Director Takashi Miike‘s horror movie Audition is highly regarded among genre fans and often lands on best Japanese horror movie lists, and for good reason. Thanks to Peacock, more audiences can ...

The Tragedies of Mudan and Ryukyu,” a seven-years-in-the-making documentary exploring a pivotal 1870s incident that reshaped ...

It is called "fasuto eiga" (fast movie) in Japanese. Online videos of feature-length movies, edited down to about 10 minutes in running time with subtitles summarizing the plot, began to catch on ...

(Mainichi/Emi Naito) TOKYO -- 2024 was a year of major movement in the Japanese film industry, with two animated movies scoring big at box offices and a diversity of live-action productions.