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Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.

CULTURE / Film

Nov 13, 2025

Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon

By Mark Schilling

Tatsuya Nakadai worked with nearly every major Japanese director of the postwar era, but it was his collaborations with Akira Kurosawa that cemented his legacy.

Pen-ek Ratanaruang's "Morte Cucina," starring Bella Boonsang, is a food film par excellence.

CULTURE / Film

Nov 6, 2025

Asian auteurs stole the show at this year's TIFF

By Mike Fu

Zhang Lu and Pen-ek Ratanaruang delivered standout entries at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival.

Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.

CULTURE / Film

Nov 6, 2025

A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF

By James Hadfield

Paul Schrader’s 1985 biopic of the radical author Yukio Mishima finds its Japanese audience at last.

A happy-go-lucky guy with many obsessions (voiced by Masaya Sano) becomes intensely interested in a young woman named Pechka (Moka Kamishiraishi) in “The Obsessed.”

CULTURE / Film

Nov 6, 2025

‘The Obsessed’: Charming anime dances to its own tune

By Matt Schley

"Crayon Shin-chan" director turns a 2001 novel into a quirky, rough-edged musical anime.

A scriptwriter imagines an encounter between a teenage boy (Mansaku Takada, left) and a young woman (Yuumi Kawai) at a beach in “Two Seasons, Two Strangers.”

CULTURE / Film

Nov 6, 2025

‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ captures the subtle sadness of Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga

By Mark Schilling

Director Sho Miyake transforms two of the cult manga artist’s stories into a poetic film that’s hard to forget.

“Mother Bhumi” takes place in a multiethnic rice-farming community where Chinese, Thai and Malay lineages intertwine.

CULTURE / Film

Nov 6, 2025

Across borders and screens, Tokyo film festival finds humanity in migration

By Erik Augustin Palm

Five films screened at this year’s TIFF put migration and its human impact front and center.

After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.

CULTURE / Film

Oct 31, 2025

Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it

By Alicia Haddick

Once a niche passion, anime has become a global obsession. “Demon Slayer” lit the fuse. “Chainsaw Man” just proved it’s unstoppable.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.

A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo

By Kathryn Wortley

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