Numerous small cinemas in Japan, forced to close or cut hours ... and other efforts intended to help movie theaters. Unlike past efforts produced in the small cinema community, which tended ...
Meanwhile, a small theater in the city in Incheon is trying to keep interest in Japanese cinema alive. Once a month it screens a Japanese movie for free. The cinema, Milim, has close ties with an ...
For hundreds of years, the Japanese theater form of Kyogen solely existed as comic relief entertainment during the intermissions of dramatic Noh performances. However, the 600 year-old Kyogen practice ...
The daunting project of transforming one of Japan’s most popular animated movies into a theater production has proved a success. In late June, a sold-out London Coliseum featured “Spirited ...
Japanese anime director Hayao Miyazaki’s “The Boy and the Heron,” which hit theaters in China in April, became the 10th-highest-grossing film of 2024. Other popular Japanese movies include a ...