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If youre not familiar with the horror anime subgenre, then Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre is a good place to start.

As films slip down the rankings over the decades, will we forget what made them seem great?

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, an award he is a perennial favorite to win.

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, an award he is a perennial favorite to win. Murakami said at Thursday's reading that he enjoys scary stories and wanted to write more of them. The event featured one from the 18-century collection “Tales of Moonlight and Rain,” which intrigued Murakami since his childhood and is known to have inspired his ...

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, an award he is a perennial favorite to win. Murakami said at Thursday’s reading that he enjoys scary stories and wanted to write more of them. The […]

Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, an award he is a perennial favorite to win.  Murakami said at Thursday's reading that he enjoys scary s...

Film scholar Suresh Chabria unpacks the meaning of nostalgia in a digital age.

There are a great many classic Japanese films that werent directed by Akira Kurosawa. Here are just a few of them.