Drive My Car makes Oscar history, sets streaming premiere on HBO Max
Drive My Car, directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, has become the first Japanese film to receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Adapted fContinue reading…
Category: TV/Film
Sumodo – The Successors of Samurai – shows the brutal grace of Japan’s national sport (Film Review)
Sumodo – The Successors of Samurai Review by David Cirone Sumodo – The Successors of Samurai is a wonderfully engaging documentary about the wContinue reading…
Masked Ward (Film Review)
Masked Ward (Kamen Byoto) Review by David Cirone Masked Ward is a thriller following young doctor Shugo Hayami (Kentaro Sakaguchi) as he navigContinue reading…
Aristocrats (Film Review)
Aristocrats (Ano Ko wa Kizoku) Review by David Cirone Aristocrats begins with vivid images of the bright, beautiful streets of Tokyo on New YeContinue reading…
A Girl Missing takes a dark road to a dead end (Film Review)
In A Girl Missing — the latest dramatic film from director Koji Fukada — a well-intentioned home nurse becomes the victim of lies and media scruContinue reading…
Film director Michael Mann talks shop about shooting Tokyo Vice in Japan
Film director Michael Mann (Heat, The Insider) talks about the practical elements of shooting film in Japan in a video interview presented by JapaContinue reading…
Takashi Miike’s Audition homaged in popular Image comic Stray Dogs
The best-selling Image Comics series Stray Dogs features an homage to Takashi Miike’s film Audition in the newly-released 4th printing of issue #4Continue reading…
Alice in Borderland (Series Review)
Alice in Borderland Series Review by David Cirone Based on the manga series by Haro Aso, Alice in Borderland is a fun but frustrating additionContinue reading…
Five bloody, delightful Japanese films streaming now from Alamo Drafthouse
Alamo Drafthouse has curated a selection of top indie films now available for streaming via their Alamo on Demand online platform. While you’re waContinue reading…
BFI Japan 2020 programs top Japanese films from 1925 to present
The British Film Institute has crafted its newly-minted Japan 2020 celebration of Japanese cinema with a year-by-year timeline, taking a fresh appContinue reading…