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KENTO YAMAZAKI

Abe no Seimei (Kento Yamazaki), an apprentice at a school of mystic arts, gets wrapped up in a murder investigation in ¡°The Yin Yang Master Zero.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Apr 4, 2024
¡®The Yin Yang Master Zero¡¯: Imaginative action film casts a dazzling spell
Shimako Sato¡¯s VFX-heavy, big-budget fantasy about practitioners of mystic arts goes beyond the genre standard.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 24, 2021
¡®The Door into Summer¡¯: Some doors are best left closed
An orphaned genius travels to the future and back in Takahiro Miki¡¯s treacly sci-fi, ¡°The Door Into Summer,¡± based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 3, 2020
¡®Alice in Borderland¡¯: Deadly journey through the looking glass leaves little impression
Netflix¡¯s sci-fi suspense series about a young man forced to go through a series of twisted challenges takes place in a cityscape that looks all too familiar in 2020.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 16, 2020
¡®Theatre: A Love Story¡¯: No sparks in this tortured romance
Based on a novel by comedian-turned-author Naoki Matayoshi, ¡°Theatre: A Love Story¡± centers on a narcissistic playwright and his long-suffering girlfriend.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 6, 2020
¡®Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku¡¯: A musical take on an otaku romance
This film adaptation of a web comic by single-named artist Fujita has the central couple dancing and singing their way to love.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 28, 2019
¡®Ni no Kuni¡¯: Two worlds but little life to be found
Two things about ¡°Ni no Kuni.¡± 1) It features a protagonist who uses a wheelchair, an admirable display of diversity and inclusion in a medium that rarely features characters with disabilities. 2) There isn¡¯t much else to like about the film.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 17, 2019
¡®Kingdom¡¯: An admirable try at Chinese history
Why should Japanese kids care about a manga set in China¡¯s Warring States Period, (475-221 B.C.)? The players and power struggles are hard enough for professional historians (and this reviewer) to grasp, let alone 10-year-olds.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 15, 2017
¡®One Week Friends¡¯: Groundhog day in the ¡®friend zone¡¯
Someday soon someone is going to come up with an algorithm for commercial seishun eiga (youth films). Plug in the variables ¡ª teenaged love in its more innocuous variations being first and foremost ¡ª and pop out a script for another hit.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 1, 2016
¡®Doctor X¡¯; ¡®The Man With the Divine Tongue¡± Kagome
Ryoko Yonekura returns as the genius freelance surgeon Dr. Michiko Daimon in a special two-hour installment of ¡°Doctor X¡± (TV Asahi, Sun., 9 p.m.).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 18, 2016
¡®Wolf Girl and Black Prince¡¯: The dogged persistence of teen love
Girls go for bad, abusive guys, while relegating nice, decent ones to the dreaded ¡°friend zone¡°: A misogynistic lie or the cold, hard truth? Ryuichi Hiroki¡¯s ¡°Wolf Girl and Black Prince¡± seems to say the latter, starting with its premise. A naive, socially inept high school girl agrees to become the...
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.
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.
Tomoka Nishiyama to become first woman to enter kishi shogi ranks
Shogi player Tomoka Nishiyama, who holds four women¡¯s titles, speaks at a news conference about her decision to become a <i>kishi</i> in Tokyo¡¯s Shibuya Ward on Monday.
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.
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&#039;s South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month&#039;s World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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