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2025.2.22
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2025.2.14
Tribute Screenings of David Lynch’s Iconic Films, ‘Eraserhead,’ ‘Lost Highway’ and More
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2025.4.4
A24’s ‘TUESDAY’ Premieres in Japan This April
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‘Blue Period’ Available on Prime Video
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‘The Making of a Japanese’ Short Nominated for Academy Award, Drawing Widespread Attention
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2025.3.1
Kaori Oda’s ‘Underground’ Trailer Released, Set for Berlinale Debut
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ONE OK ROCK’s New Track “Puppets Can’t Control You” Chosen as Theme for “Mikami Sensei”
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Takeshi Kitano’s ‘Broken Rage’ Release Date Announced with New Trailer Starring Tadanobu Asano
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2025.1.17
Kenshi Yonezu Reveals Original Cover Jacket for Gundam’s Latest Theme Song “Plazma”
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‘Zootopia 2’ Japan Release Announced, Exclusive Visual Introduces New Snake Character
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2025.4.25
‘A Minecraft Movie’ Gets Japanese Official Release Date
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2025.1.17
Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Announces Kenshi Yonezu as Theme Song Artist, Trailer Unveiled
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2025.2.7
Showtime Seven: Perfume to Perform Theme Song and Make a Cameo as Themselves
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2025.3.28
Tadanobu Asano Stars in ‘Ravens,’ a Film About the Life of Photographer Masahisa Fukase – Full Trailer Unveiled
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2025.3.28
Bong Joon-ho’s New Film Mickey 17 Set for Japanese Release on March 28
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2025.6.13
Academy Awards Shortlisted Thai Film ‘How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’ Set for June Release
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Mamoru Hosoda’s New Film ‘Scarlet’ Set for Winter 2025 Release
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2025.5.9
‘Paddington in Peru’ Set for Japan Release: A Dashing Bear’s Peruvian Adventure
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Ghost and the Shell: A Bold Tokyo Exhibition That Dares to Dig Deeper
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Taking Taiwan Indie Global: Emerge Music’s Nuno on Asia’s Music Alliance
Atsutake Kaneko
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Calling Out From Somewhere in the Fog: Shintaro Sakamoto’s “Yoo-hoo”
Ryohei Matsunaga
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Takuro Okada on the Making of konoma: Between Minimalism, Jazz, and Cross-Cultural Dialogue
Yuji Shibasaki
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The Japanese Band That Counts Fans, Not Streams: LOSTAGE Explained
Shoichi Yamamoto
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Laura day romance on “Nemuru”: A Two-Part Journey Through “Walls” and “Bridges”
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2026.5.9
ambient room Returns to Daikanyama with Takuro Okada Sextet and BudaMunk
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2026.5.6
Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT Pop-Up Opens in Omotesando
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2026.5.6
kanekoayano Announces 2026 World Tour Across Australia, Europe and Japan
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2026.5.5
Shintaro Sakamoto Announces Nationwide Yoo-hoo Tour for 2026
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2026.4.18
OGRE YOU ASSHOLE Bring “DELAY 2026” Back With kanekoayano and deca joins
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2026.4.18
ULTRAMAN EXHIBITION Brings Six Decades of Heroes to Osaka, Fukuoka, and Yokohama in 2026
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2026.4.17
Japanese Comedian Naomi Watanabe Sets 18 Date “FROM TOKYO” Tour Across North America
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2026.3.17
Ringo Sheena Returns to the Stage Nationwide Spring 2026
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2026.2.11
Tate Britain Brings 1990s UK Art Retrospective to Tokyo
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2026.2.7
Claude Monet Exhibition ‘A Question to Landscapes’ to Open in Japan in 2026,
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