Motion Picture Association Tokyo panel discusses filming in Japan

Transformative technologies and their impact on film production, along with the growing attraction and remaining challenges of filming in Japan, were the focus of this year's Motion Picture Association (MPA) seminar at Tokyo International Film Festival. Kicking off the October 30 event in front of a packed house was Edward B. Neubronner of MPA's Asia … Read more

Japan celebrates Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto's World Series victory

The World Series trophy is headed to Los Angeles, but there are heartfelt celebrations across the Pacific Ocean, too, in Japan. People crowded on the edge of the Ginza shopping area in central Tokyo on Thursday afternoon as special single-sheet editions rolled off the printing presses, proclaiming Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto as … Read more

Ohtanimania drives World Series TV ratings to record levels in Japan

Japan has been obsessed with baseball for generations, but Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani's first World Series is taking the game to unprecedented levels of popularity in the country. The second game of the World Series between the Dodgers and New York Yankees attracted an average of 15.9 million viewers in Japan, about 12% … Read more

Doc by Rionne McAvoy captures the hidden poverty in Japan

Shibuya, a Tokyo neighborhood of seemingly perpetual redevelopment and gleaming skyscrapers filled with offices, shops and restaurants; the kind of place that makes it easy to forget that poverty exists in Japan. Perhaps an ideal place for a screening of Those Left Behind: The Plight of Single Mothers in Japana documentary that addresses an often … Read more

Hiroyuki Sanada on the idea of ​​filming 'Shogun' season 2 in Japan

[This story contains spoilers for season one of Shōgun.] Hiroyuki Sanada, star and producer of ShogunIt previews a bit the second season of the hit series. The actor was asked to The Hollywood Reporter and SAG-AFTRA's star-studded Emmy Nominees Night on Friday if the next season could potentially film in Japan. The first season was … Read more

Netflix's Anime Spin-Off Comes to Japan

The rather unlikely success of Terminator 2: Judgment Day — a big-budget sequel that overturned the entire plot of a low-budget original released nearly a decade earlier — led Hollywood to learn the wrong lesson. Instead of attributing box office success to James Cameron's creative versatility, the industry has decided that audiences must have an … Read more

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