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The Deer King review – Studio Ghibli graduates take on dystopian deer tamer saga
Two grandees of Japanese animation adapt a Nahoko Uehashi fantasy novel that covers too much ground to take fl…
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Fruits Basket: Prelude review – heartrending anime series gets the ending no one deserves
A laboured recap and unsettling romance frustrates a potentially engrossing plot in a coda that might be offpu…
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Japanese creator of hit manga series Yu-Gi-Oh! dies aged 60
Kazuki Takahashi found in snorkelling gear floating in the sea off coast of Okinawa, reports sayA Japanese art…
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Imperial artwork: early photographs of life in Japan – in pictures
Taken around 1865, these amateur images by a Dutch physician offer up a fascinating glimpse inside the country…
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Pompo: The Cinephile review – a cliched manga love letter to movie-making
Takayuki Hirao’s animated feature is set in the fictional Nyallywood, where a B-movie producer in pigtails and…
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‘I was on a conveyor belt to death’: the astonishing worlds of Chiharu Shiota
After a frightening diagnosis, the Japanese artist is taking on mortality in her new show in Brisbane, using t…
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Japanese rockers Kikagaku Moyo: ‘Watching people board a train – that’s psychedelic!’
As they play Glastonbury on what will be their final tour, the unmissable psych-rockers talk about forging the…
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‘Colours help my heart and mind to heal’: Hiromi Tango, the artist using rainbows to cheer up the world
After a childhood shrouded in silence and depression, Tango has dedicated herself to a loud, vibrant career, e…
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Ambient music legend Midori Takada: ‘In Japan, artists keep going right into old age’
At 70, the groundbreaking musician is enjoying a late career bloom thanks to the internet. She talks about her…
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Queen’s A Night at the Opera inspires Japanese take on Romeo and Juliet
A Night at the Kabuki, which shifts the star-crossed lovers to 12th-century Japan, will visit London on an int…
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Stonehenge exhibition explores parallels with Japanese stone circles
Objects never before seen outside Japan will be part of show on site’s similarities to Jōmon monumentsThey wer…
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Japanese gaming company to sell Tomb Raider to Sweden’s Embracer
Tokyo-based Square Enix selling three studios in $300m dealThe Japanese gaming company behind Final Fantasy is…
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In praise of iyashikei: why we love soothing anime where nothing happens
Too tired to enjoy stressful telly after work? Perhaps you need slow anime, where the drama might be someone f…
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‘A difficult time’: why popular TV series Pachinko was met with silence in Japan
Experiences of zainichi, brought over as labourers, highlights bitter historical legacy between South Korea an…
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Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle review – Japanese soldier’s never-ending war
Robust, old-fashioned anti-war epic tells the true story of the soldier posted to the Philippines in the secon…
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Art of diplomacy: 300 years of Japanese art in Britain’s royal collection
A Queen’s Gallery exhibition tells the story of centuries of artistic and cultural exchange between east and w…
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Kyoto spring: the finest Japanese and world photography – in pictures
Alongside its famous cherry blossom, the city hosts an annual photography festival, Kyotographie, now in its 1…
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Kyoto spring: the finest Japanese and world photography – in pictures
Alongside its famous cherry blossom, the city hosts an annual photography festival, Kyotographie, now in its 1…
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Iron Chef is coming back: Adam Liaw celebrates Japan’s cult classic cooking show
Known for its flamboyant dubbing, costumes and absurd premise, Iron Chef transformed cooking into entertainmen…
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‘It’s just a film about grief and love’, says director of Japan’s first Oscar contender
Bafta and Golden Globe wins put Drive My Car on course to follow Parasite into Hollywood historyWhen Parasite …