Category : Culture

Three months since its worldwide release, Christopher Nolan’s film about the creator of the atomic bomb, “Oppenheimer,” has yet to be seen in the only...

Being a concierge at an upscale department store can be a demanding job — especially when your clients aren’t even the same species....

From his 2005 feature debut “Bare-assed Japan” to the 2011 film “Mitsuko Delivers,” Yuya Ishii made scrappy indie films with a raucous comic edge that...

Between the 17th and late 19th centuries, Japan boasted a vibrant culture of erotic art known as shunga. Some of the biggest names in ukiyo-e...

Where is it? I scan the road to the left, sweep across to the right, travel its length a second time, squint a bit. The...

Last year, nearly 85,000 individuals went missing in Japan. There is even a term in Japanese to describe them: jōhatsusha (evaporated people). Takahito Hara focused...

Films about jazz musicians tend to fall into two categories: ones that focus on personal drama at the expense of the music and ones that...

At a bar in Euljiro, one of Seoul’s up-and-coming hip neighborhoods, two voices intertwined in a duet. One was high-pitched, the other an octave lower....

For the past two decades, the Tokyo-based Chelfitsch theater company has been creating a form of eco-critical performance in Japan, confronting political and environmental crises...

The sinking feeling starts almost immediately during “The Silent Service.” Amazon Prime Video’s first Japanese original movie is being marketed as a production with international...