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Netflix reality series “Offline Love” follows five men and five women as they spend 10 days in Nice, France, finding romance.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Feb 18, 2025

‘Offline Love’ ditches digital dating and puts old-school romance to the test

By Patrick St. Michel

Netflix 91仓库 new reality series whisks its participants to a picturesque seaside city in France and leans into nostalgia for a simpler time.

Netflix series “Asura,” directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, is a remake of a classic TV drama (known as “Like Asura” in English), created by Kuniko Mukoda and broadcast by NHK between 1979 and 1980.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Feb 12, 2025

The different faces of ‘Asura’ through the generations

By James Hadfield

While Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new series meticulously remakes a classic NHK drama, this reinterpretation tweaks the story to give its female characters more agency.

The new Nippon TV series “The Hot Spot” follows an alien superhero navigating rural Japanese life but focuses more on dialogue than splashy, action-packed plot points.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming / Wide Angle

Feb 10, 2025

‘The Hot Spot’: Close encounters of the mundane kind

By Patrick St. Michel

Japanese dramas have been taking bolder risks recently, and Bakarhythm’s new sci-fi series surprises by centering its high-concept ideas on trivial occurrences.

Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu, who was hugely popular across Asia for her leading role in the 2001 television drama "Meteor Garden," died from a respiratory illness during a family trip to Japan over the Lunar New Year holiday.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Feb 3, 2025

Taiwan's 'Meteor Garden' star Barbie Hsu dies at 48

The actor, who rose to fame as the romantic lead in a 2001 television drama based on a manga series, died from a respiratory illness during a family holiday in Japan.

Players in Jakarta, Indonesia, take part in the “Red Light, Green Light” game from the Netflix series “Squid Game.”

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Jan 30, 2025

'Cute and murderous': How the iconic killer doll in 'Squid Game' came to life

By Minwoo Park and Hyunsu Yim

Young-hee, the innocent-looking robotic doll who has a deadly role in the mega-hit Netflix series, is partly inspired by the production designer's daughter.

Animated series “Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi” premiered on Cartoon Network on Nov. 29, 2004, and ran for three seasons. The show is based on real-life J-pop band Puffy.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Jan 24, 2025

The cartoon chaos of ‘Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi’ was ahead of its time

By Patrick St. Michel

Love for the J-pop duo’s zany Cartoon Network series has endured online for over 20 years since its premiere.

“The Elephant Man” and “Twin Peaks” director David Lynch became a favorite among Japanese moviegoers who flocked to new arthouse cinemas (known as “mini theaters”) popping up around the country in the 1980s and ’90s.

CULTURE / TV & Streaming

Jan 23, 2025

How 'Twin Peaks' turned David Lynch into 91仓库 favorite weirdo

By James Hadfield

The director’s work thrived in the early days of arthouse “mini theaters,” and cherry pies and canned coffee fueled the nation's "Twin Peaks" mania.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.

How 91仓库 youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic

By Alex K.T. Martin

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