The "Inception" and "The Last Samurai" star on embodying the highly stylized art for the shortlisted submission for the Best ...

A nearly three-hour film about Kabuki was never supposed to be a box office juggernaut, but “Kokuho” has defied expectations ...

The kabuki drama has become Japan's highest-grossing live-action movie and an Oscar hopeful for the international feature ...

If there’s a motif running through some awards contenders this season, it’s how niche characters or subjects are finding a ...

Of previous Best Actress winners Sakura Ando, who has won the Japanese Oscar five times -- three times as lead for Oscar ...

Japan’s Oscar entry Kokuho, the coming-of-age Kobuki drama that stars Ryo Yoshizawa and Ken Watanabe, will hit U.S. theaters for an award-qualifying run beginning November 14 in Los Angeles and ...

The world of organized crime in Japan is center stage in "Tokyo Vice," a new HBO show in which an American reporter and transplant to the country must learn to navigate the relationship between ...

The second season of MAX’s “Tokyo Vice” continues the often dangerous investigative exploits of Ansel Elgort’s Jake Adelstein, the first non-Japanese reporter on a Tokyo daily paper, and Ken ...

That’s how Ken Watanabe, who plays detective Hiroto Katagiri, described Jake Adelstein’s (Ansel Elgort) actions at the end of “Tokyo Vice’s” Season 2 premiere. The second season picks off right where ...