Movies
Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds and Liam Neeson star in Martin Scorsese’s “Silence.”
Nov. 23, 2016
Tadanobu Asano plays Genghis Khan, but he’s also trying to shake up Japan’s star system.
June 13, 2008
Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s “Last Life in the Universe” is a stylish, slightly surreal mood piece in which two marginalized people cross paths for an unexpectedly happy interlude.
Aug. 20, 2004
Tick, tick, tick, goes the metronome in the first scene of Kôji Fukada’s “Harmonium,” as appropriate a sound effect as has ever started a tightly wound domestic drama.
July 6, 2017
Entertainment & Arts
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s sublime “Maborosi” opens with a 12-year-old girl trying to persuade her elderly grandmother to come home with her, but the woman is determined to return to her native village, even though she may be entirely without funds.
Sept. 19, 1996
Starring Keanu Reeves, the long-delayed film by Carl Rinsch offers little of substance to add to the samurai genre.
Dec. 24, 2013
Review: ’47 Ronin’ doesn’t quite cut it as a samurai fantasy
‘Taboo’ is the complex tale of an attractive, competent recruit amid a macho militia in Kyoto.
Nov. 17, 2000
Television
FX and Hulu’s limited series “Shōgun,” based on James Clavell’s novel about feudal Japan, is full of physical and personal conflicts reminiscent of “Game of Thrones.”
Feb. 26, 2024
World & Nation
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- A Kazakh-financed film has been nominated for best foreign film at this year’s Oscars, a welcome creative boost to this central Asian country that was so heavily lampooned by the hit “Borat” movie.
Jan. 25, 2008