Directed by Masayuki Suo, the film was a box-office success both in Japan and America. Roger Ebert said of the film, “[it is] one of the more completely entertaining movies I've seen in a while ...

The mean streets of Tokyo and neon-lit harbors became the backdrops for these movies. What makes Japanese noir movies stand ...

Once a month it screens a Japanese movie for free. The cinema, Milim, has close ties with an indie theater called Jack and Betty in Yokohama, Japan. Last year, when tensions were flaring ...

Sometimes, the search for the biggest scare possible may take you overseas and into an exploration of Japanese ... print and online publications), and a brief stint of reviewing movies for fun.

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 ...