Blake Simons

His biggest popular success and one of his darkest comedies are arriving in the Criterion Collection at the s…

An anthropologist of colliding emotions explores her distinct and defiant cinema

Kohei Kadowaki discusses blending rotoscoping with traditional animation, crafting emotional realism, and the…

During the Cannes Film Festival, director Yukiko Sode and actors Yukino Kishii and Tadanobu Asano reflected o…

The team behind the year's most controversial queer film explores its nuance as they look back on their exper…

The Shōgun star discusses MIRRORLIAR, the Japanese film industry's short film secret weapon

The director discusses hybrid animation, Tim Burton influences, and the evolving creative philosophy behind S…

The Kalanchoe filmmaker turns his empathic lens on himself with his new feature. Our interview takes a simila…

Tao Okamoto made history at Cannes, while Japanese filmmakers and producers looked ahead, embracing collabora…

From 'Charlie Bit My Finger' to 'The Nick Clegg Apology Song', Chronically Online brings some of the internet…

Director Tommy Ng Kai Chung and producer Polly Yeung on how they made the afterlife come alive in their new f…

Ahead of Renoir’s U.S. theatrical release this week from Film Movement, I had the pleasure of sitting down wi…

As the Utawarerumono series comes to an end, we look back on the series with writer Suga Munemitsu.

Nothing but life happens in Yukiko Sode's elusive adaptation of Mieko Kawakami's bestseller.

The American director's third narrative feature explores the relationship between the spectator and the spect…

The Ghibli veteran shares stories from the making of the beloved anime features, from sunrise shoots to the f…

Koji Fukada explores queerness across two generations in an understated artistic drama.

'Sheep in the Box' expands Kore-eda Hirokazu's empathy to humanoid androids and the architecture they inhabit.

A memorable slice of countryside surrealism, Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl and Party 7 director Katsuhito…

The Kokuho director's rise has been as dramatic as that of his characters. Now, I ask him: what's next?

Documentarian Yihwen Chen's film about charismatic punk band Shh... Diam! has the feel of a hang-out movie, b…

A Pixar alum's 2D debut, an opera adaptation, a Blender simulation comedy, and a queer virus satire. The anim…

Nobody expected 'Kokuho' to become the country's highest-grossing domestic live-action movie of all time - no…

Somewhere in a tower block, a Korean woman (Shim Eun-kyung) sits at a table in front of a blank piece of pape…