Tom Cruise praises Kokuho as “exceptional,” hosting a special screening for the acclaimed kabuki drama - now Japan’s next ...

Japan is continuing with its incentive program for overseas projects, which has supported the likes of The Smashing Machine, and is enhancing the offer for 2026. The Visual Industry Promotion ...

Mayumi Yoshida’s Japanese-language drama about a struggling Vancouver artist discovering her grandmother’s secret while ...

Pre-order the 25th anniversary 4K Ultra HD release of Battle Royale, the iconic Japanese film that influenced The Hunger ...

A Japanese film has reportedly devastated audiences at the Cannes Film Festival with its poetic imagining of a dystopian solution to Japan’s aging population. “Plan 75,” written and directed by Chie ...

The new venture, which is launching a fund, is set to back an ambitious slate of movies from leading Japanese directors including Hirokazu Kore-eda, Takashi Miike, Shunji Iwai, Miwa Nishikawa and ...

LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- The latest film in the Japanese "Demon Slayer" series, a global box office smash since its release in ...

Japan is extending its film and television incentive program with enhanced provisions designed to attract more overseas productions.

Kabuki drama “Kokuho” has made box office history, becoming the highest-grossing Japanese live-action film of all time in its home market. It surpassed the 22-year-old record set by “Bayside Shakedown ...

At the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy, Mitsuhiro Mihara’s Takano Tofu clinched the Golden Mulberry prize, the top honor at the festival’s audience awards. Family drama Takano Tofu ...

A Syrian filmmaker who documented the refugee experience in Europe has brought his art to a Japanese film festival that ...

Japanese film director Masato Harada, known for socially conscious works including "Climber's High," died on Monday at the age of 76, Tsubasa Project, a talent agency that had a business partnership ...