In November, Shawn Mahler, creative director for Nagoya Players, released his debut novel named Chizawa Bay: As Ugly As I...

"A young Japanese woman was running through Tokyo station screaming “Save me! Save me!” There was a Japanese man chasing...

The Bridge of Dreams is a collection of short stories by Tanizaki’s hand, released by Dutch publisher De Bezige Bij...

Alone during the holiday season? Or do you like to watch a nice ‘feel good’ film or romantic drama series?...

In the past weeks, the film Harmonium (Futchi ni Tatsu) was being broadcasted in Dutch cinema. The film has been...

The new movie あん (AN) from Naomi Kawase made in 2015 was shown at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam...

Last December I went to the special Filmfocus evening from the Filmhuis in The Hague. This is event is held...

As a guestblogger for AVO Blog I thought: “It might be fun to write something completely different from a music...

Last Sunday the 27th of April I got an amazing opportunity. I was allowed to watch the last first of...

Click here for part 1 of this tribute to Hayao Miyazaki. As promised in my blog from yesterday I will...

Hayao Miyazaki | © Thomas Schulz / detengase @ Flickr Last week some big news became...

Last week on the 16th of March 2013 the Samurai Rock band OROCHI, the winner of theJaME x Râmen bandscontest,...