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Live-action adaptation of Chainsaw Man creator's Look Back will escape Japanese cinemas and come to the west

Look Back has locked in a US and UK release

Total Film

The Guide #214: Sleep-inducing songs and tranquilising TV – the culture that sends us to sleep (in a good way)

In this week’s newsletter: Inspired by a Guardian series, the sights and sounds our culture critics turn to for help when the sandman is asleep on the job

The Guardian - UK

The 15 Best Japanese Shows Streaming on Netflix Right Now

They're some of the streamer's most underrated shows.

Marie Claire

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‘Asura is the best Netflix drama in years’: this strikingly beautiful show will leave you salivating

Palme d’Or-winning Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s tale of four sisters is a stunningly shot, laugh-out-loud tale that’s hugely touching. How has it gone almost unnoticed?

The Guardian - UK

Netflix has just dropped a new show from an award-winning director with no promotion, and viewers are loving it

Asura is being called a "gem" and "the year's first great TV"

Total Film

This family drama movie on Tubi is a must-watch for 'Parasite' fans — and it's 99% on Rotten Tomatoes

While more understated than 'Parasite,' 'Shoplifters' will steal your heart. Now you can watch it for free on Tubi.

Tom’s Guide

Winona Ryder explains why majority of modern day child stars annoy her

Actor has starred alongside child actors in movies and shows including ‘Stranger Things’

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The best films of 2024 in the UK so far

Seduced by Sam Taylor-Johnson’s woozy Amy Winehouse biopic and kicked into tomorrow by Dev Patel’s Monkey Man, we replay six fantastic months of film

The Guardian - UK

Monster review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s subtle, smart and beautiful work is up there with Shoplifters

This deals with very modern themes in a far more real way than many of its Western counterparts

Evening Standard

Asian talents score big at Cannes

From Japan to Malaysia by way of Vietnam, Asian filmmakers of disparate sensibilities triumphed at the recently-wrapped 76th Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d'Or may have gone to French filmmaker Justine Triet from her tense drama Anatomy Of A Fall, but six other awards handed out by the world's most…

Bangkok Post

Sympathy for the monster

Great filmmakers cling to their obsessions, fine-tuning them, polishing them, and returning to them over and over as if they were breathing the only air that keeps them alive. Hirokazu Kore-eda keeps telling the story of broken families and their casualties, especially children, often cast adrift and always looking for…

Bangkok Post

Cannes 2023 week one roundup – from Depp to Godard, the chaotic circus rolls on

Enraging, bracing and sublime, the 76th edition of the French film festival kicks off with a controversial visit from Johnny Depp and gallops through films from Pedro Almodóvar, Catherine Corsini, Steve McQueen and more

The Guardian - UK

Koreeda praises screenwriter for new film at Cannes

CANNES, France -- Following the official screening of "Kaibutsu" ("Monster") at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, the film's director, Hirokazu Koreeda, said he enjoyed collaborating with screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Postcard from Cannes #2 : If I could turn back time

There was high emotion at the Cannes Film Festival with Harrison Ford receiving an honorary Palme d’Or award on Thursday. The 80-year-old American actor was in town for the premiere of "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny". As with several films in Cannes, it takes the notion of time…

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Africa’s ‘Cannes moment’ opens with tribute to Malian great Souleymane Cissé

The record number of African films at the 76th Cannes Film Festival has fuelled talk of a moviemaking revival on the continent, powered by a new generation of female directors. Fittingly, this year’s Carrosse d’Or award, part of the Directors Fortnight strand, went to Mali’s Souleymane Cissé, the veteran director…

Bangkok Post

10 films to watch out for

A fierce hijab girl, a Vietnamese pilgrimage, a Scorsese-DiCaprio team up and a new Cate Blanchett drama, Cannes Film Festival opens today with an eclectic taste of world cinema.

The Guardian - UK

Cannes 2023: Ken Loach, Martin Scorsese and Jonathan Glazer premieres feature in strong lineup

Festival programme includes arthouse heavyweights and returning favourites such as Todd Haynes, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Wim Wenders and Wes Anderson

Boston Herald

Review: ‘Broker’ soars as satisfying, strange road trip

A wonderfully strange twist on a road movie, “Broker” is the darker version of “Little Miss Sunshine,” not that “Little Miss Sunshine” was all sweetness and light. Written and directed by Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda (“After the Storm”), “Broker” bears some resemblance to Koreeda’s Academy Award-nominated 2018 effort “Shoplifters.” We’re…

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French festival celebrates diversity of vintage Indian cinema

The 44th edition of the Festival des 3 Continents has opened in the western French city of Nantes. This year’s event honours Indian cinema, with an eclectic programme dedicated to the golden years of filmmaking from 1970 through to 1990.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Koreeda film's lead actor wins at Cannes

CANNES, France -- Song Kang-ho of South Korea won best actor for his role in "Broker," directed by Hirokazu Koreeda, at the 75th Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

S.Korea Has Big Cannes Night with Actor, Director Awards

The South Korean cinema industry added to a global winning streak on Saturday by scooping two key prizes at the Cannes Film Festival for a pair of beloved veterans. Star film-maker Park Chan-wook clinched the best director award for his erotic crime movie "Decision To Leave" while Song Kang-ho, best…

The Guardian - AU

Cannes 2022: South Korea scoops record awards haul

Parasite star Song Kang-ho becomes first South Korean male to win an acting prize, while director Park Chan-wook wins for Decision to Leave

Radio France Internationale

Postcard from Cannes #8: Making ends meet

Besides love stories, one of the recurring themes in films shown at Cannes this year is overcoming economic hardship, by any means possible. Two films in the main competition show very different families, from Iran and South Korea, who come up with ingenious and precarious plans to make ends meet.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kore-eda Brings Korean Road Trip Drama to Cannes with ‘Broker’

Acclaimed Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda collaborated with an all-star Korean cast for his story of three crooks and a baby in "Broker", which premiered Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival in southern France. Song Kang-ho, known for his role in Oscar-winning black comedy "Parasite", plays one of a duo of…

The Guardian - UK

Broker review – Kore-eda gets the tone all wrong in sudsy Korean baby adoption tale

The director of Shoplifters shows naivety in trying to turn two baby kidnappers into lovable rogues. Even Parasite’s Song Kang-ho can’t make it stick

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