Category : Culture

While Hideaki Anno’s third installment in his “Shin” series lacks substance, it packs in the camp and energy of its 1970s source material....

Translator Sam Bett brings out the fragile personalities in the author’s early novella, a predecessor to his modern classic novel “No Longer Human.”...

The collection chronicles the rise of the “commoner arts” through genres like travelogs, poetry and easy-reading books that entertained the masses during the Edo Period...

A documentary titled “On the Way Home” tells the story of Kenta Yasunaga and tries to start a conversation about how the Japanese legal system...

Yoshitaka Kamada’s drama about a man looking to end his life is bleak, sometimes beautiful and shot through with dark humor....

The ‘Kyoto’ singer-songwriter confronts past traumas and returns to a place of catharsis on her three-city Japan tour....

The manga adaptation’s score, composed by jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara, hits all the right notes even if the animation fails to strike a chord....

Sayaka Murata, Chung Se Rang and seven other authors from across Asia lend their talents to a new collection of stories themed on the stresses...

Bunji Sotoyama’s film about a call girl service for senior citizens is elevated by its frank depictions of elder sex....

“Bad City” boasts some bone-crunching action, but seems more interested in proving the awesomeness of producer-star Hitoshi Ozawa....