Tasuku Emoto - The Japan Times

Film / Reviews Aug 29, 2018

'And Your Bird Can Sing': A vague take on the complexities of youth

by James Hadfield

The work of the late novelist Yasushi Sato, who took his own life in 1990, has been enjoying a minor cinematic renaissance over the past decade. Starting with Kazuyoshi Kumakiri's "Sketches of Kaitan City" in 2010, the author's stories have spawned four films to ...

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'Lockheed Incident Document 40th Year Shocking Scoop'; 'Yassan'; Xflag

by Philip Brasor

Thanks mainly to a first-person "biography" written by former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, there is renewed interest in disgraced former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. NHK is presenting a series of special programs, some of which are dramatizations, about the scandal that brought Tanaka down: ...