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The friendship of two young women at the same stage of life is tested by a pregnancy. Hajime Tsuda’s debut film “Daughters” about the dynamics of female bonding is set in the miraculous city of Tokyo and was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for the Asian New Talent Award in the category best film.

“Daughters” is streaming on Sakka Films

Koharu (Ayaka Miyoshi) and Ayano (Yunko Abe) are flatmates. One is event manager and the other works in fashion marketing. As Ayano gets pregnant by a common friend, who left the country, the friends have to decide whether or not to keep the baby. The major decision takes them on a journey of self-revelation.

Coming from an event marketing background, director and writer Hajime Tsuda puts its characters into the shiny world of pop-up stores and nightclubbing. Ayano and Koharu know how to enjoy life, but at...

Los Angeles-based Synepic Entertainment has announced that their anticipated platform for Japanese independent cinema Sakka is launching on May 25th, 2022. Their launch will feature five award-winning independent films that have charmed the crowd at the festival circuit.

As indicated by its name Sakka, a Japanese word for “auteur”, the platform will focus on featuring and supporting the emerging directors from Japan with unique voices. It will have a featured page for the directors of their distribution titles and allow people to send short reviews directly to the filmmaker as part of its effort to bring the community closer. The audience can enjoy special bonus contents that are available with rentals and purchases. The company is also looking to host in-person screenings as the venues start to come back to normalcy.

The platform will not only stream the films that the company is distributing, but it will also allow people to...

Exclusive: Los Angeles-based Synepic Entertainment is launching Sakka, a streaming service specializing in Japanese cinema. The platform will debut in North America and select further territories in early May, the company said. At launch, it will feature five movies: Happy Hour, the 2015 movie from recent Oscar nominee Ryusuke Hamaguchi; Shô Miyake’s 2018 feature And Your Bird Can Sing; Seiji Tanaka’s 2018 film Melancholic; Chihiro Amano’s 2019 pic Mrs Noisy; and Hajime Tsuda’s 2020 drama Daughters. Synepic said it was focusing on independent films and would be acquiring two further titles later in the summer. The company is also looking to host in-person screenings of films it acquires. “We are beyond proud to create this unique platform for Japanese films of new generations,” commented Chiaki Yanagimoto, the president of Synepic Entertainment and the founder of the platform. “There are many Japanese films that unfortunately don’t see their full potential outside...

Queer East Film Festival is delighted to unveil its full programme centred on queer storytelling and activism from East and Southeast Asia. This year’s programme includes a selection of 37 features, short films and artists’ moving image works from 15 countries, ranging from new releases to classic retrospectives, mainstream box office hits to radical independent works, accompanied by pre- screening introductions and filmmaker Q&As. A series of online panel discussions with international guests will run throughout the festival period, covering topics such as women in the film industry, queer film festivals, and the development of Asian LGBTQ+ movements.

Launched in 2020, Queer East is a new film festival that aims to amplify the voices of Asian communities in the UK, who have often been excluded from mainstream discourse, despite Asians being one of the country’s fastest-growing ethnic groups. Queer East seeks to facilitate a better understanding of the richness of queer Asian heritage,...

Fine entertainment, food for thought, five world premieres and at least a touch of Japanese wackiness and warmth – this is what awaits the audience with around 80 current Japanese short and feature-length films of the 21st Nippon Connection Film Festival. After weeks of hoping and worrying, it is now certain that unfortunately the pandemic will not allow in-theater screenings in 2021 either. The largest festival for Japanese cinema worldwide will once again be held exclusively online from June 1 to 6, 2021.

All films are available online for six days throughout Germany and in some cases outside of Germany. Face-to-face talks with the filmmakers are moving into the digital realm to spark a direct exchange. For everyone whose yearning for Japan is stronger than ever, there is also Nippon Culture: the digital supporting program with over 40 interactive workshops, talks, extraordinary performances and concerts. For the first time, the Nippon Click & Collect Kiosk at the usual...

The friendship of two young women at the same stage of life is tested by a pregnancy. Hajime Tsuda’s debut film “Daughters” about the dynamics of female bonding is set in the miraculous city of Tokyo and was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for the Asian New Talent Award in the category best film.

“Daughters” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival

Koharu (Ayaka Miyoshi) and Ayano (Yunko Abe) are flatmates. One is event manager and the other works in fashion marketing. As Ayano gets pregnant by a common friend, who left the country, the friends have to decide whether or not to keep the baby. The major decision takes them on a journey of self-revelation.

Coming from an event marketing background, director and writer Hajime Tsuda puts its characters into the shiny world of pop-up stores and nightclubbing. Ayano and Koharu know how to enjoy life,...

Five Flavours Asian Film Festival invite you for a journey through taste, colors, and sounds of the Asian continent, hoping they can provide food for your thoughts and solace for your spirits.

The Programme of this year’s Festival comprises more than forty titles representing the extreme variety of Asian cinemas – from horror cinema to sweet melodramas, from grasping auteur cinema to relaxing journeys around the continent.

All the films will be presented online between November 25 and December 6.

Preparing this year’s edition forced the organisers to face up to completely new challenges – from the matters of logistics to finding new ways of thinking about their mission, priorities, building bridges between filmmakers and audiences outside the screening rooms. The online edition of the Festival is not a compromise, but a different way to reach the, perhaps even wider, audiences, discover the rich variety of Asian cultures, and explore the contemporary...

The friendship of two young women at the same stage of life is tested by a pregnancy. Hajime Tsuda’s debut film “Daughters” about the dynamics of female bonding is set in the miraculous city of Tokyo and was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for the Asian New Talent Award in the category best film.

“Daughters” is screening on Japannual Film Festival in Vienna

Koharu (Ayaka Miyoshi) and Ayano (Yunko Abe) are flatmates. One is event manager and the other works in fashion marketing. As Ayano gets pregnant by a common friend, who left the country, the friends have to decide whether or not to keep the baby. The major decision takes them on a journey of self-revelation.

Coming from an event marketing background, director and writer Hajime Tsuda puts its characters into the shiny world of pop-up stores and nightclubbing. Ayano and Koharu know how to enjoy life,...

China has struggled to get viewers back into cinemas this week, but the Shanghai Intl. Film Festival (Siff) has found a way to break through: screen all eight of the “Harry Potter” franchise films in a row, with limited seating due to Covid-19 distancing measures, and watch the public duke it out for the privilege to attend.

They must be doing something right in their selection, however: the festival sold 108,000 tickets in the first ten minutes of online sales. That contrasted with only slow box office in commercial cinemas which resumed operating on Monday.

Siff is set to run July 25 to Aug. 2 with an eclectic selection shown in a mix of screenings with a live audience, outdoor viewings and online streaming.

More than 400 films will screen in 29 designated cinemas, including Jordan Peele’s “Us,” a 4K restoration of “Apocalypse Now,” and “1917,” the only studio film new to Chinese audiences among the various offerings.