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Deadline — JapanJapanGoodfellas Unveils First Images For Toho’s Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Leviathan’ & Fall Lineup – AFM EXCLUSIVE: Goodfellas has unveiled first images for Toho’s highly anticipated sci-fi thriller Leviathan, a live action adaptation of Shiro Kuroi’s best-selling manga, as it launches sales ahead of…

Deadline — JapanJapanNew Japanese Drama Series ‘The Employee’ Is Smashing Stereotypes About Women In The Workplace, Says NHK Producer EXCLUSIVE: A new Japanese drama series is turning stereotypes around women in the workplace on their head, according to one of the top producers at public broadcaster NHK.

Deadline — JapanJapanDisney+ & Netflix Hoover Up Non-English Acquisitions As Fervor For Japanese & Korean Content Continues – Ampere Disney+ and Netflix’s buying habits appear to be dispelling the notion that non-English-language acquisitions aren’t on their agendas.

Deadline — JapanJapanCannes Marché & TIFFCOM Commit To Holding Second Edition Of Japan IP Market In 2027 Cannes Marché du Film and Tokyo International Film Festival Content Market (TIFFCOM) have announced that they will co-organize the Japan IP Market in Cannes for a second consecutive year, from May…

Deadline — JapanJapanDisney+ Opens Supernatural Thriller Series ‘Night Tales Club’ In Japan; Watch The Teaser Disney+’s latest Japanese original is supernatural thriller series Night Tales Club. A teaser trailer has dropped for the show, which follows a successful businessman, Hojo, obsessed with the…

Deadline — JapanJapanIconic Japanese Gameshow ‘Action Arena’ To Be Shopped Internationally For First Time By NBCUniversal Formats EXCLUSIVE: Iconic Japanese gameshow Action Arena is being taken to international buyers for the first time in its plus-30-year history.

Deadline — JapanJapan‘All Of A Sudden’ Trailer: Ryusuke Hamaguchi Returns With Parisian Drama That Japan Submitted To The Oscars Here’s the first trailer for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest All of a Sudden, Japan’s entry into the 2027 Oscar Best International Feature race.

Deadline — JapanJapanHBO Max To Launch In Japan As Hub Within Prime Video & Hulu Warner Bros Discovery is rolling out its HBO Max streaming service in Japan. The company said Monday it has struck deals with Amazon’s Prime Video and Hulu and will launch HBO Max as hubs within…

Deadline — JapanJapanOscars: Japan Selects Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ‘All Of A Sudden’ For International Feature Film Race Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s latest feature, All Of A Sudden, has been selected as Japan’s entry for the Best International Feature Film category at the 99th Academy Awards.

Deadline — JapanJapanYouTube Takes Most Of Japanese On-Demand Viewing – AMPD Analytics YouTube is by far the dominant digital streaming player in Japan, new research shows. Behavioral data from AMDP Analytics shows that the Google video platform commands more than 65% of Japan’s…

Deadline — JapanJapanHow A Japanese Broadcaster Captured The Building Of The Tower Of Jesus At Gaudí’s Sagrada Família: “It Felt Almost Like A Living Being” EXCLUSIVE: On the 100th anniversary of the death of the great Spanish architect Gaudí, his Tower of Jesus at the world-famous Sagrada Família is finally complete.

Deadline — JapanJapanLuna Fujimoto, Show Kasamatsu & Takehiro Hira To Star In Japan-Set Thriller ‘The Degrees Of Pain’ EXCLUSIVE: U.S. production outfit Storiesbound is gearing up to shoot psychological thriller The Degrees Of Pain in Japan with Luna Fujimoto, Show Kasamatsu and Takehiro Hira joining the cast.

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映画祭 · What's on the festival calendar — Asia first, then the world — the films each region is talking about, and what its press is covering

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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