Oyaji no Senaka
Oyaji no Senaka is a 10-episode series anthology focusing on fathers’ relationships with their children and families, written and directed by ten different teams of creatives and featuring ten different sets of actors.
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Around the World: It’s All About Japanese Cinema at the Shanghai Film Fest
The event of the week is the beginning of the Shanghai International Film Festival, starting on June 16th and ending the 24th, showcasing a broad variety of films… including A LOT of Japanese films in its different programs.
The Banana Guide to Asian Entertainment: It’s All About Japan: Part II
The part in which we explore the Japanese drama format.
Galileo (Jdrama)
Galileo is a 2007 Japanese series of 10 episodes starring Masaharu Fukuyama and Kou Shibasaki, following Dr. Yukawa — a physicist obsessed with finding answers to the cases that rookie detective Utsumi thinks are impossible to solve.
Ohoku (Japanese Film)
Based on the on-going manga series by Fumi Yoshinaga, Ohoku tells the story of an Edo period alternate universe Japan, in which the male population is stricken by a bizarre disease, which shifts the ratio of men to women to 1:4, turning society upside down and giving the most powerful position in society to a female Shogun.
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac, adaptation of the Japanese novel by Gabrielle Zevin of the same name, stars popular Japanese actor/idol Horikita Maki as Naomi, who loses the memory of her boyfriend and her male best friend.
