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Takayuki Hayashi's debut feature 'From Dawn Till Noon on the Sea' revolves around three troubled souls and the aftermath of a kidnapping.
North America's largest Japanese film festival presents two weeks of contemporary movies from Japan, including opening film THE FIRST SLAM DUNK directed...
'Ride or Die' Review: Miles Ahead of Japan's Stereotypical LGBTQ Films Strong female agency helps this passionate and sensual road movie blaze a trail. Maggie Lee, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail In the spirit of “Thelma and Louise,” a lesbian fugitive and the woman she’d kill for hit the road with three stilettos and a blood-red BMW in “Ride or Die.” A glammed up, erotically-charged cocktail of amour fou and true romance directed by Ryuichi Hiroki and written by Nami Kikkawa, the Netflix production gives agency to full-blooded female protagonists. That’s a rarity in Japan’s s...