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While Hayao Miyazaki’s return to filmmaking, “The Boy and the Heron,” did not attain the ¥10 billion milestone that the beloved animator’s movies had once routinely surpassed, it debuted at the top of the North American box office and became the first original anime film to lead the box office in the United States and Canada.
CULTURE / Film / 2023 in Review
Dec 15, 2023
Japan’s auteurs and anime triumphed in 2023
From Hayao Miyazaki's “The Boy and the Heron” to Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Monster,” the box-office hits kept coming.
Contrary to some news reports, the movie "Oppenheimer," starring (left to right) Matt Damon, Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh, has not been banned in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 27, 2023
'Oppenheimer' spurs debate on the atomic bombings
Christopher Nolan’s biopic has triggered a debate on the rights and wrongs of dropping the bomb. It could lead to a more useful discussion in Japan — assuming it’s ever released here.
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CULTURE / Film
Apr 30, 2023
Super Mario creator says new movie humanizes popular game character
"The Super Mario Bros. Movie" is expected to become the first film this year to gross $1 billion at the global box office, according to U.S. media.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Apr 12, 2023
Move over 'Minions,' it’s Mario time at the movies
The iconic plumber Mario is set to make more at the box office than any animated movie. But don’t expect a Nintendo Cinematic Universe just yet.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 11, 2023
'Super Mario Bros. Movie' success gives boost to Nintendo's IP push
The much-anticipated movie has made a record-breaking debut at the box office.
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CULTURE / Film
Apr 1, 2021
‘Signal The Movie Cold Case Investigation Unit’: Obvious but with plenty of panache
This cop thriller based on a 2018 Fuji TV series may be gimmicky, but it delivers in the action department.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 5, 2020
'Shirobako the Movie': Unboxing the nitty-gritty of anime
Tsutomu Mizushima's television series about the ins and outs of making anime movies gets the big-screen treatment, bringing back familiar characters, situations and jokes.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
May 15, 2019
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets 'best fight' MTV Movie award nod
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg scored nominations on Tuesday for the 2019 MTV Movie and TV awards, where she will compete for top honors with blockbuster offerings "Game of Thrones" and "Avengers: Endgame."
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CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Apr 25, 2019
Okinawa rolls out the red carpet for its annual film festival
The Okinawa International Movie Festival has never been just about movies — or even Okinawa. Held from April 18 to 22, the 11th edition was a showcase for the talents of sponsor Yoshimoto Kogyo — an Osaka-based agency that supplies Japanese TV with many of its comedians and emcees.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Sep 4, 2018
Yemenis find solace in cinema after years of war in flick about their plight
Yemenis filed into a makeshift cinema for the first time since fighting broke out in their city of Aden more than three years ago — and watch some of their own story reflected back at them on the projector screen.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Aug 25, 2018
Making the cut in Japan's film industry
Film producer Yukie Kito talks about making movies, her favorite actor and how the entertainment industry in Japan differs to that in the U.S.
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BUSINESS
Apr 5, 2018
AMC set to open Saudi Arabia's first movie theater, plans 99 more
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CULTURE / Books
Nov 18, 2017
Ishiro Honda: The master behind Godzilla
Everyone knows "Godzilla," the 1954 film that introduced Japan's most famous monster to the world. But the name of its director, Ishiro Honda, was for a long time only mentioned by foreign critics and fans in passing, if at all.
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CULTURE / Film
Oct 18, 2017
'Outrage Coda': Takeshi Kitano's kill count climbs high for trilogy's finale
In his nearly three decades as a director, "Beat" Takeshi Kitano has won many critical plaudits and prizes abroad. But in Japan he is best known as a TV personality and comedian. These two strands of his artistic personality — master director and mass entertainer — have come together in his "Outrage" trilogy about present-day gang wars, with Kitano himself starring as an old-school yakuza, Otomo.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 16, 2017
'Meatball Machine Kodoku': Proud to be a bloody mess
In a career spanning three decades, Yoshihiro Nishimura has done about every job on the credit crawl — from gaffer to director. He is best known, however, as a mad master of effects and makeup, spewing blood sprays that achieve a certain demented grandeur and building fantastic creatures that resemble raging piles of medical waste with body parts attached.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Apr 8, 2017
Shinsuke Fujimoto makes his mark in the Korean film industry
Shinsuke Fujimoto is a rarity in the booming South Korean film industry. Despite having no connections in the local movie scene, the Ishikawa Prefecture native flew to Seoul straight after graduating college and has managed to make a living working on various film sets for over a decade.
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JAPAN
Jul 22, 2016
Toei flick with smartphone-based voice guidance to debut for vision-impaired
The nation's first movie to feature voice guidance via smartphone will debut Saturday for the visually impaired.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 13, 2016
'El Chapo' tried to trademark name, sought biopic, was briefly in marine's sights after Penn meeting
Before his brazen jailbreak last year, notorious drug boss Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman instructed his lawyers to trademark his name, giving Mexican authorities their first clue he wanted to make a film of his life, local media said on Tuesday.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 18, 2015
4D introduces new viewing option for 'Star Wars' fans
In preparation for the much-anticipated worldwide release of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Toho Cinemas Ltd. has tripled its so-called 4D motion effects theaters to nine stretching from Tokyo, Yokohama, Kawasaki and Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, to Nanba in Osaka.
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 2, 2015
'The Peanuts Movie' stays true to its comic strip roots
There are no grown-ups in "The Peanuts Movie." More importantly, there are no villains or evil schemes. There's a gentle, insecure little boy named Charlie Brown, his beagle and a gaggle of friends — that's about it.

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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world