The directors, two generations of Japanese filmmaking excellence, delivered a wide-ranging, humorous discussion on their ...

Lee called Yamada a "national treasure" (the English translation of "Kokuho") while Yamada said that putting his modestly ...

The latest feature from 94-year-old director Yōji Yamada ('The Hidden Blade') follows a cabbie and elderly passenger on one long, nostalgic ride through Japan’s capital.

The veteran filmmaker issued the call during a conversation with 'Kokuho' director Lee Sang-il at Tokyo International Film ...

Yamada Yoji to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Tokyo Film Festival's 38th edition where latest film 'Tokyo Taxi' ...

Recently-released titles by – very different – Japanese film icons Yamada Yoji and Shimizu Takashi adorn the TIFFCOM sales slate of Shochiku, one of Japan’s oldest and most powerful film studios. The ...

Sometimes, the best ending a movie can have is pretty much no ending at all, as seen with the likes of A House of Dynamite ...

Sayuri Yoshinaga brings quiet strength to the biopic about the first woman to summit Mount Everest — even when the film ...

For 40 years, Tetsu Fujimura has quietly steered a shift in global entertainment, from importing Hollywood titles to ...

Yamada's latest work Tokyo Taxi, based on the French film Driving Madeleine, has been selected as the TIFF Centerpiece film.

As previously announced, Japanese actress Sayuri Yoshinaga – who has appeared in several of Yamada’s films – will also ...