Japan

A Sweet Record of Murder

By Lorry Kikta | July 2019

Some of the most creative, mind-bending, and twisted horror movies come out of South Korea. A Tale of Two Sisters, Old Boy,…

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Some of the most creative, mind-bending, and twisted horror movies come out of South Korea. A Tale of Two Sisters, Old Boy, The Host and more than I have...

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Asako lives in Osaka. She falls in love with Baku, a free-spirit. One day, Baku suddenly disappears. Two years later, Asako now lives in Tokyo and meets...

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Japanese hostess clubs are a fascinating cultural phenomenon: not quite brothels, they’re bars where groups of men can buy the “hostesses” overpriced...

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Whenever a film wins the Palme dˊOr at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, it always leads to a broader international audience and in some cases (such...

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Just outside of Tokyo’s busiest business corridor exists an unassuming alleyway of shipping container-sized bars. On the second floor at the end, there...

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In her debut feature film, Oh Lucy!, Japanese writer-director Atsuko Hirayanagi successfully expands her award-winning 2014 short film of the same name and...

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