The Hollywood Reporter — Japan

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapanMilcho Manchevski’s ‘Sister Brother Manhole Cover’ Wins Top Prize at Tokyo Film Fest Macedonian filmmaker examination of families and the wealth gap takes Grand Prix and brings 10 days of festival to a close.

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapanTokyo: Industry Insiders Skeptical of Bold Japanese Government Plans for Overseas Content Sales Push Agents handling global sales for Japanese players at the TIFFCOM content market did not have high hopes that the new strategy will deliver.

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapanTokyo: ‘Diamond Diplomacy’ Doc Tracks the History of Baseball in Japan and Its Impact on U.S. Relations Film traces stories of players from both countries crossing the Pacific, racial and diplomatic tensions, wartime baseball, through to the phenomenon that is Shohei Ohtani.

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapan‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Crashes Into Tokyo Film Festival With Stars Ryunosuke Kamiki, Minami Hamabe in Tow Takashi Yamazaki’s sequel brought costumed fans, monster figurines and rapturous applause at two sold-out festival screenings ahead of its Nov. 3 Japanese release.

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapanJapan’s Anime Industry Hits a Record High of $28 Billion in 2025 Anime saw growth in both foreign sales and the domestic market, driven in no small part by the huge global success of the latest 'Demon Slayer' movie

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapanTokyo: Milcho Manchevski on his Competition Film, Blacklisting and the Ills of Neo-Social Realism The director, whose ‘Sister Brother Manhole Cover’ is in Tokyo International Film Festival’s main competition, holds forth on why mothers are such a presence in his stories and how he made his first…

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapan‘Godzilla Minus Zero’: First Reactions The sequel to the critically-acclaimed and Oscar-winning 'Godzilla Minus One' will hit theaters in Japan on Nov. 3 and North America on Nov. 6.

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapanJapan’s TeamLab Bringing Permanent Digital Art Exhibition Space to California Set to open in 2030, TeamLab Anaheim will be the first permanent U.S. space for the art collective.

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapanCate Blanchett Warns Against “Unthinking Certainty” as She Accepts Japan’s Praemium Imperiale After picking up her honor — considered one of the most prestigious prizes in the global arts — the two-time Oscar winner will sweep into the Tokyo International Film Festival on Friday to take part…

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The Hollywood Reporter — JapanJapanTokyo Film Festival Director Takeo Hisamatsu Wants More Money, More Parties and a Bigger Global Profile for Japanese Cinema Returning to lead the festival ahead of its 40th anniversary, the industry veteran sees an opportunity to capitalize on the surging international interest in all things Japan.

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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