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MAYU MATSUOKA

A fledgling film director (Mayu Matsuoka, center) returns home to make a film about her dysfunctional family in ¡°Masked Hearts.¡±
CULTURE / Film
Oct 26, 2023
¡®Masked Hearts¡¯: Catharsis comes out of familial discord
Yuya Ishii returns to his indie roots with a comedy-drama that comes from a personal and painfully real place.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 16, 2020
¡®Theatre: A Love Story¡¯: No sparks in this tortured romance
Based on a novel by comedian-turned-author Naoki Matayoshi, ¡°Theatre: A Love Story¡± centers on a narcissistic playwright and his long-suffering girlfriend.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 7, 2019
¡®One Night¡¯: A family drama both deep and dark
Kazuya Shiraishi¡¯s latest tells the story of three siblings whose mother kills their abusive father and then abandons them for 15 years, before returning to check on their progress in life
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 27, 2019
¡®Marriage Hunting Beauty¡¯: When dating dilemmas fail to excite
Last year veteran director Akiko Ohku had a breakthrough hit with ¡°Tremble All You Want,¡± a romantic com edy about a 24-year-old office clerk still obsessed with her girlhood crush but yet to have an actual boyfriend. Played with discombobulated verve by Mayu Matsuoka, this loser-at-love won audience...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 18, 2018
The meteoric rise of Mayu Matsuoka
As a film critic, I occasionally come across something on the screen that sets off fireworks in my brain. It happened with Sakura Ando¡¯s explosive performance as a desperate boxer in ¡°100 Yen Love¡± and with the funny, surprising and moving zombie comedy ¡°One Cut of the Dead.¡± And last year it also happened...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 31, 2018
¡®Blank 13¡¯: Dark dysfunctional-family drama offers no easy answers
A father steps back into his family¡¯s lives, after a gap of 13 years, to tell them he is dying of cancer.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 3, 2018
¡®Tremble All You Want¡¯: Mayu Matsuoka gives a star-making turn in delightful romcom
Hopeless crushes are typically the stuff of teen comedies, not romcoms aimed at grownups. Yet in the corner of many an adult brain exists at least one excruciating memory of that special teenaged someone you never quite worked up the nerve to speak to.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 10, 2016
¡®Aiba Learns¡¯; ¡®Good Fortune! Appraisal Team for Anything High Quality Treasure Salon¡¯; Lotte ¡ª So
In addition to singing and dancing, the popular male idols managed by Johnny & Associates do a lot of educational TV, including ¡°Aiba Manabu¡± (¡°Aiba Learns¡°; TV Asahi, Sun., 6 p.m.), in which Masaki Aiba, a member of boy band Arashi, learns about some common process. In the past, Aiba and his guests...
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Inside Toho Archive¡¯s mission to save Japan¡¯s cinematic memory
The goal of restoration is not to artificially upscale but to return the film to the condition it was in ¡°the very first day it appeared in the world,¡± says Nobushige Toshima, president and sales division manager of Toho Archive.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan¡¯s landscape that they often go unnoticed.
Why Japan¡¯s utility poles won¡¯t be disappearing anytime soon
By Alex K.T. Martin

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