“Drive My Car”s Oscar-winning director Ryusuke Hamaguchi is set to make his next film, “All of a Sudden,” in Paris with a glamorous female duo led by Virginie Efira (“Benedetta”) and Tao Okamoto (“The ...

As pop culture continues to fracture, our critic was drawn to art and performances that explored universal themes by way of specific settings. By Salamishah Tillet Ryusuke Hamaguchi follows up his ...

The word communication is uttered frequently in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s spellbinding Happy Hour, a film that devotes much of its epic length to showing how emotions are conveyed and dissembled, whether ...

In an era where print magazines continue to shutter (most recently Cinema Scope and Total Film), it’s always a breath of fresh air for the industry of film journalism when a new one enters the game.

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

The 2025 Japan Film Festival in Manila will hold free screenings of animated and live-action Japanese classics in theaters across the country ...

Shiguéhiko Hasumi — mentor to Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Ryusuke Hamaguchi — will present the Japan Society retrospective, which is ...