An ambitious Tokyo boy and a cautious girl living in a small country town, Taki (Ryunosuke Kamiki) and Mitsuha (Mone Kamishiraishi) are worlds apart from each other. Thanks to their supernatural ...

Director Makoto Shinkai's tells IndieWire how anime and rock music propelled his Oscar-contending romantic fantasy. With its surprising Los Angeles Film Critics Association win for best animated ...

The smash hit anime helped pick up the slack of Hollywood's share, which dropped after recent years of gains. By Gavin J Blair The Japanese box office grew 8.5 percent to a record $2.09 billion ...

The Japanese animated film Your Name. has been the biggest hit of the year in that country, and is currently their fifth highest-grossing film of all time. It’s on the shortlist for the Academy Award ...

Joey Nolfi is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. Since 2016, his work at EW includes RuPaul's Drag Race video interviews, Oscars predictions, and more. The film follows a young girl, Mitsuha, ...

The director of the hit 2016 film Your Name, Makoto Shinkai, officially has plans to announce his next big film to fans as soon as possible. Makoto Shinkai has become a huge name in anime over the ...

Partnering with UNIQLO USA, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston presents “The Boston Festival of Films from Japan” throughout February. The program screens Japanese films from different genres, including ...

Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge” opened brightly in China with over $16 million in four days at the Chinese box office. The film opened on Thursday in second place behind ongoing sensation, Japanese ...

“Your Name” director Makoto Shinkai says he always gets nervous standing in front of a crowd that’s just seen one of his films, but at Monday’s screening of his latest film for The Wrap Screening ...

The upcoming Your Name live-action remake has found a new director – Carlos López Estrada. According to Variety, the filmmaker has been tapped for the upcoming live-action adaptation of the popular ...