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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
Director: Kevin Lima Language: English Disney’s fairy-tale princess is banished from the 2-D animation world to modern-day New York by a wicked witch. Prince Edward (James Marsden) pursues her there, but before he finds her, the princess (Amy Adams) is given shelter by a ...
Director: Mark Palansky Language: English Christina Ricci is Penelope, a rich girl born with a pig’s snout from a curse placed on an ancestor. Her overly protective mother (Catherine O’Hara) locks her in their mansion where potential blue-blooded suitors — whose love can lift ...
Director: Zach Helm Language: English The debut feature by Zach Helm (who penned “Stranger Than Fiction”) is about a magical toy store where all those paper planes and Lego blocks act like they’re alive, and its proprietor, 243-year-old Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman). The toys ...
Director: Joji Matsuoka Language: Japanese Based on a new story by veteran rakugoka (comic storyteller) Shinosuke Tatekawa, “Kanki no Uta (Ode to Joy)” is set in a small town somewhere in Japan. Trouble begins when Iizuka (Kaoru Kobayashi), a manager of a local cultural ...
Director: Karim Ainouz Language: Portuguese A portrait of 21-year-old Hermila (Hermila Guedes), who returns with her infant son to her hometown in northeast Brazil from Sao Paulo. Her boyfriend, the father of her son, has promised to join them but fails to show. Though ...
Director: Gabor Csupo Language: English Jess (Josh Hutcherson), an introverted boy with a talent for drawing, bonds with Leslie (Anna Sophia Robb), a free-spirited girl who has just moved in next door. They imagine that a nearby forest is a magical realm and, dubbing ...
Director: Jay Russell Language: English A family film about Angus (Alex Etel), a lonely Scottish boy, and his pet, who happens to be . . . the Loch Ness Monster. Set during World War II, Angus finds a large egg on the loch’s shore ...
Director: Giorgio Capitani Language: Italian This made-for-TV movie traces the love affair between opera diva Maria Callas and Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. It’s packed with stale dialogue and charts their 9-year romance — from their encounter at a posh party to his passionate ...
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Language: English A sequel to director Danny Boyle’s 2002 hit “28 Days Later,” this film follows a group of survivors six months after the “Rage” virus has annihilated Britain. Under the guidance of the U.S. Army, survivors come back to ...
Director: Jasmine Dellal Language: Various This documentary chronicles five Romani bands from four countries — Spain, Romania, Macedonia and India — touring North America for six weeks in 2001. The passionate performances of Antonio El Pipa’s flamenco ensemble, Indian folk troupe Maharaja, Romanian brass ...
Director: Mary Harron Language: English Fairly standard biopic on 1950s pinup Bettie Page, who was the underground version of Marilyn Monroe and marketed to people who preferred their cheesecake in six-inch heels, corsets and wielding a whip. Caught up in a congressional investigation into ...
Director: Irwin Winkler Language: English A formulaic drama about four American soldiers returning from the Iraq War: medic Will (Samuel L. Jackson), single mother Vanessa (Jessica Biel), Jamal (Curtis Jackson) and Tommy (Brian Presley). On their last mission in Iraq, they are ambushed — ...