CHRIS DONG/THE POINTS GUY I will start with the most aspirational way to get to Japan: All Nippon Airways first and business class. While the cost of first-class awards suffered a devaluation in early 2023, it's still great value. Business-class redemptions escaped the devaluation and remain...
SUMMER HULL/THE POINTS GUY Is it worth it to visit Tokyo Disney? Japan has more to offer than you could ever enjoy all in one visit, so it can be tough to decide whether it's worth devoting some of your precious time there to a theme park visit. Nothing is right for everyone, but...
Look. I can’t completely guarantee that another video out of Japan involving exploding boobs won’t start making the rounds on the internet. This is the internet and they are Japan. Why, it’s an entirely possibility that by six p.m. tonight, you’ll have watched nine Japanese videos t...
The story of a spirit-plagued mutant and a cursed biwa-playing monk who band together to revolutionize music in 14th-century Japan is part historical epic, part rock ’n’ roll origin story. There are some deep and painful themes here, about how regimes rewrite and reshape history with no ...
…Paramount is holding back the release of “Iron Man 2” in Japan for several weeks, having little fear about the country being swamped with bootleg copies of the film. However, when it comes to Korea, it’s a different story. “For better or worse, there are certain countries — notab...
Feudal Japan is infused with magic and mecha in this fictionalized retelling of the life of Yasuke, one of the only known African samurai. Like the actual historical figure, the eponymous Yasuke served under Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga during the Sengoku period in 16th-century Japan. Embittered ...
Demand is high—Japan produces more than double the number of porn films as the U.S., though America has more than twice its population. Even in the U.S., most aspiring men drop out when faced with the realities of porn. "We're not talking about splitting firewood here, but it is ...
The Super Incredible Guy, is the ninth Dragon Ball Z feature movie. It was released in Japan on July 10, 1993 at the Toei Anime Fair, where it was shown alongside the Dr. Slump movie N-cha! Pengin-mura yori Ai wo komete and the first YuYu Hakusho movie. The English version was ...
‘Tokyo Sonata’ director Kurosawa Kiyoshi and ‘Lupin the 3rd’ creator Monkey Punch, ‘The Legend of the Stardust Brothers’ is a breathless eruption of repressed artistic energy that captures the excess of ’80s Japan as it winningly enshrines one of the most glorious bands that never was....
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