Netflix To Add 21 Animated Films From Japan’s Legendary Studio Ghibli

King Gnu's Daiki Tsuneta displayed his classical roots this week, traveling to New York to play cello at the Masonic Hall NYC. The guitarist and leader of Japan's breakout mixture band contributed his musicianship to the N.HOOLYWOOD COMPILE 2020 fall collection fashion show on Tuesday (Feb. 4).

J-pop girl group STU48's fourth single, "Mubou na yume wa samerukoto ga nai" -- which loosely translates to "reckless dreams never end" -- sold 332,691 copies in its first week to debut at No. 1 on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Jan.

Good Morning Britain viewers had a giggle today when a cheeky guest had a pop at Piers Morgan during his day off.

It's the first batch of 21 of the iconic studio's movies that are coming to the streamer this year.

J-pop rapper and singer SKY-HI shared the lyric video for his latest single, "Don't Worry Baby Be Happy," featuring Thai hitmaker Stamp.The video uses live footage from SKY-HI's Round A Ground 2019 concert from December, where the two stars premiered the song before a packed crowd."Don't Worry Baby Be Happy" is a stylish mid-tempo number contrasting SKY-HI's emphatic rapping skills with Stamp's mellow yet robust voice.

Two new Johnny's boy bands' debut singles dominated the top two positions on the latest Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated Jan. 20 to 26, with SixTONES' "Imitation Rain" coming out on top at No.

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The iconic Japanese manga “One Piece” is being adapted by Netflix into a live-action series.

The Japanese box office leaped by 17% in 2019 to set a record $2.4 billion score, according to figures announced Tuesday by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, locally known as Eirin. The previous high was the $2.2 billion recorded in 2016.

The Japanese box office jumped more than 17 percent to a record $2.39 billion (261 billion yen) in 2019, with admissions up more than 15 percent to 194,910, the highest attendance since 1971.Despite a slowly shrinking population and the rise of streaming platforms, astrong lineup of films, rising wages for the young, low unemployment and a rise in leisure timedue to government work reforms all helped drive the record box office numbers.Hollywood's share rose slightly to 45.6 percent, its

By Amanda N'Duka

Netflix is listening and the Studio Ghibli films arriving on the platform is a mere proof of it. For the longest time, fans of the animated Japanese movies have been begging the online streaming platform to arrange for the entire catalog. It seems like Netflix made some calls and finally, movies like My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away are going to arrive on the platform outside the regions of the US, Canada. Yes, these movies will arrive in India as well. 

Netflix has acquired exclusive streaming rights to the full film catalog from beloved Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli for everywhere in the world outside North America and Japan.The landmark deal, unveiled Monday through French distribution partner Wild Bunch International, represents the first time that all 21 Ghibli films — including Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, among others — will be made available via streaming on a worldwide

Studio's output will be available to stream from next month.