Australia and New Zealand company Via Vision Entertainment is expanding its media distribution business with the launch of the Imprint Asia label. The brand will be launching with a host of new films including Cui Rui and Liu Xiang’s box office smash “Lost In The Stars,” Larry Yang’s action comedy “Ride On,” starring Jackie Chan and …
YOUNG girls cooking for other young girls ruled by women who are ruled by men—that should describe Kore-eda Hirokazu’s The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House. But that is not fair to this series, which evokes almost a lost era even when we are reminded that all these events are…
KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Prefecture--A special exhibition celebrating the life of Kinuyo Tanaka, one of the stars of the golden age of Japanese cinema who got her start in silent movies, is now being held in this historic coastal city that she called home for much of her life.