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Six days of unforgettable cinema experiences are over. In its 25th anniversary edition, the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection once again set an audience record with around 20,000 visitors over six days and confirmed its position as the film festival with the largest audience in Hesse. Most of the film and cultural events at the
Japan Visits The Main: Frankfurt Becomes A Hotspot Of Japanese Cinema & Culture. The complete program of the 25th Nippon Connection Film Festival May 27 – June 1, 2025, Frankfurt am Main On Tuesday, May 27, 2025, the Nippon Connection Film Festival in Frankfurt am Main will open its doors for the 25th time! For
From the brilliant and twisted mind of manga artist Shintaro Kago, a new collection of short stories rife with skin-crawling suspense, visceral body horror, and pitch-dark humor. In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago made his English debut with Dementia 21, a collection of absurdist manga short stories. Readers found themselves delighted and disgusted by his
Celebrate renowned Hong Kong action classics, storytellers, and film icons with Shout! Studios’ new home entertainment series HONG KONG CINEMA CLASSICS™ Cult favourite HK movies, Hard Boiled (1992), City on Fire (1987), A Better Tomorrow (1986), The Killer (1989), Bullet in the Head (1999). Fist of Legend (1994), Peking Opera Blues (1986), and much more!
Gakuryu Ishii, director of such cult classics as Electric Dragon 80000v and The Crazy Family takes on the 1973 novel “The Box Man” by Kōbō Abe (Woman in the Dunes), an adaptation 40 years in the making! Starring Masatoshi Nagase (Mystery Train) and Golden Globe winning actor Tadanobu Asano (Shogun) A man with a cardboard
Don’t miss the Japanese horror anthology that celebrates legendary writer Edogawa Rampo (Blind Beast, Horror of Malformed Men), Rampo Noir (2005). This month, don’t miss Rampo Noir streaming on ARROW – a stylistic tour-de-force that vividly evokes the “erotic grotesque” worlds created by Japan’s pioneering proponent of horror and mystery fiction. Four filmmakers from completely
Opening 6 April 2022 and running until 15 May at MERRY ART GALLERY in Yokohama is “Showa Bizarre MANGA Syndrome,” an exhibition organized by manga artist Miyako Cojima. As is well known, Japan is home to some of the world’s most outlandish and shocking horror imagery, much of which dates back centuries. More recently, when
With E3’s first full online event coming to a close, we thought we would do a quick rundown of the treasure trove of horror games under development and set for release across the upcoming 2021/2022 period. There were a plethora of horror themed videogames being advertised, from Triple A studios to small indie dev teams