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The 42-year-old former Olympic swimmer had decided to take part in the 180km race, which saw teams travel from Calvi to Monaco to raise awareness for the prevention of drowning programs for water safety.

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In William Olsson’s “Lost Girls & Love Hotels,” Margaret (Alexandra Daddario), is spiraling out of control. An American expat living in Japan, the young woman spends her days fighting off a hangover, barely competent enough to hold a job, and her nights drunkenly talking in bars followed by late-night sexual encounters with strangers.

When Brad Pitt signed on in August to star in director David Leitch's upcoming action thriller Bullet Train, it gave Yuma Terada and Ryosuke Saegusa, co-founders of startup Japanese rights management firm CTB Inc, a burst of high-profile visibility for their unconventional business model. Produced by Sony, Bullet Train will be a big-budget adaptation of Japanese author Kotaro Isaka's novel Maria Beetle.

Dennis Harvey Film CriticThe COVID epidemic must be rough for sex addicts — something that lends at least a temporary tinge of nostalgia to “Lost Girls & Love Hotels,” whose promiscuous heroine seems unconcerned even about old-school STD risks.

Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film Critic“Prison is the only place that won’t kick you out no matter how badly you behave,” remarks the ex-con protagonist, who gets no second chances in Japanese society. Directed with piercing insight, emotional depth and true compassion by Miwa Nishikawa, “Under the Open Skies” tells a heartbreaking tale of a pariah whose soul is crushed by systemic discrimination and a world of hypocritical conformity.

Princess Charlene of Monaco gets a sweet hug from husband Prince Albert at the start of The Crossing Calvi Monaco Water Bike Challenge event on Saturday (September 12) in Calvi, France.

Set in 1940 in Kobe, Japan, with an epilogue during the bombing of the city in 1945, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s intriguingly titled Wife of a Spy (Spy no Tsuma) bookends the Second World War in an absorbing, exotic, well-paced thriller with moments of disconcerting realism and horror. Its spot in Venice competition is a well-earned promotion for the director after his many accolades for films like Kairo, Tokyo Sonata and Before We Vanish.

All products featured on Glamour are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.After 22 years, Mulan, the classic 1998 Disney animated movie, has finally been remade into an .

When the Japanese Imperial Army laid siege to an innocuous warehouse in 1937’s Battle of Shanghai, the skirmish ultimately became a flashpoint that galvanized a nation. China lost that battle but won the war, and the resistance of the Eight Hundred Heroes earned the legendary status it retains to this day.

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Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film CriticFour days feels like an eternity in “The Eight Hundred,” mainland Chinese writer-director Guan Hu’s monumental, if sometimes unwieldy epic interpretation of the courageous defense of a warehouse by the Chinese Nationalist Army in October 1937. For those with little knowledge of the Sino-Japanese War, the bombardment of facts, action and characters in the 147-minute film can be too much to take in at one go.

James McClain Two years ago, tech entrepreneur Larry Ellison and prominent cancer researcher Dr. David Agus announced the launch of Sensei, the AgTech company they co-founded that encompasses both sustainable farming and retreat elements.

Carly Rae Jepsen celebrated the fifth anniversary of her third album ‘EMOTION’ this week, releasing a deluxe edition of the record with the surprise inclusion of two previously unreleased bonus tracks.‘Never Get To Hold You’ and ‘Love Again’ were originally included on the physical Japanese edition of the album, but hadn’t hit streaming services until now.The two tracks didn’t make the 2016 offcuts collection, ‘EMOTION Side B’, but fans uploaded the songs to YouTube around the release of the