CAMERA JAPAN

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CAMERA JAPANJapanThe 2026 CAMERA JAPAN Audience Award After counting the votes and crunching the numbers, we are pleased to announce that Blue Boy Trial remains at the top of the ratings.

October 6

CAMERA JAPANJapanInterview with director HAMANO Sachi and screenwriter YAMAZAKI Kuninori Two of the very special guests this year were HAMANO Sachi, the renowned director of Kaneko Fumiko, and YAMAZAKI Kuninori, her frequent collaborator and screenwriter.

October 3

CAMERA JAPANJapanInterview with director MATSUI Misaki and craftsman TAKAI Akio Director MATSUI Misaki and Edo stencil carving craftsman TAKAI Akio joined us in Rotterdam for the Dutch premiere of SEKKA – Snow Crystals, where TAKAI Akio also imparted two Edo stencil carving…

October 2

CAMERA JAPANJapanInterim 2026 Audience Award After four days packed with film screenings, Blue Boy Trial leads the Audience Award rankings. From director IIZUKA Kasho, the moving courtroom drama struck a chord with audiences in Rotterdam.

September 28

CAMERA JAPANJapanInterview with Musicians Tomo KATSURADA & Jonny NASH We are more than thrilled to announce Tomo KATSURADA and Johnny NASH’s live performance as part of the CAMERA JAPAN 2026 programme!

September 14

CAMERA JAPANJapanInterview with Designer OGATA Takumi Are you excited for the unveiling of this year’s CAMERA JAPAN poster? To give you a little sneak peek before the big announcement, we talked to artist OGATA Takumi, who designed the poster for our…

August 17

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July 24

CAMERA JAPANJapanInterview with Director KATAOKA Shiho The documentary Aruku screened at CAMERA JAPAN 2025 where it ranked 5th in our Audience Awards with all screenings sold out.

December 9, 2025

CAMERA JAPANJapanInterview with Andreas HARTMANN and MORI Arata The documentary Johatsu: Into Thin Air screened at CAMERA JAPAN 2025. Directors Andreas HARTMANN and MORI Arata attended the festival in Rotterdam where programmer Lowen Steerneman spoke with them…

November 4, 2025

CAMERA JAPANJapanInterview with Director YOSHIDA Shigeru The documentary Shades of Indigo screened at CAMERA JAPAN 2025 where it ranked 4th in our Audience Awards.

October 29, 2025

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo