‘Your Name’ Live-Action Adaptation Taps ‘Minari’ Director Lee Isaac Chung

A theme park dedicated to the iconic Nintendo gaming franchise will open its doors in early 2021.Super Nintendo World will finally welcome its first guests next spring when it opens as part of the Universal Studios Japan complex in Osaka.The attraction is themed entirely on Nintendo games - with heavy inspiration from the flagship Super Mario series.It's been designed to appeal to all generations of gamers - from those who has the original NES to modern fans with the latest Switch consoles and

Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has announced her new memoir, Crying In H Mart. The book is set to arrive on April 20th, 2021 via Knopf Publishing, and will explore how the death of Zauner’s mother forced a reckoning with the musician’s Korean-American identity.At one point in the memoir, Zauner looks back on a time she broke down in the Asian supermarket H Mart, a traumatic experience that inspired the project’s title.

In the early 2000s, author Dan Buettner conducted research into what aspects of our lifestyle and environment can help us live longer. He identified five areas with the highest percentage of centenarians (a person who is 100 years old or older).

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorRefresh for latest…: In its fifth weekend at the international box office, Warner Bros’ Tenet added another $15.8M from 56 markets. The offshore cume has risen to $242M for a worldwide total of $283.2M.

Queen + Adam Lambert are set to release their upcoming concert album Live Around The World on October 2, but the band served up a treat for fans who can’t wait that long.

NieR Replicantremastered will launch next year (2021), marking 11 years since the game’s original release, Square Enix has announced.The news was revealed during a special NieR presentation at the Tokyo Game Show, and is expected to release for PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent“Love Mooning,” a drama by veteran Japanese director Manda Kunitoshi, has been set as the opening film of Tokyo Filmex. The festival announced the line-up for its 21st edition on Thursday.Filmex, which has long specialized in Asian art films and usually starts in late November, will be held Oct.

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.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Lee Isaac Chung will rewrite and direct Paramount, Bad Robot and Toho’s live-action adaptation of Your Name, the reimagined adaptation of the 2016 animated romantic fantasy drama film which was an instant classic in Japan. Chung will work off the draft by Emily V.

Often, the best decisions aren’t made late at night after a long session of drinking in a Japanese bar. Unfortunately for Alexandra Daddario’s character in “Lost Girls & Love Hotels,” most of her nights end up in a Japanese bar after many, many drinks.

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.

Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa nabbed another career honor Sunday, winning the Venice Film Festival's best director award for Wife of a Spy, the first period drama of his prolific filmography. Set in 1940 Kobe, Japan, the film stars Issey Takahashi (Kill Bill, Shin Godzilla) as a debonair silk merchant whose cosmopolitan world view is on a collision course with Japan's advancing militarism and stifling social conformity.

boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the US Open.The Japanese tennis star — who is currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world — has worn a mask honoring Black victims of police brutality and racial injustice at each of her US Open showings at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.At Saturday's finals match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus,

boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the US Open.The Japanese tennis star — who is currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world — has worn a mask honoring Black victims of police brutality and racial injustice at each of her US Open showings.On Thursday, Osaka honored Philando Castile by wearing his name on her sixth mask for her match at the USTA Billie Jean King

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentVariety spoke with Kiyoshi Kurosawa the day after the world premiere of his World War II suspense drama “Wife of a Spy” in competition at the Venice Film Festival. A frequent invitee to Venice, Cannes and other major festivals, Kurosawa did the interview via Zoom from the Tokyo office of his Japanese distributor.

boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the US Open — and her fans aren't the only ones taking notice.The Japanese tennis star — who is currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world — has worn a mask honoring Black victims of police brutality and racial injustice at each of her US Open showings.On Tuesday, Osaka took the court at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center

After boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the U.S. Open.