Note: This interview was originally published as part of our 2025 festival coverage. The film opens in theaters on March 20.
Few films of late have better p...
Coming off last year's inaugural trip to the Tokyo International Film Festival, I noted how their devotion to world premieres and fresh Asian voices will effec...
A world-cinema fixture who's earned the support of Martin Scorsese, M. Night Shyamalan, Olivier Assayas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Béla Tarr, Claire Denis, Ch...
Japan is hardly known for placing limits on cinema; one might posit that young cinephiles largely enter the nation’s incomprehensibly dense corpus through its ...
If not quite so known as many of his Hong Kong contemporaries, Soi Cheang has mastered nearly every genre and style for which the national cinema is so beloved...
Little last year was a greater pleasure than attending the Tokyo International Film Festival, which combines numerous world premieres with restorations and fir...
