Hiroyuki Sanada
FX and JAPAN HOUSE Los Angeles will co-present an exclusive screening of the first episode of FX’s Shōgun, followed by a conversation with HiroyuContinue reading…
Category: TV/Film
Director Daigo Matsui guides complex, erotic Hand (Film Review)
Hand (Te) Film review by David Cirone – Screening as part of the Japan Cuts Film Festival on Saturday, July 29, 2023 Summary (from the JapaContinue reading…
Toko Miura’s stellar performance anchors “I Am What I Am” (Film Review)
I Am What I Am (Sobakasu) Film review by David Cirone – Screening as part of the Japan Cuts Film Festival on Friday, July 28, 2023 Summary (fContinue reading…
Wandering (Film Review)
Wandering (Ruro no Tsuki) Film review by David Cirone – Screening as part of the Japan Cuts Film Festival on Tuesday, August 1, 2023 Summary Continue reading…
Japan Cuts film festival returns to New York City with 12 days of drama, comedy, and animation
Japan Society in New York City will present the 16th annual JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film, the largest festival of its kind in North AContinue reading…
Ozu 120: Three-week retrospective to screen in New York
OZU 120, a three-week, complete retrospective of the Japanese director and screenwriter’s extant work, commemorating both the 120th anniversary Continue reading…
Shin Ultraman (Film Review)
Shin Ultraman (Film) Review by Jennifer Elise Wang Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi have returned with another reboot of a tokusatsu classic, SContinue reading…
Rinko Kikuchi stars in Mondo Grosso’s new music video Crypt
Film and television star Rinko Kikuchi, recently featured in HBO’s Tokyo Vice, stars as a daydreaming taxi driver in the new Mondo Grosso music viContinue reading…
HBO Max releases first trailer for Tokyo Vice series starring Ken Watanabe and Rinko Kikuchi
HBO Max has releases the first video trailer for Tokyo Vice, the upcoming limited series based on Jake Adelstein’s intense, in-depth book about crContinue reading…
It’s a Summer Film! wraps time travel in a film-lover’s blanket (Film Review)
It’s a Summer Film! (Summer Film Ninotte) Review by David Cirone Fed up with her school film club’s sappy romance project, a scrappy high schoContinue reading…