The death of a towering Iranian filmmaker is the loss of an artist whose work carried his homeland's myths, language and ...

KUROSAWA AKIRA WAS LAID to rest in his work clothes: sporting his trademark hat and sunglasses and in a jacket he received along with an Oscar. The "emperor" of Japanese cinema died of a stroke at his ...

The Chinese writer’s fiction details how the country transformed on an intimate level after the Cultural Revolution.

Kokuho, Japan’s record-breaking cinematic triumph, is helping to redefine global perceptions of Japanese live-action film for ...

This great film of Tokyo is directed by Yasujirō Ozu; in the film, the Hirayama family is introduced as an aging couple who travel from the port of Onomichi to Tokyo to stay with their children when ...

The difference is that arthouse is art, and knows it. These are films which proudly aim beyond mere money-making for multinational media conglomerates. They push at the boundaries of the form, explore ...

Hollywood has been around for a long time, but I feel like not enough people know who the people were who came before them.

Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He began his career during the era of silent films. Ozu first made a number of short comedies, before turning to more serious themes in the ...

When “Superman” aka the Man of Steel aka Clark Kent returns this week, it’s hardly the familiar legend your parents knew. In writer-director-producer James Gunn’s reboot, his Superman – starring ...

JADE HINDMON: Welcome back to Midday Edition. I'm Jade Hindmon. San Diego filmgoers are still mourning the loss of the Ken Cinema, and more recently, the landmark Hillcrest cinemas, which shut down.

When Eileen Yoon and Grace Zhang, both BFA Film ’20, attended a screening of Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu’s feature Late Spring as part of a course at Pratt, they had no idea it would alter the ...