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Go Morita plays an aging manga artist who’s put his creative ambitions on permanent hold in Shoichi Morimoto and Takuma Sato’s “The Potentials.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 23, 2026
‘The Potentials’ unpacks the dilemmas of a manga assistant in middle age
Shoichi Morimoto and Takuma Sato’s “The Potentials” is an engaging tale about art, life and everything that gets in the way.
After building a cult following as a director of straight-to-video movies, Takashi Miike achieved international recognition with “Audition” and “Ichi the Killer.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 23, 2026
Takashi Miike pushes the envelope with ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’
Veteran director Takashi Miike reflects on his first major international coproduction and the existential questions that drive his work.
Momoko Fukuchi (left) and Naomi Kawase play an estranged mother and daughter in Ryutaro Nakagawa’s “Echoes of Motherhood."
CULTURE / Film
Oct 22, 2026
An estranged mother and daughter face the music in ‘Echoes of Motherhood’
Despite some perplexing plot holes, Ryutaro Nakagawa’s “Echoes of Motherhood” is marked by a powerhouse performance by Naomi Kawase.
Daniel Raim’s “The Ozu Diaries” offers insights into the ethos and experiences that informed the work of golden age director Yasujiro Ozu.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 17, 2026
‘Ozu showed the way’: A documentarian looks for the man behind the legend
Though known for his documentaries about American filmmakers, Daniel Raim’s project on Yasujiro Ozu was executed with great care and admiration.
In Keisuke Yoshida’s “Mentor,” childhood friends Ryunosuke (Hayato Isomura, left) and Takumi (Seiya Suezawa) reckon with the consequences of a deadly fire they caused 15 years earlier after a chance reunion with one of the victims.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2026
‘Mentor’: A mordant exploration of guilt and absolution
Keisuke Yoshida’s “Mentor” is a discomfiting tale about the repercussions of a deadly fire in the lives of three men.
Yuya Yagira (center) stars as the title character in Nobuo Mizuta's "Ryuji," a remake of a 1983 cult classic yakuza film.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2026
Classic yakuza film ‘Ryuji’ gets a riveting remake
Yuya Yagira stars as the title character in Nobuo Mizuta’s “Ryuji,” a remake of a cult classic from 1983.
In Miwa Nishikawa's "Children Untold," Fumi Nikaido (right) plays a former schoolteacher on the hunt for her erstwhile pupil (Aoi Koyae, left) in the aftermath of World War II.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 10, 2026
‘Children Untold’ shines a light on the plight of postwar orphans
Miwa Nishikawa’s “Children Untold” tells a Dickensian tale of Japanese orphans in the aftermath of World War II.
Directors Akira Ikeda (left), Yukiko Mishima (second from left) and Akira Yamamoto (right) pose with actor Kento Nakajima (second from right). Ikeda, Mishima and Yamamoto each have films screening in competition, while Nakajima is serving as this year’s festival “navigator,” or the official face of the 39th TIFF.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 9, 2026
What to know before the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival
The Tokyo International Film Festival is back for its 39th edition, offering moviegoers a chance to voyage across space and time without leaving the capital.
Daniel Raim’s “The Ozu Diaries” is an enlightening portrait of Yasujiro Ozu and the experiences that shaped him as a man and artist.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 6, 2026
‘The Ozu Diaries’: An engaging look at the man behind the myth
Daniel Raims’ “The Ozu Diaries” is a stirringly human portrait of a titan of Japanese film and the experiences that shaped him.
A rookie stage actor (Koshi Mizukami, right, with Haru Kuroki) cast as a true-life murder victim starts to lose track of who he really is in Yuri Takei’s “F(r)iction.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 4, 2026
‘F(r)iction’: A play within a film gets meta and messy
Though not without its flaws, Yuri Takei’s film about life imitating art imitating life has an unpredictable energy that yields striking moments.
Yasuhiko Mitani is the subject of a new food documentary titled “MITANI - The Mariage of Sushi.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 2, 2026
After ‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi,’ ‘Mitani’ tells a different sushi story in San Sebastian
The film moves beyond sushi’s polished international image to explore the man, philosophy and discipline behind the craft.
Japanese director Maha Harada poses at a photocall for the film "Muyou No Hito" ("In My Father’s Room") at the 74th San Sebastian International Film Festival in San Sebastian, Spain, on Tuesday
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 27, 2026
Japanese film ‘Muyou no Hito’ wins International Critics Award
The film “Muyou no Hito” will be released in Japan next January.
Riho Yoshioka (left) and the single-named Nao play victims of domestic abuse who find themselves on opposite sides of the law in Ryuhei Yoshino’s “Shadow Work.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 27, 2026
‘Shadow Work’ plumbs the depths of domestic violence — and vengeance
Ryuhei Yoshino’s “Shadow Work” is a morally fraught revenge thriller about victims of domestic abuse who dare to fight back.
In Takuya Uchiyama’s “Numb,” model and pop singer Takumi Kitamura plays the adult version of Daichi, a boy who grew up in an environment of neglect and abuse.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 27, 2026
‘Numb’ builds a bleak vision of a troubled boyhood
Inspired by director Takuya Uchiyama’s own experiences, “Numb” is an unflinching look at childhood neglect transmuted into adult sorrow.
Shizuka Ishibashi (right) plays a 30-something woman who takes a sojourn in the countryside to model for her erstwhile sister-in-law (Takako Matsu, left) in Koji Fukada’s “Nagi Notes.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 18, 2026
‘Nagi Notes’: An intimate portrayal of rural rhythms and realities
The latest film by Koji Fukada reveals an understated charm through languid conversations and art-making.
Mark Merphy plays the young Allen Nelson, a U.S. Marine whose real-life experiences in the Vietnam War are dramatized in Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 18, 2026
‘Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?’: A passionate but uneven anti-war biopic
Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?” dramatizes the experiences of a Black Vietnam War veteran to mixed effect.
School students Ayumu Fujino (Natsuki Deguchi, left) and Kyomoto (Aju Makita) form a close artistic partnership in Hirokazu Koreeda’s “Look Back,” adapted from the manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 14, 2026
Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Look Back’ is gorgeous but unnecessary
The director’s authorial signature gets somewhat muddled in this adaptation of a manga by “Chainsaw Man” creator Tatsuki Fujimoto.
Director Hirokazu Koreeda poses on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the movie "Look Back" in competition, at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Sept. 7.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 13, 2026
Hirokazu Koreeda’s ‘Look Back’ wins five awards at Venice film festival
The five prizes, which were independently awarded by external organizations other than the festival itself, included the CinemaSara Award.
Natsuki Deguchi (left) and Aju Makita star in Hirokazu Koreeda’s live-action adaptation of “Look Back,” based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed manga of the same name. Koreeda’s version explores friendship, creativity, ambition and loss while bringing Fujimoto’s story and characters into the world of live action.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 11, 2026
Double-dipping: When one manga adaptation just isn’t enough
Across the generations, popular manga have lent themselves to both live-action and anime adaptations — with sometimes surprising results.
Three women named Satoko — played by (left to right) Hikari Ishida, Kasumi Arimura and Kashun Himeno — are linked in strange ways by narrative threads and tropes in Shuichi Okita’s “Satoko Always.”
CULTURE / Film
Sep 10, 2026
‘Satoko Always’: A multilayered story discombobulates and delights
Shuichi Okita’s latest feature film is a thematically rich and formally daring exploration of reality and fantasy.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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