Movies
Tokyo Winners: John Sayles’ “City of Hope,” which deals with race relations, class and politics in a fictional New Jersey city, has won the Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Oct. 8, 1991
Entertainment & Arts
The Little Tokyo Cinemas in Yaohan Plaza in downtown Los Angeles will close its doors for the last time tonight, leaving the nation without a Japanese-language movie house.
Oct. 31, 1990
Asia: Many in the country are unaware of the facts surrounding the 1941 attack. Though the movie is billed as a love story, it could spur some to delve deeper.
June 22, 2001
With Robert Redford in Tokyo promoting “humanistic cinema,” Japanese audiences are packing theaters to see “Legal Eagles,” his most recent film.
April 13, 1987
The executive committee of the Tokyo International Film Festival has rejected the movie “Mishima” for showing at the first-ever Tokyo festival, describing it as a work unworthy “in quality of art.”
May 15, 1985
Slashing Suspects: Five gangsters were arrested Thursday in Tokyo for a slashing attack last May on film director Juzo Itami, who had made a movie critical of organized crime.
Dec. 4, 1992
The box-office success of “Aladdin” in New York has had Broadway watchers wondering where the Disney musical will pop up next on the international map.
Sept. 29, 2014
You could stream “Tokyo Story” on your laptop and it would still cast a spell, but that’s no reason to pass up the chance to see Yasujirô Ozu’s 1953 masterpiece on the big screen.
Aug. 24, 2017
Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor” finally opened in Tokyo on Saturday, complete with controversial newsreel scenes of Japanese atrocities in China in 1937.
Jan. 25, 1988
Scenes in Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor” depicting the Rape of Nanking, Japan’s four-day massacre in that Chinese city before World War II, will be cut from the film when it opens in Tokyo on Saturday.
Jan. 20, 1988