Tatsuya Nakadai, the last star of the golden age of Japanese cinema, has died at 92.
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Anime characters often face challenges that connect to long-standing Buddhist and Shintō teachings. In this course, students look closely at what anime is saying about life.
Grief is not about building a new life without the person you’ve lost but about finding new ways of incorporating them into your ongoing reality.
One hundred years after her birth, Hideko Takamine’s films deserve to be more widely seen outside Japan
Wim Wenders’ latest film invites viewers to reflect on their ageing bodies.
An homage to Honda Ishiro’s original 1954 film, the new hit Japanese film Godzilla Minus One centres on the human costs of war.
The film asks how individuals and communities can tackle disaster while embracing an ethos of mutual aid that sidesteps yearning for nationalist policies that lead to even more harm.
Suzume stands its ground in the large collection of films and literature coming to terms with the memory of Japan’s 2011 triple disaster.
Kon Ichikawa’s documentary of the 1964 games is one of the great sporting documentaries – if not simply one of the great documentaries.
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