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Left: This year’s Japanese Film Festival Film Guide. Right: Ben Suzuki, Director of the Japan Foundation Manila. Photos: Ica Hontiveros-Cheng Running for 28 years (Gasp!) The Japanese Film ...

Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi (1938-2020) took the world of cinema by storm with his 1997 masterpiece House. A campy, cult-classic horror, the film set the stage for his idiosyncratic ...

While you were yawning at the naffness of this year’s Oscars nominations and snoozing your way through the multiplexes’ blockbuster discards in “dump month” January, one of the country’s most dynamic ...

The Japanese Film Festival 2025 will screen four more films at Shangri-La Plaza's Red Carpet Cinema in Mandaluyong City on February 15 and 16 through the special program, Journey of Japan on Screen in ...

With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Directed by Swiss filmmaker Tim Fehlbaum and boasting an accomplished ensemble cast including Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin and Leonie Benesch, the film follows the ABC Sports broadcasting ...

The Japan Foundation, Manila, invites everyone to a cinephile weekend through the Japanese Film Festival 2025. Notable films such as Godzilla Minus One, Perfect Days, and animated classics like Akira ...

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Guild has picked up North American distribution rights to The Friends (1994) and Love Hotel (1985), two films by revered Japanese filmmaker Shinji Somai. Love Hotel will open on ...

The deals were negotiated by Peter Kelly and Edward McCarry of Cinema Guild with MK2 and the Nikkatsu Corporation ... unknown outside Japan. Related Stories News Films Of Pioneering Portuguese ...

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