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  • Japan’s ‘Drive My Car’ wins Oscar for best international feature film

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    LOS ANGELES (Jiji Press) — Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” received 2022 Academ...

    February 9, 2022

  • ‘Drive My Car’ wins Golden Globe for best non-English film

    LOS ANGELES — Japan’s “Drive My Car” won best non-English language film at the 79th Golden Globe Awa...

    January 10, 2022

  • Japan’s “Drive My Car” wins U.S. Film Critics Awards

    Tokyo (Jiji Press) — Japanese movie director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s “Drive My Car” won the 2021 best pi...

    January 10, 2022

  • ‘Asakusa Kid’ taps into Beat Takeshi’s key relationship in early comedic life

    The film “Asakusa Kid” depicting the formative years of legendary comedian Beat Takeshi — who goes b...

    January 7, 2022

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    Director Makoto Shinkai said his first new animated film in three years is called “Suzume no Tojimar...

    December 16, 2021

  • Documentary on disease depicts people’s desperate, driven fight for life

    Renowned documentary film director Kazuo Hara has turned his lens to the issues revolving around Min...

    December 7, 2021

  • French documentary on northern territories screened in Japan

    A French documentary depicting the situation on Kunashiri Island, one of Japan’s northern territorie...

    December 5, 2021

  • Nishijima a mystery man in new TV thriller ‘Guilty Flag’

    Hidetoshi Nishijima stars as Ryosuke Sagara, a salaryman who becomes the talk of the nation followin...

    November 12, 2021

  • Voice actors breathe life into AI animated film

    “Ai no utagoe o kikasete” (Sing a Bit of Harmony), an animated film centered around a girl who is an...

    November 12, 2021

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    The other day I watched a preview of the film “Ten Gokaiger,” a sequel to the Super Sentai series to...

    November 12, 2021

  • Kamen Rider Kaixa event celebrates 10th anniversary

    The 913 Matsuri is one of my strangest annual events. Each year, actor Kohei Murakami and I organize...

    October 8, 2021

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    The movie “Kimi wa Eien ni Soitsura yori Wakai” (Eternally Younger Than Those Idiots), released in t...

    October 1, 2021

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