The news is bleak, the nights are long. Yet somehow... the calendar is still stacked. January is when culture gets weird in ...

From Mirai to Spirited Away, here's a complete ranking of every anime film that has managed to impress the Academy so far.

Hayao Miyazaki discusses the symbolism behind Spirited Away's enigmatic character No-Face, 25 years after the film's release.

At this year’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival, there were some big events – including, but not limited to, screenings of a pair of French animated movies that had just premiered at ...

Director Kent Seki spoke to IndieWire about making his directorial debut with the short "Chrome Alone 2 — Lost in New Jersey." When the teaser for “Chrome Alone 2: Lost in New Jersey,” a new short ...

When the teaser for “Chrome Alone 2: Lost in New Jersey,” a new short film starring the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was released, an early complaint on the internet was a brief moment where ...

On the morning of Dec. 8, 1941, Sergeant David Akui walked along Waimanalo Beach and spotted what he thought was a sea turtle emerging from the surf. Akui quickly realized he had found something far ...

Beijing is curbing Japanese movies, music and art as it seeks to punish Tokyo for its support of Taiwan. By Javier C. Hernández and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo A singer was forced offstage in the ...

"The medium is so popular now," says Leigh, who remembers when anime existed mostly on home video and hardly ever played in theaters. "My friends out of state have seen the ‘Chainsaw’ movie. It was a ...

An unusual household appliance has been launched on the market in Japan: a washing machine for people. The 7.5-feet-long capsule (that’s 2.30 meters) was unveiled at the World Expo [PDF], which took ...

If the mood at the Tokyo Stock Exchange this week is anything to go by, reports of streetwear’s death have been greatly exaggerated. On Thursday morning, Nigo and Pharrell Williams took to the trading ...

Human Made Inc., the Japanese fashion label that counts China as central to its plans, is broadening its growth strategy to reduce reliance on any single market against the backdrop of rising tensions ...