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NANA KOMATSU

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 3, 2022
¡®The Last 10 Years¡¯: Keep a hanky handy for this weepy romance
Michihito Fujii¡¯s splashy terminal illness drama can¡¯t help succumbing to the usual genre tropes.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 11, 2021
¡®Parasite in Love¡¯: Pulpy drama has young love on the brain
Kensaku Kakimoto¡¯s moody romance has an interesting premise about the relationship between love and mental illness, but it doesn¡¯t quite settle on the right tone.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 3, 2021
¡®Moonlight Shadow¡¯: Dream-like mood piece depicts grief with aching clarity
Nana Komatsu¡¯s performance as a woman mourning a lost love anchors Edmund Yeo¡¯s seductive adaptation of a Banana Yoshimoto short story.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 11, 2020
¡®Sakura¡¯: A family held together by dogged devotion
Hitoshi Yazaki turns Kana Nishino¡¯s novel about a family overcoming tragedy with the help of their dog into an amiable but wildly uneven drama.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 30, 2019
¡®Family of Strangers¡¯: An admirable ode to the institutionalized
Hideyuki Hirayama¡¯s latest feature, filmed in a real psychiatric hospital in Nagano Prefecture, tells the story of three residents of an institution who form an unlikely bond
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 22, 2019
¡®Farewell Song¡¯: Guitars without rock ¡®n¡¯ roll excess
Of all the many breeds of musician out there, few are as stubbornly uncinematic as acoustic singer-songwriters. Forget flamboyance, creative excess, clashing egos and all the other qualities that tend to attract filmmakers to the music industry in the first place. The average singer-songwriter gig is...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 4, 2016
¡®Hero Mania¡¯: Japanese heroes are keeping it real
Why don¡¯t Japanese audiences turn up in big numbers for Hollywood superhero movies? The rare success in Japan of the Spider-Man series suggests one answer: Japanese like superheroes just fine, as long as they¡¯re flawed humans as well as heroic fighters for justice.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Apr 22, 2016
NNN Document 16; Fukigen-na Kajitsu; WOWOW
Tokai Television has become an expert on the subject of adoption in Japan, and this Sunday it will air the latest installment in its series ¡°NNN Document 16¡± (Nippon TV, 12:55 a.m.)
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 7, 2015
¡®Bakuman¡¯ depicts a life-or-death quest for manga success
High school kids dream big dreams, and in Japan one of the biggest is to be a successful manga artist. The financial rewards for a hit manga published in a national magazine and sold in paperback editions are substantial. And the accompanying recognition and power ¡ª with adoring fans pleading for autographs...
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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