TOKYO (AP) — Ryuichi Ichinokawa’s life could be right out of the movie “Rental Family” as the founder nearly two decades ago ...

Japan has been a source of some of the greatest games, graphic novels, TV series, and, of course, movies ever made. Japanese cinema has produced countless cultural gems that have gone on to influence ...

China has frozen regulatory reviews for new Japanese films, adding to the fallout from a dispute over Taiwan that shows ...

Dazzling visual effects permeate the latest movie featuring acrobatic, lightning-fast battles with demons at a kaleidoscopic ...

Infinity Castle," the latest feature in the hit Japanese animation franchise, has become the top-grossing film in Korea so ...

Film distributors have suspended the screening of at least two Japanese films in China amid a deepening dispute between Tokyo ...

He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era.

This story is one in a series on Pacific Rim issues and culture that appears every Tuesday in The Chronicle World section. Reclusive North Korean Leader Kim Jong Il is doing it. His counterpart, South ...