The Asian Film Awards is set to honour established filmmakers and champion the next generation of directing talent at its ...

Three of Japan’s most promising young directors are headed to Berlin to boost the ranks of filmmakers from the country on the global cinema stage. Shinji Araki, Takeshi Kushida and Naoya Kusaba ...

Kazuya Kamenashi is seen as he appeared on the red carpet during the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival, in the capital's Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 23, 2023. (Mainichi/Ririko Maeda) TOKYO ...

"A New Wave In Japan Is Coming" -- Rotterdam To and Leung both served as jury members at last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, with To heading the jury and discussing the current ...

Look Back won the Animation of the Year award in the film category of this year's Tokyo Anime Award Festival (TAAF). Oshiyama, the film's animator Toshiyuki Inoue, and sound director Eriko Kimura also ...

Tokyo-based Free Stone Productions has acquired international rights to Berlinale 2025 selection “Seaside Serendipity” and cross-cultural drama “Diamonds in the Sand,” with plans to represent both ...

No other filmmaker embodies the "unpredictability, chaos and beauty" of the German capital quite like the man who is (once ...

Winner of three well-deserved prizes at last year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, including best picture, Daihachi Yoshida’s “Teki Cometh” (scripted by the director from a 1998 novel ...