2PM’s Ok Taec Yeon will star alongside Alice in Borderland’s Hayato Isomura in Netflix’s new LGBT Japanese drama Soul Mate. The 8-episode series will land on Netflix on May 14, 2026. Here’s everything ...

The streamer also announced the Erika Toda-starring drama 'Straight to Hell' and anime series 'JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run,' part of a growing investment push in Japanese originals. By ...

The Busan Story Market unveiled 31 projects for this year’s edition, with IPs spanning South Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Running as part of the Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM) from September 20 to 23 ...

Exclusive: Film Movement opens Hiroshi Okuyama's 2024 Cannes Un Certain Regard nominee on September 19. The moving coming-of-age drama “My Sunshine,” set in rural Japan, centers on the bond between a ...

My partner recently confessed something to me about his screen-time habits: When he’s giggling at his phone, he’s often watching short English-language soap operas that have begun showing up on his ...

Whether or not you know the name “vertical drama,” you’ve likely encountered one during your morning doom scroll on your phone. These addictive little videos are vertical, meaning they’re shot in an ...

Warner Bros. Discovery and Japanese streaming giant U-Next are taking their partnership global, unveiling plans to distribute a curated slate of premium Japanese drama series on Max across ...

Netflix‘s “Glass Heart,” a Japanese musical drama starring Takeru Satoh, is set to premiere globally on July 31. The series stars Satoh (“First Love”) as Naoki Fujitani, the enigmatic frontman of ...

The announcement that a film called “Renoir” would be screening at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was not necessarily cause for rejoicing among those who don’t look beyond the titles of the selected ...

Written and directed by the Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Shoplifters”), this Netflix series is so good it makes other shows look bad. By Margaret Lyons “Asura,” a seven-episode Japanese ...