‘Most Beautiful Boy in the World’ Filmmakers on Importance of Björn Andrésen Returning to Japan (Video)

EXCLUSIVE: NBC’s sci-fi drama Debris, starring Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele, from Almost Human creator J.H. Wyman, has landed its first international sales.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJapan has appointed prominent female politician Hashimoto Seiko to head the country’s Olympic Games organizing committee. She takes the place of Mori Yoshiro, who resigned last week after a rare outcry against his earlier sexist comments.Hashimoto resigned her cabinet position as both minister for the Olympics and minister for female empowerment and gender equality.

Ghetts has spoken about collaborating with Ed Sheeran, who went out of his way to find a studio while he was in Japan.The two artists have teamed up before, working on Sheeran’s track ‘Drown Me Out’, which appeared on his album ‘No.5 Collaborations Project’.Now, the chart-topping singer-songwriter has returned the favour and worked with Ghetts on a song for his new record ‘Conflict Of Interest’, which arrives tomorrow (February 19).

In an exclusive conversation with Genius News, Takashi Murakami reflects on more than a decade’s worth of music collaborations spanning his album art for Kanye West’s Graduation to recent visuals with KIDS SEE GHOSTS, Billie Eilish, and J Balvin. The Japanese visual artist also reveals he started “rough sketches” for a horror-style anime based on a concept by Juice WRLD.

Remakes of Japanese movies, particularly horror movies, are nothing new in Hollywood, but it’s rare to see the opposite happen. This is why we are intrigued to see Vincenzo Natali back the upcoming Japanese remake of his cult sci-fi/horror film “Cube” by executive producing it.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK, via its business arm NHK Enterprises, has acquired local rights to Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles. The 8x52’series will air in Japan on AXN Mystery beginning Sunday, Feb.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Boonie Bears: The Wild Life,” the latest feature-length instalment in a long-running Chinese film and TV franchise, is set to open in Japan and Australia.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNew Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW) will air on the Roku Channel in the U.S., U.K., and Canada under a new television deal, Variety has learned.The professional wrestling promotion will air a one-hour weekly series on the Roku Channel beginning Feb. 11 and will air every Thursday thereafter beginning at 5 p.m.

YouTube have uploaded a playlist of videos taken at a preview event, showing viewers what to expect from the rides, experiences, and shops at the Japanese park.Amongst the videos are tours of various rides including Yoshi’s Adventure, Bowser Jr. Shadow Showdown, and Mario Kart: Koopa’s Challenge, as well as walkthroughs of the shops and cafés.The main attraction, Mario Kart: Koopa’s Challenge, features visitors queuing through Bowser’s Castle, where paintings of Bowser line the walls.

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic means international film buyers won't be able to travel to Berlin this year for the European Film Market —the 2021 EFM will be a virtual affair—but select distributors will get a chance to watch Berlin titles at their local cinema.

With international buyers unable to travel to Germany to scout movies at year’s Berlin International Film Festival, the event will instead bring a selection of titles from its program to them through new initiative ‘EFM goes global’.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentShochiku, a major Japanese film producer and distributor, has announced its remake of “Cube,” a 1997 fantasy-thriller by Vincenzo Natali about six people who find themselves trapped in a maze-like cube and have to figure a way out, while evading fatal traps.A Canadian production that premiered at Toronto, the original film became a cult hit in Japan following its September 1998 local release.The remake stars Suda Masaki, Okada Masaki, Tashiro Hikaru, Saito

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorRadiation exposure was at the forefront of cinematographer Simon Niblett’s mind as he spent time filming Otto Bell’s “The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima.” Bell, who was trying for a baby at the time, was also concerned – they carried radiation monitors.Bell’s documentary Oscar contender, “The Toxic Pigs of Fukushima,” follows a group of local hunters who have been enlisted to dispose of radiated wild boars that now roam the abandoned streets and buildings of Fukushima,

Filmmakers have put out a search for budding support artists this February in Aberdeen.And Casting agency Mad Dog 2020 claim no experience in TV or Film is necessary for you to secure the role as an extra.Instead directors are looking specifically for people of East Asian Heritage to film in Aberdeen this February 18 and 19.They also require all applicants to be based in or close to Aberdeen.Casting directors have already put out request to Aberdeen University Japanese Society amongst

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentTheatrical box office takings in Japan fell by 45% in 2020, compared with the previous year, as coronavirus took its toll on cinemagoing. But that makes Japan one of the most resilient major box office territories.Data published Wednesday by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren) show that total box office was $1.37 billion (JPY143 billion) 45% down on 2019’s $2.5 billion (JPY261 billion).