The film's story is set in a town nestled in the mountains. Second-year high school student Aoi Aioi is an aspiring musician Aoi Aioi. Her older sister Akane's ex-boyfriend Shinnosuke Kanomura is a struggling guitarist. Aoi and Akane's parents passed away ...

Three years after Your Name, Makoto Shinkai returns with his latest film, Weathering With You. When a small town high schooler Hodaka Morishima makes a go at living on his own in Tokyo for the first time, it isn’t long before he ...

The award-winning story follows a young girl named Suzu Urano (voiced by Non 能年玲奈), who in 1944 moves to the small town of Kure in Hiroshima where she marries Shusaku Hojo (voiced by Yoshimasa Hosoya 细谷佳正)—a young clerk who works at ...

In Japan, the ‘Japanese Academy Awards’ is equivalent to the ‘Oscars’ in the United States. To win ‘Best Lead Actress’ award is no small feat, especially when you are a foreigner competing for it. As the only foreigner nominated alongside four ...

Image credit: Encore Films Japanese animation ‘Weathering With You’ clinched the ‘All-time No. 1 Japanese animation in Singapore’, with a cumulative total box office of S$1,037,620 in Singapore as of 1 October 2019. The film sneaked from 7 to 11 September and ...

The annual Japanese Film Festival (Singapore) is happening this Friday.  It will open to a sold-out screening of the hot-favorite independent zombie comedy One Cut of the Dead, followed by a dozen more film screenings over a period of three weeks, concluding with ...

C3 Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2018 (#C3AFASG18), South East Asia’s biggest and most prestigious Japanese Pop Culture event, returns 30 November to 2 December 2018 at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre. Organisers, SOZO, shared a preview of the 10-year anniversary exclusive line-up of activities, ...

  ArtScience Museum will be presenting Specters and Tourists, a moving image exhibition by Japanese filmmaker and artist, Daisuke Miyazaki, from 11 November to 17 December, in conjunction with this year’s Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF).   Seen through the eyes of Miyazaki, Specters ...

Film Still from 'Land', by Masanobu Hiraoka Three Japanese animation directors - Masanobu Hiraoka, Eri Kawaguchi and Asami Ike will be presenting their animated films at the National Museum of Singapore, as part of the inaugural 'Anime-Asean' festival. They will be joined with works by Singaporean animation directors. In ...

The past two years we have seen quite a number of movies adapted from Japanese manga. As much as this Japanese pop culture seems all the same to us, manga/anime is actually sub-divided into categories such as shounen (少年), shoujo (少女) ...