A laboured recap and unsettling romance frustrates a potentially engrossing plot in a coda that might be offputting to newcomers and the fanbase alikeA coda to a hugely popular manga and anime series, Fruits Basket: Prelude steps away from the supernat…
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もっと読む »Takayuki Hirao’s animated feature is set in the fictional Nyallywood, where a B-movie producer in pigtails and a sailor dress takes on a serious-minded film about ageing, art and lossBoth the glamour and the difficulties of film-making are covered in T…
もっと読む »Contractor said he lost the device – storing names, addresses, dates of birth and tax details of 460,000 people – after an alcohol-fuelled night outA city in Japan has been forced to apologise after a contractor admitted he had lost a USB memory stick …
もっと読む »Ministers from world’s biggest economies reach agreement that could shift estimated $33bn a year to clean energy sourcesThe world’s biggest economies are to stop funding any overseas fossil fuel development from the end of this year, in a move likely t…
もっと読む »A surprising number of us fall for imaginary characters. Some even ‘marry’ them. But is this worse than any other unattainable love?Name: FictosexualsAge: The term is new, but the kink is ancient. Continue reading…
もっと読む »The Japanese phenom has become a global star after one of the greatest games ever pitched, and he has survived tragedy along the wayThere are no-hitters. There are perfect games. And there’s the sort of virtuosity that Rōki Sasaki managed to conjure fo…
もっと読む »Robust, old-fashioned anti-war epic tells the true story of the soldier posted to the Philippines in the second world war, who refused to surrender until 1974Here is a really well-made, old-fashioned anti-war epic in a forthright and robustly enjoyable…
もっと読む »A trip to Japan stirs up uncomfortable memories in this novel brimming with beautiful imageryCold Enough for Snow is constructed as a mystery, but the puzzle is its two central characters: a mother and a daughter, who arrive separately from an unnamed …
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もっと読む »Royal Academy, LondonLike Hogarth on sake, the artist’s quirky works wittily satirise the human carnival of foreigners Japan opened itself to in the mid-19th centuryIt’s no secret that the first European modernists were obsessed with Japan. In Manet’s …
もっと読む »This masterful coming-of-age tale sees the process of coming to terms with past traumas through a horror-fantasy lensIn a world where malicious thoughts and dark memories can morph into fearsome monsters that wreak havoc on society, the future of the h…
もっと読む »インポスター❄️@impostor4545ソニーは平井元CEOを始め、陽キャを採用し始め業績がこの10年で最高益にまで伸び今では日本のGAFAとまで言われるほど成長しましたね。家電を捨て金融(笑)映画(笑)プレステ(笑)と嘲笑っていたおじさんを捨て、ソフト分野にオールベッ… https://…
もっと読む »Taskforce will ‘listen to local people’s concerns’, as government plans to release more than 1m tonnesA UN nuclear taskforce has promised to prioritise safety as it launches a review of controversial plans by Japan to release more than 1m tonnes of con…
もっと読む »(Mais Um)The Ainu maestro curates a collection that gives his people’s endangered ancient sound a modern lease of life – with dub, harmony and dazzling percussion and harmonyOki, the performing name of Oki Kano, plays folk of the most urgent kind – mus…
もっと読む »Ryusuke Hamaguchi brings a gentle warmth to this ingenious collection of three stories united by themes of fate and mysteryRyusuke Hamaguchi is a Japanese film-maker whose work I first encountered in 2018 with his doppelgänger romance Asako I & II …
もっと読む »This weird postmodern drama sees a lonely teenager join a virtual world where she becomes a hugely successful singerThere’s some amazing big-screen spectacle in this weird postmodern emo photo-love drama from Japanese anime director Mamoru Hosoda, whos…
もっと読む »【スペイン人リアクション】中島美嘉 – 雪の華｜Reacción a Flor de nieve de Nakashima Mika
もっと読む »Umaibo, a crunchy corn snack that means ‘delicious stick’, increases in price from ¥10 to ¥12 – the first rise in the face of higher import costsOne of Japan’s best-loved snacks is to go up in price – by a whopping 20% – for the first time since its la…
もっと読む »Concerns about new Omicron offshoot in England; France to bring in strict restrictions for unvaccinated peopleSee all our coronavirus coverageGermany’s seven-day incidence rate has risen to a high of 772.7 infections per 100,000 people, up from 706.3….
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