NEW YORK — In “The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On,” a 1987 documentary that takes many abrupt twists and turns, one of the most surprising comes about a half-hour in. The Japanese director Kazuo Hara ...

Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries may have lost to No Other Land at the Oscars, but both the filmmaker and her film have long been making waves in Japan. Black Box Diaries, nominated for best documentary ...

A reivew of the documentary covering baseball in Japan and the 2025 Tokyo Series hits streaming on March 27.

Date: Wednesday, April 30 th Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Location: Washington Hall 308 Four short documentaries will be shown as part of the event. 7:00 ~ NO農家 「NO農家」is about Kazuyoshi Sugimoto’s efforts ...

TOKYO – “Black Box Diaries,” a documentary in which Japanese journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault case and the barriers she faced in pursuing justice, has been screened widely ...

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Japan is mounting its strongest presence at the Berlin Film Festival in years, with seven films across sections.

A new documentary is looking to shine a light on Japanese-Americans who were placed in internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II. Despite a ban on cameras inside the camps, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story begins in 2015 when she meets the Washington DC bureau chief of the Tokyo Broadcasting System, Noriyuki Yamaguchi, to ...

Director Shiori Itō speaks after the Japan premiere of "Black Box Diaries" at a cinema in Tokyo, Friday, Dec. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte) TOKYO (AP) — “Black Box Diaries,” a documentary in ...