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KENTO YAMAZAKI

Abe no Seimei (Kento Yamazaki), an apprentice at a school of mystic arts, gets wrapped up in a murder investigation in ¡°The Yin Yang Master Zero.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Apr 4, 2024
¡®The Yin Yang Master Zero¡¯: Imaginative action film casts a dazzling spell
Shimako Sato¡¯s VFX-heavy, big-budget fantasy about practitioners of mystic arts goes beyond the genre standard.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 24, 2021
¡®The Door into Summer¡¯: Some doors are best left closed
An orphaned genius travels to the future and back in Takahiro Miki¡¯s treacly sci-fi, ¡°The Door Into Summer,¡± based on the 1957 novel of the same name by Robert A. Heinlein.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 3, 2020
¡®Alice in Borderland¡¯: Deadly journey through the looking glass leaves little impression
Netflix¡¯s sci-fi suspense series about a young man forced to go through a series of twisted challenges takes place in a cityscape that looks all too familiar in 2020.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 16, 2020
¡®Theatre: A Love Story¡¯: No sparks in this tortured romance
Based on a novel by comedian-turned-author Naoki Matayoshi, ¡°Theatre: A Love Story¡± centers on a narcissistic playwright and his long-suffering girlfriend.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 6, 2020
¡®Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku¡¯: A musical take on an otaku romance
This film adaptation of a web comic by single-named artist Fujita has the central couple dancing and singing their way to love.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 28, 2019
¡®Ni no Kuni¡¯: Two worlds but little life to be found
Two things about ¡°Ni no Kuni.¡± 1) It features a protagonist who uses a wheelchair, an admirable display of diversity and inclusion in a medium that rarely features characters with disabilities. 2) There isn¡¯t much else to like about the film.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 17, 2019
¡®Kingdom¡¯: An admirable try at Chinese history
Why should Japanese kids care about a manga set in China¡¯s Warring States Period, (475-221 B.C.)? The players and power struggles are hard enough for professional historians (and this reviewer) to grasp, let alone 10-year-olds.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 15, 2017
¡®One Week Friends¡¯: Groundhog day in the ¡®friend zone¡¯
Someday soon someone is going to come up with an algorithm for commercial seishun eiga (youth films). Plug in the variables ¡ª teenaged love in its more innocuous variations being first and foremost ¡ª and pop out a script for another hit.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 1, 2016
¡®Doctor X¡¯; ¡®The Man With the Divine Tongue¡± Kagome
Ryoko Yonekura returns as the genius freelance surgeon Dr. Michiko Daimon in a special two-hour installment of ¡°Doctor X¡± (TV Asahi, Sun., 9 p.m.).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 18, 2016
¡®Wolf Girl and Black Prince¡¯: The dogged persistence of teen love
Girls go for bad, abusive guys, while relegating nice, decent ones to the dreaded ¡°friend zone¡°: A misogynistic lie or the cold, hard truth? Ryuichi Hiroki¡¯s ¡°Wolf Girl and Black Prince¡± seems to say the latter, starting with its premise. A naive, socially inept high school girl agrees to become the...
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Mexican man arrested over attempt to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan
Mexican alligator lizards seized by Tokyo Customs from a Mexican man who attempted to smuggle them into Japan on Saturday through Haneda Airport
Gut bacteria may be behind many of Â鶹´«Ã½ colorectal cancer cases
A Japanese research team found that a toxin produced by certain E. coli strains, colibactin, caused genetic mutations in nearly half of colorectal cancer cases studied
She is Russia¡¯s richest woman. Her business empire is going up in flames.
Tatyana Kim, the head and co-founder of Wildberries, speaks about Ukrainian drone attacks on the company's warehouses in the course of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, at an unidentified location, in this still image from a handout video released on July 31.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ concrete jungles sizzle, urban forestry offers an all-natural fix
People and birds find relief from the sun in Tokyo's Nakano Ward earlier this month. While experts agree that urban greening is crucial to mitigating the impact of climate change, trees are becoming even more scarce in Japanese cities.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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