Netflix has unveiled the first trailer for its latest live-action original series from Japan, Burn the House Down, set to launch globally on July 13.
A domestic revenge thriller, the show stars Mei Nagano (My Love Story!, Hanbun, Aoi) as Anzu Murata, a young woman whose childhood was torn apart when her family’s home burned down, prompting her parents to divorce. Convinced that her ailing mother was wrongly accused of the conflagration, Anzu goes undercover to work as a housekeeper for the suspicious woman who married her father in the wake of the blaze — convinced that she can gather evidence and discover the truth of what really happened.
The show is an adaptation of the popular manga Burn the House Down (Mitarai-ke Enjō Suru), which ran in Japan from 2017 to 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing began releasing the manga in English in June 2022.
‘Burn the House Down’
The lead cast includes: Asuka Kudo,...
A domestic revenge thriller, the show stars Mei Nagano (My Love Story!, Hanbun, Aoi) as Anzu Murata, a young woman whose childhood was torn apart when her family’s home burned down, prompting her parents to divorce. Convinced that her ailing mother was wrongly accused of the conflagration, Anzu goes undercover to work as a housekeeper for the suspicious woman who married her father in the wake of the blaze — convinced that she can gather evidence and discover the truth of what really happened.
The show is an adaptation of the popular manga Burn the House Down (Mitarai-ke Enjō Suru), which ran in Japan from 2017 to 2021. Kodansha USA Publishing began releasing the manga in English in June 2022.
‘Burn the House Down’
The lead cast includes: Asuka Kudo,...
- 6/20/2023
- by Patrick Brzeski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia (Ssff & Asia) 2023, one of the largest international short film festivals in Asia and accredited by the US Academy Awards® announced on April 27 on the festival’s official website the nominated films and special screening films.
Beginning with the opening ceremony on June 6 (Tuesday), this year’s film festival will be held at multiple venues in Tokyo until the award ceremony on June 26 (Monday). The online venue will open on April 27 (Thursday), where you can enjoy selected short films from all over the country until July 10 (Monday).
◆ Announcement of about 200 nominations selected from 5,215 works gathered from 120 countries and regions around the world
In the Japan section of the official competition leading to the Academy Awards® nomination, short films featuring actors turned directors Kengo Kora, Tao Tsuchiya, Taishi Nakagawa, Mansai Nomura, Hiroshi Tamaki and Eita Nagayama are among the nominees.
◆ Japan premieres and special screenings
Chris Rock...
Beginning with the opening ceremony on June 6 (Tuesday), this year’s film festival will be held at multiple venues in Tokyo until the award ceremony on June 26 (Monday). The online venue will open on April 27 (Thursday), where you can enjoy selected short films from all over the country until July 10 (Monday).
◆ Announcement of about 200 nominations selected from 5,215 works gathered from 120 countries and regions around the world
In the Japan section of the official competition leading to the Academy Awards® nomination, short films featuring actors turned directors Kengo Kora, Tao Tsuchiya, Taishi Nakagawa, Mansai Nomura, Hiroshi Tamaki and Eita Nagayama are among the nominees.
◆ Japan premieres and special screenings
Chris Rock...
- 4/29/2023
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
Tetsuo Shinobara‘s new film is a curiosity. If you didn’t know that the Japanese director is a very experienced one, you could think that „Inubu: Dog Club“ is the work of a novice.
“Inubu: Dog Club” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The story begins in the summer 2003 at the Towada veterinary college. Four students, three men and one woman, work hard to become veterinarians. Satoko is the most idealistic one of the four. He saves every dog he can, from the streets, but also from the laboratories of the college. Satoko gets regularly in trouble with one of his professors, because of his attitude. But he can, at the same time, impress him with his enormous enthusiasm and his work ethic. His colleagues are a little less confrontative, but still they help Satoko to run the dog club he dreams of.
Together they take abandoned dogs in,...
“Inubu: Dog Club” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
The story begins in the summer 2003 at the Towada veterinary college. Four students, three men and one woman, work hard to become veterinarians. Satoko is the most idealistic one of the four. He saves every dog he can, from the streets, but also from the laboratories of the college. Satoko gets regularly in trouble with one of his professors, because of his attitude. But he can, at the same time, impress him with his enormous enthusiasm and his work ethic. His colleagues are a little less confrontative, but still they help Satoko to run the dog club he dreams of.
Together they take abandoned dogs in,...
- 6/20/2022
- by Teresa Vena
- AsianMoviePulse
Ever since “Dangan Runner” the filmography of Hiroyuki Tanaka or Sabu has been defined by themes such as fate, destiny and coincidence, and how these affect our daily lives. Whether it is the salarymen in “Monday” or the bankrobbers in “Unlucky Monkey”, bizarre events, blended with a certain talent of the character for being clumsy and somewhat pedestrian at times, result in strange and often quite absurd development, which challenge the character’s greatest fears. In more recent films such as “Dancing Mary” Sabu has also (re-)implemented the idea of spirituality within the narratives of his movies, considering how our ways of defining our lives may even affect our well-being for good or worse. In “My Blood and Bones in a Flowing Galaxy”, whose cinematic release in 2020 had to be postponed due to the pandemic, he combines these aforementioned themes within a story which also deals with the topic...
- 6/1/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Kiyosumi Hamada (Taishi Nakagawa), a third-year high school student who is about to take the university entrance exam, happens to witness the scene where the first-year student, Kuramoto Kuri (Anna Ishii), who is hated by everyone, is being bullied. Kiyosumi, who has a stronger sense of justice than anyone else, helps her and tries to save the glass from bullying in the wake of the incident.
- 3/1/2021
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
Sabu‘s 16th fiction feature film “My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy” which screens in the ‘Current Waves’ program of PÖFF (Tallinn Black Nights) is based on the best-selling novel by Yuyuko Takemiya, the author of light literature on which the anime Toradora! and Golden Time are based. If I could summarize its plot in just one sentence, I would by no means use a single word from any of synopses I have read about it so far besides the names of the film’s protagonists.
Let’s start by calling it a joyride in the genre-themed amusement park. It all begins as a teenage saga, with a 17-year-old dreaming to became a hero like his dad, who lost his life few hours before his son was born. Hero is here not an exaggeration or a product of the boy’s fantasy about the parent he had never met; during a heavy flood,...
Let’s start by calling it a joyride in the genre-themed amusement park. It all begins as a teenage saga, with a 17-year-old dreaming to became a hero like his dad, who lost his life few hours before his son was born. Hero is here not an exaggeration or a product of the boy’s fantasy about the parent he had never met; during a heavy flood,...
- 11/21/2020
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
It was a good day for both Hirokazu Koreeda’s Palme d’Or winner “Shoplifters” as well as Kazuya Shiraishi’s crime thriller “The Blood of Wolves” who both managed to clean up at the 42nd Japan Academy Awards.
For a second year running, a Koreeda film managed to win most awards on the night, with “Shoplifters” picking up a total of eight awards.
The other big winner of the night was “The Blood of Wolves”, which, despite fierce competition in most of the categories in won in from Shoplifters” and others, managed to pick up an impressive four awards, including two for its male leading duo. The other two films to get a look-in were Mamoru Hosoda’s “Mirai” and Shinichiru Ueda’s “One Cut of the Dead“.
Check out all the winners below:s
Best Film: Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Best Animated Film: Mirai (Mamoru Hosoda)
Best Director: Hirokazu Koreeda...
For a second year running, a Koreeda film managed to win most awards on the night, with “Shoplifters” picking up a total of eight awards.
The other big winner of the night was “The Blood of Wolves”, which, despite fierce competition in most of the categories in won in from Shoplifters” and others, managed to pick up an impressive four awards, including two for its male leading duo. The other two films to get a look-in were Mamoru Hosoda’s “Mirai” and Shinichiru Ueda’s “One Cut of the Dead“.
Check out all the winners below:s
Best Film: Shoplifters (Hirokazu Koreeda)
Best Animated Film: Mirai (Mamoru Hosoda)
Best Director: Hirokazu Koreeda...
- 3/3/2019
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
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