The man at the memorial hall had a kind smile. He swiveled in his chair behind the front desk as she came in, and looked at her over his reading …
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Bargain (Jeon Woo-sung, South Korea 2023) A man hires a high school girl for a good time at a secluded hotel, but each is in fact trying to ensnare the …
76 Days (Anonymous, Chen Weixi & Wu Hao, USA 2020) Remarkable for being one of the first documentary features about Covid-19 off the assembly line—and also the first to screen at …
37 Seconds (HIKARI, Japan/USA 2019) An astonishing directorial debut from Osaka-born filmmaker HIKARI, this moving coming-of-age drama is about Yuma (Kayama Mei), a skilled manga artist with cerebral palsy who desires …
It is time for the concluding part of our interview with Rice Bud, John Ogawa! We look at more pictures to learn about other cultural norms in Japan like first …
Chikaura Kei’s confident debut feature is the story of a Chinese economic migrant whose shaky existence begins to unravel after a string of deceits and crimes he has committed to …
Asians Elsewhere continues. In Part 2, Episode 1, John tells us about growing up in Japan through photos. Important questions are explored like “Why boy shorts so short?”, “Rando what?”, …
Nowadays, it’s pretty common to find Asians (nearly) everywhere in the world. But people still have perceptions thinking a person or a country is this way or that. The Asians …
When a British newspaper interviewing Kore-eda Hirokazu in 2015 asked how he felt about his signature family dramas often being compared to those of the late Ozu Yasujiro, the respected …
Obachan is a force to be reckoned with. She guides me through Tokyo Station with the speed and efficiency of someone less than half her age. Her body, eighty-three years …
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