making it an easy Japanese drama to begin watching. You can switch on any episode and it will make sense without having to have followed the series from the beginning.
Japanese Title: 悪は存在しない | Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Starring: Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani | Genre(s): Drama Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’sDrive My Cartopped our list of2021’s Japanese movies. In 2023, Hamaguchi returned with another excellent film,Evi...
This historical epic loaded with action and drama comes from the novel of the same title by James Clavell and was adapted for television by Rachel Kondo. the cast includes the talents of Cosmo Jarvis (Persuasion), Hiroyuki Sanada (Westworld, Hawkeye), Anna Sawai (Pachinko), Tadanobu Asano (...
Legendary director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, Until the End of the World) helms this engrossing drama about driving. A janitor living in Japan finds himself driving from job to job. During his commute, he finds pleasure in rock music. That’s just one of four short stories in this off...
This third edition of the Japanese Film Festival Online will be held in a record-breaking 27 countries and regions, with a wide variety of films and—for the first time since it was established—two thrilling TV drama series. The diverse lineup includes School Meals Time Graduation and The ...
This Japanese-French drama film is inspired by a song of the same name by musician Akiko Yano, originally released in 1991. Taeko, a married woman with a young son, is forced to confront her own feelings of love, loss, and forgiveness when her son’s long-lost father, Park, returns in...
This particular drama is in the same league as “Housekeeper Mita.” It came from an extremely popular book that was pulled off from the apparently true story of an オタク, which was posted on a public forum. It spawned this drama and also a movie version. ...
Drama Photograph: Toho Director: Mikio Naruse Less celebrated outside Japan than contemporaries such as Kurosawa and Ozu, Mikio Naruse’s social melodramas deserve equal attention – and this is masterpiece. The movie follows a young widow named Keiko (Hideko Takamine) and her struggle to find ...
Departures has moments of soft-spoken drama that spring from this calling, that of a traditional ritual mortician, but the movie has a much keener focus on reminding us of death. Obviously, there are a lot of different ways to make your audience think of death. Director Yōjirō Takita goes...
Noh theatre, traditional Japanese theatrical form and one of the oldest extant theatrical forms in the world. Noh—its name derived from nō, meaning “talent” or “skill”—is unlike Western narrative drama. Rather than being actors or “representers”