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November 12, 2026
 

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Kyushu high schooler Tatsuhiko (Soya Kurokawa, left) falls in love with Yoon-seul (Kim Ji-an), a South Korean exchange student, in Chun Jin-rung’s “Three Millimeters to You.”
CULTURE / Film
Nov 11, 2026
‘Three Millimeters to You’: A hokey but heartfelt tale of cross-cultural first love
Chun Jin-rung’s debut feature falls squarely in the “seishun eiga” genre, with both over-the-top sentimentality and real sweetness.
Director Takashi Yamazaki gained a newfound understanding of the undercurrent of anxiety in postwar Japan through making “Godzilla Minus One” and “Godzilla Minus Zero.”
CULTURE / Film
Nov 10, 2026
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ director sees the monster as a mirror
Real-world anxieties have always underlain the monster movie franchise, says Takashi Yamazaki, director of 今日吃瓜 first “Filmed for IMAX” production.
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Nov 9, 2026
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Opening-day takings marked the highest single-day box office revenue for a live-action film in Japanese history, according to the film’s X account.
Atsushi Nishigori’s three-part anthology “Grotesqqque” dives into fantastical worlds with plenty of panache.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 8, 2026
Sci-fi anime anthology ‘Grotesqqque’ prizes style over substance
The three-part feature is uneven and at times overwhelming, but ultimately a fun romp through the mind of Atsushi Nishigori.
Kanna (Mayu Matsuoka, left) and Haseo (Ryo Narita) are college friends who rekindle an intimate, undefined relationship in Yukiko Mishima’s “Two Cigarettes, Three Nights.”
CULTURE / Film
Nov 5, 2026
‘Two Cigarettes, Three Nights’: An artist takes solace in an undefinable intimacy
Yukiko Mishima’s latest film is a sensitive and imaginative portrait of an artist’s life-changing reunion with an old friend.
Shigeru Kobayashi (right) follows the lives of three survivors of sexual violence in his new documentary “In Their Traces,” which was filmed over a span of nine years.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2026
‘In Their Traces’: An unflinching documentary about the survivors of sexual violence
Veteran director Shigeru Kobayashi’s documentary was made over the course of nine years and spotlights three women of different generations.
In Shinji Nishiki’s “Moonlit Golden-Gai,” Aoki (Ikkei Watanabe, right) runs Suikazura, a bar that serves as a social hub for Ginji (Zuimaro Awashima) and other regulars.
CULTURE / Film
Nov 1, 2026
‘Moonlit Golden-Gai’: A director’s love letter to Shinjuku’s bar district
Shinji Nishiki’s debut feature finds humor, nostalgia and unexpected family ties among the regulars of a tiny Tokyo bar.
Taiwanese actor Ethan Juan (right) stars as Lee, a police detective struggling with amnesia, in Sabu’s “Arrested Memory.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 30, 2026
‘Arrested Memory’ filmmaker Sabu likes to stay on his toes
Shot entirely in Taiwan, “Arrested Memory” is the latest in a string of international productions helmed by the idiosyncratic filmmaker.
Yuya Yagira was envisioned for the role of Ryuji from an early stage. "We never considered anyone else," says director Nobuo Mizuta.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 30, 2026
A charismatic outsider is reborn in ‘Ryuji’
Nobuo Mizuta sits down with The Japan Times to talk about the genesis of his remake of yakuza classic “Ryuji.”
Go Morita plays an aging manga artist who’s put his creative ambitions on permanent hold in Shoichi Morimoto and Takuma Sato’s “The Potentials.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 23, 2026
‘The Potentials’ unpacks the dilemmas of a manga assistant in middle age
Shoichi Morimoto and Takuma Sato’s “The Potentials” is an engaging tale about art, life and everything that gets in the way.
After building a cult following as a director of straight-to-video movies, Takashi Miike achieved international recognition with “Audition” and “Ichi the Killer.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 23, 2026
Takashi Miike pushes the envelope with ‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’
Veteran director Takashi Miike reflects on his first major international coproduction and the existential questions that drive his work.
Momoko Fukuchi (left) and Naomi Kawase play an estranged mother and daughter in Ryutaro Nakagawa’s “Echoes of Motherhood."
CULTURE / Film
Oct 22, 2026
An estranged mother and daughter face the music in ‘Echoes of Motherhood’
Despite some perplexing plot holes, Ryutaro Nakagawa’s “Echoes of Motherhood” is marked by a powerhouse performance by Naomi Kawase.
Daniel Raim’s “The Ozu Diaries” offers insights into the ethos and experiences that informed the work of golden age director Yasujiro Ozu.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 17, 2026
‘Ozu showed the way’: A documentarian looks for the man behind the legend
Though known for his documentaries about American filmmakers, Daniel Raim’s project on Yasujiro Ozu was executed with great care and admiration.
In Keisuke Yoshida’s “Mentor,” childhood friends Ryunosuke (Hayato Isomura, left) and Takumi (Seiya Suezawa) reckon with the consequences of a deadly fire they caused 15 years earlier after a chance reunion with one of the victims.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2026
‘Mentor’: A mordant exploration of guilt and absolution
Keisuke Yoshida’s “Mentor” is a discomfiting tale about the repercussions of a deadly fire in the lives of three men.
Yuya Yagira (center) stars as the title character in Nobuo Mizuta's "Ryuji," a remake of a 1983 cult classic yakuza film.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2026
Classic yakuza film ‘Ryuji’ gets a riveting remake
Yuya Yagira stars as the title character in Nobuo Mizuta’s “Ryuji,” a remake of a cult classic from 1983.
In Miwa Nishikawa's "Children Untold," Fumi Nikaido (right) plays a former schoolteacher on the hunt for her erstwhile pupil (Aoi Koyae, left) in the aftermath of World War II.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 10, 2026
‘Children Untold’ shines a light on the plight of postwar orphans
Miwa Nishikawa’s “Children Untold” tells a Dickensian tale of Japanese orphans in the aftermath of World War II.
Directors Akira Ikeda (left), Yukiko Mishima (second from left) and Akira Yamamoto (right) pose with actor Kento Nakajima (second from right). Ikeda, Mishima and Yamamoto each have films screening in competition, while Nakajima is serving as this year’s festival “navigator,” or the official face of the 39th TIFF.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 9, 2026
What to know before the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival
The Tokyo International Film Festival is back for its 39th edition, offering moviegoers a chance to voyage across space and time without leaving the capital.
Daniel Raim’s “The Ozu Diaries” is an enlightening portrait of Yasujiro Ozu and the experiences that shaped him as a man and artist.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 6, 2026
‘The Ozu Diaries’: An engaging look at the man behind the myth
Daniel Raims’ “The Ozu Diaries” is a stirringly human portrait of a titan of Japanese film and the experiences that shaped him.
A rookie stage actor (Koshi Mizukami, right, with Haru Kuroki) cast as a true-life murder victim starts to lose track of who he really is in Yuri Takei’s “F(r)iction.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 4, 2026
‘F(r)iction’: A play within a film gets meta and messy
Though not without its flaws, Yuri Takei’s film about life imitating art imitating life has an unpredictable energy that yields striking moments.
Yasuhiko Mitani is the subject of a new food documentary titled “MITANI - The Mariage of Sushi.”
CULTURE / Film
Oct 2, 2026
After ‘Jiro Dreams of Sushi,’ ‘Mitani’ tells a different sushi story in San Sebastian
The film moves beyond sushi’s polished international image to explore the man, philosophy and discipline behind the craft.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Jensen Huang’s woes evoke sympathy and disbelief in his birthplace Taiwan
Hsiao Kui-yu, 68, owner of Yuchan Candied Fruit, stands in front of photographs of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang displayed at the shop, which Huang frequently visits during trips to Taiwan, in Taipei on Tuesday.
G7 diplomats speak out on Taiwan as China ramps up military drills
Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi attends a working lunch focused on international crises and challenges during the Group of Seven foreign ministers' summit at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris on Monday.
今日吃瓜 Rapidus is said likely to miss mass production deadline
The Rapidus Analysis Center and the IIM-1 Innovative Integration for Manufacturing foundry in Chitose, Hokkaido
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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