The Osaka musician's remastered soundtrack for a 2014 art exhibition is a concerto of found sounds, guitar loops and intricate synthetic details that needles its ...

Photographer Hideka Tonomura's explores her interpretation of 'the essence of love and life' in a trio of projects that defies personal boundaries and societal limitations.

A sweeping show containing works by 25 artists who formed the core of the last significant woodblock print movement, championed by one savvy businessman, is ...

Director Yang Yonghi comes to terms with her mother’s past trauma and animosity toward South Korea in the moving final chapter of her documentary trilogy ...

Actor Song Kang-ho stands out in the director's incisive and at times heartwarming feature about a band of misfits involved in the black market for ...

With the success of the film 'Everything Everywhere All at Once,' the work of Shirley Kurata is in demand, but her personal style has always ...

While there is little museums can do to reduce the carbon footprint made by the air travel of tourists, they can cut back on the ...

Hirokazu Kore-eda and other Japanese directors have established a group to push for the creation of an organization to improve the working environment in the ...

Despite the break, the Grammy-nominated septet's label HYBE said that the pop juggernaut would still be working together.

The filmmaker behind “Grizzly Man” and “Fitzcarraldo” makes a late-career foray into fiction with “The Twilight World,” a new book about a real-life Japanese intelligence ...

The violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1714 during the Italian craftsman's "golden period," was put up by Tokuji Munetsugu, founder of the operator of ...

This year's edition of the museum's annual series, which invites contemporary artists to play off canonical pieces, nudges viewers into rethinking the art of seeing.

Architect Jorge Almazan and Studiolab, his research laboratory at Keio University, take an innovative approach to exploring the historical conditions that shaped Tokyo's eclectic cityscape.

Director Yoshikazu Yasuhiko rights past wrongs with this new interpretation of an infamous episode of the original “Mobile Suit Gundam” series that aired in 1979.

Though Kensaku Watanabe’s film follows a predictable story arc, it maintains a humorous vibe while exploring serious subjects such as facing fears and overcoming tragedy.

Musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto revealed that he has been battling stage 4 cancer in a monthly magazine released Tuesday.

None other than global pop star Harry Styles takes inspiration from one of Japan's most-talented musicians. The question is, will the West follow?

Readers will get a clear understanding of what colonial administrators were trying to achieve, but are largely left in the dark as to what the ...

Official Olympics documentaries can be as triumphant as a gold-medal performance or they can end up in infamy.

The short film festival celebrates the briefest of screen gems. Festival winners not only get the respect of their peers but a shot at an ...

Music acts are coming in from overseas and a hobbled festival scene is hoping to have its best year since the pandemic began.

Artists Masamichi and Kazuto Ichimaru are a father-and-son duo who run one of the strangest museums in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Veteran character actor Shogen's soft-spoken and self-abnegating portrayal of the hero manages to exude a quiet grit that comes off as authentic.

The centerpiece of "Longing and Other Stories" is "Sorrows of a Heretic," which can be viewed as a self-deprecating satire thanks to the narcissism of ...

Krishnakumar Kunnath's songs were featured in such films as "Om Shanti Om" and "Bachna Ae Haseeno." Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the nation would remember ...

The stage name was established in the latter part of the 17th century, and is considered the most prestigious of the Kabuki stage names.

Fiddling Leona and JP Mathes teach the art of the deal on the Netflix series "Swap Shop," a reality TV show that sees them antique ...

Now firmly established as cinema's king of cringe, Swedish director Ruben Ostlund takes a scalpel to bourgeois niceties in his film.

While the latest in the "Kamusari" series is full of information on folk culture, the story could use a slightly better narrator.

Police said emergency services were called early Thursday morning to a hotel in Santo Domingo where they found the actor already dead.

The group was behind a string of hits including "Enjoy the Silence," "Personal Jesus" and "I Feel You."

When Happy End released its debut album in 1970, a decision by members to sing in their native Japanese proved to be a radical move ...

The Japanese director works with an entirely South Korean cast in his new film about so-called baby boxes, where mothers can anonymously abandon their newborns.

While "Inu-Oh" contains good insights into how folk traditions are born, the visuals and music could've benefited from more variety.

Though charming, the film adaptation of a novel by Mizuki Tsujimura misses an opportunity to tackle the actual problems facing young animators.

Chie Hayakawa discusses the disturbing premise for her film "Plan 75" in which older people in Japan can swap their lives for a period of ...

While drumming itself has a long history in Japan, "taiko" performances as we know them are much more modern.

In his book, "Stories of Japanese Tea: The Regions, The Growers and The Craft," Zach Mangan hopes to pay respect to a dwindling number of ...

It is often said that great art comes from tragedy and struggle. Musician Vicke Blanka knows this all too well, and his latest track "Changes" ...

Tom Cruise flew into the Cannes Film Festival after a 30-year absence from the event. Elsewhere, a Russian director made a plea for peace.

A beautiful translation by Arthur Reiji Morris of "Solo Dance" will solidify Li Kotomi’s place in the next generation of Japanese writers.

Zainichi Korean filmmaker Sang-il Lee’s drama about the lasting effects of an unconventional attachment between a child and a grown adult reveals the brutal realities ...

Otaku "dream team" duo Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi join forces once again to revive another special-effects classic that’s fun and camp but lacks some ...

Kalush Orchestra received special authorization from Ukraine's government to attend Eurovision, since men of fighting age are prohibited from leaving the country.

The stories document the interviewees' changing relationships with both Britain and Japan and unveil the shifting views of Japan in Britain over many decades.

Artist Takashi Murakami returns to Manhattan's Gagosian Gallery for an exhibition titled "An Arrow Through History" in which he gives contemporary art a digital twist.

Makeup artist, Buddhist monk and LGBTQ advocate Kodo Nishimura’s memoir is a heartfelt and fun read that asks us to look inward with clear compassion ...

"Beautiful Star," a novel that the writer considered to be his masterpiece, is an absurd parody of society.

Koki Nakano’s latest release, informed by the primordial experience of floating in the womb, is imbued with pianist and composer's inventiveness and classical sensibility.

Author Mieko Kawakami imagines love reflecting the properties of light in her latest English release about the universality of loneliness.