Asian Movie Pulse

“Love from the Tip of the Tongue” is a boys’ love manga written and illustrated by An Momose. Originally titled “Shitasaki k...

Long before the West started its modern film franchises and cinematic universes, Japanese studios had been doing the same quite frequently, successfully and consistently. While it was a particularly favoured approach for certain yakuza stories and tales of wandering ronins, it wasn’t limited to just those kind of stories, as buddy comedies, stories of the common salaryman and...

Hidaka Yamada touches on the topic of illegal part-time jobs among young people in his new short released in 2025 – “shady”. After graduating from Waseda University in Tokyo, Yamada has worked primarily as a director of commercials and promotional videos, while simultaneously developing his career within the independent film industry. His latest short film screened at the Sho...

The organizers of the Nippon Connection Film Festival have announced that the festival will return to Frankfurt am Main from June 8 to 13, 2027. Following a record-breaking 26th edition that attracted around 21,000 visitors, the event will once again present more than 100 Japanese films alongside concerts, workshops, lectures, exhibitions, an...

Written and illustrated by the manga duo Somato, “Kuro: The Comp...