Clockwise from left: Mica Levi (Dimitrios Vellis/Wikimedia Commons), David Byrne (Shutterstock), Jonny Greenwood (Shutterstock), Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Shutterstock)Graphic: The A.V. Club
If you plan to see Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers this weekend, be prepared to be knocked on your ass by its propulsive score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
If you plan to see Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers this weekend, be prepared to be knocked on your ass by its propulsive score by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.
- 4/26/2024
- by Cindy White
- avclub.com
The manga industry is indeed one of the biggest up-and-coming faucets garnering massive fan attention, but even that has faced a decline in recent years. This is true considering all the legendary Mangakas (aka manga creators) who have left this world in the last few years, leaving only their masterpieces behind to continue their legacy.
Managaka Akira Toriyama | Source: egames.news
One of these masterminds was none other than the super-brains behind the epic Dragon Ball universe who was the most recent to leave fans devastated with his death, Akira Toriyama. However, he wasn’t the only one, and there have been multiple other manga creators who broke many hearts with their deaths preceding Toriyama sensei in recent years.
Besides Akira Toriyama, the World Lost these Legendary Mangakas in Recent Years
Though many may be unaware, Akira Toriyama sensei wasn’t the only manga artist whose sudden unexpected demise broke...
Managaka Akira Toriyama | Source: egames.news
One of these masterminds was none other than the super-brains behind the epic Dragon Ball universe who was the most recent to leave fans devastated with his death, Akira Toriyama. However, he wasn’t the only one, and there have been multiple other manga creators who broke many hearts with their deaths preceding Toriyama sensei in recent years.
Besides Akira Toriyama, the World Lost these Legendary Mangakas in Recent Years
Though many may be unaware, Akira Toriyama sensei wasn’t the only manga artist whose sudden unexpected demise broke...
- 3/30/2024
- by Mahin Sultan
- FandomWire
In his last weeks of life, the Oscar-winning composer is filmed at the piano by his son. It is an almost wordless paean to a remarkable career
Short of presenting nothing more than music and a blank screen, this documentary about the late Japanese composer-performer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s last appearances is as stark and minimal as a concert film can get. And yet it’s a work suffused with emotional tones and shades, surprisingly not all of them sad even though the subject knew at the time of filming he had mere weeks left before he’d die of cancer.
There are moments when director Neo Sora, Sakamoto’s son, turns up the lighting for the more upbeat songs and we can see the master smile, pleased with his own performance, or the composition, or … we know not what, as there is almost no dialogue, no nattering about the life.
Short of presenting nothing more than music and a blank screen, this documentary about the late Japanese composer-performer Ryuichi Sakamoto’s last appearances is as stark and minimal as a concert film can get. And yet it’s a work suffused with emotional tones and shades, surprisingly not all of them sad even though the subject knew at the time of filming he had mere weeks left before he’d die of cancer.
There are moments when director Neo Sora, Sakamoto’s son, turns up the lighting for the more upbeat songs and we can see the master smile, pleased with his own performance, or the composition, or … we know not what, as there is almost no dialogue, no nattering about the life.
- 3/28/2024
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
Since the beginning of his career, Hirokazu Koreeda became recognized for his films representing the family cinema genre—intrinsically linked with the favorite of Western critics among Japanese filmmakers: Yasujiro Ozu. This was already the case with Koreeda's 1995 debut film, “Maboroshi no hikari”, a visual meditation on loss and the passing of time, told through the eyes of a single mother who has just lost her beloved husband. Since the early 1960s and the death of Yasujiro Ozu, Western critics seemed to be engaged in an excruciating quest to find a new ancestor to Ozu's poetics of cinema—and finally, there was one; Koreeda became the new Ozu.
The similarity is there—a contemplative approach towards the mundane which translates to something more transcendental; a patient gaze onto the bonds of the family set against the backdrop of a modernizing world and changing traditions; or a talent to put...
The similarity is there—a contemplative approach towards the mundane which translates to something more transcendental; a patient gaze onto the bonds of the family set against the backdrop of a modernizing world and changing traditions; or a talent to put...
- 3/27/2024
- by Lukasz Mankowski
- AsianMoviePulse
Rihanna‘s “Take a Bow” is one of her most underrated songs, which is pretty shocking considering how popular it was back in the 2000s. The track was co-written by an R&b star and it originally had an Asian flavor. The tune shares its title and some of its other attributes with a Madonna song from the 1990s.
Rihanna’s ‘Take a Bow’ was originally inspired by an Asian musician
Stargate is a production duo that gave us hits by Beyoncé, Ne-Yo, Fifth Harmony, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. Oh boy, have they written numerous hits for the “Rude Boy” singer. During a 2010 interview with Sound on Sound, Stargate’s Mikkel S. Eriksen discussed the origin of one of Rihanna’s most popular ballads. “We might change the beat, or the chords, or completely rearrange the song,” he said.
“Like in the song ‘Take a Bow,’ our original track had an almost Asian feel,...
Rihanna’s ‘Take a Bow’ was originally inspired by an Asian musician
Stargate is a production duo that gave us hits by Beyoncé, Ne-Yo, Fifth Harmony, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. Oh boy, have they written numerous hits for the “Rude Boy” singer. During a 2010 interview with Sound on Sound, Stargate’s Mikkel S. Eriksen discussed the origin of one of Rihanna’s most popular ballads. “We might change the beat, or the chords, or completely rearrange the song,” he said.
“Like in the song ‘Take a Bow,’ our original track had an almost Asian feel,...
- 3/21/2024
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The best figure skaters in the world descend upon Montreal, Canada this week for the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships.
This year’s event officially runs from March 18-24, though the actual competition kicks off on Wednesday, March 20.
Want to watch this year’s World Figure Skating Championships? Here’s what you need to know.
World Figure Skating Championships 2024 Dates, Time, Location
As mentioned above, the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships will take place in Montreal at the famed Bell Centre, home to the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens. The competition will run over three days, from March 20 to 23, with the exhibition gala on Sunday, March 24.
How to Watch 2024 World Figure Skating Championships on TV
This year’s event is airing across NBC and USA Network. If you want to watch the World Figure Skating Championships on TV, you’ll need a cable package that includes NBC and USA. Don’t have cable?...
This year’s event officially runs from March 18-24, though the actual competition kicks off on Wednesday, March 20.
Want to watch this year’s World Figure Skating Championships? Here’s what you need to know.
World Figure Skating Championships 2024 Dates, Time, Location
As mentioned above, the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships will take place in Montreal at the famed Bell Centre, home to the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens. The competition will run over three days, from March 20 to 23, with the exhibition gala on Sunday, March 24.
How to Watch 2024 World Figure Skating Championships on TV
This year’s event is airing across NBC and USA Network. If you want to watch the World Figure Skating Championships on TV, you’ll need a cable package that includes NBC and USA. Don’t have cable?...
- 3/20/2024
- by Tim Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The best skaters in the world are in Montreal this week to compete in the 2024 World Figure Skating Championships. The action will get underway on Wednesday, March 20 at 12 noon Et with the pairs’ short program. Two-time United States champion Ilia Malinin will highlight the men’s singles competition while U.S. champion Amber Glenn will lead the women’s singles field. The competition runs through Sunday, Peacock will provide coverage of every skater in every discipline while USA Network and NBC will pick up select events as well. You can watch USA Network and NBC with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream. You can also watch with Sling TV, Hulu Live TV, Fubo, Peacock, or YouTube TV.
How to Watch 2024 World Figure Skating Championships When: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 12:00 Pm Edt TV: USA Network, NBC Stream: Watch with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream. 5-Day Free Trial$79.99+ / month directv.
How to Watch 2024 World Figure Skating Championships When: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 12:00 Pm Edt TV: USA Network, NBC Stream: Watch with a 5-Day Free Trial of Directv Stream. 5-Day Free Trial$79.99+ / month directv.
- 3/20/2024
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
“Kung Fu Panda 4” (Universal) and “Dune: Part Two” (Warner Bros.) came in a close #1-#2 this weekend, with the DreamWorks Animation title edging out Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi adaptation by just under $1 million ($30 million to $29.1 million). The two films, in their second and third weekends respectively, are positioned to exceed their most optimistic pre-release projections.
Going against last year’s trend of disappointing franchise results, the two sequels made up about two thirds of the weekend’s $90 million total. With little help from other new releases, this fell just short of last year’s $92 million. It reduced the year’s deficit to nine percent.
“Dune” joined WB’s “Wonka” as the second film to pass the domestic $200 million total since last July. By next weekend, it will surpass that film’s $218 million gross.
How high could it go? Pre-release, the most optimistic hopes were perhaps $250 million — $150 million more than the first “Dune,...
Going against last year’s trend of disappointing franchise results, the two sequels made up about two thirds of the weekend’s $90 million total. With little help from other new releases, this fell just short of last year’s $92 million. It reduced the year’s deficit to nine percent.
“Dune” joined WB’s “Wonka” as the second film to pass the domestic $200 million total since last July. By next weekend, it will surpass that film’s $218 million gross.
How high could it go? Pre-release, the most optimistic hopes were perhaps $250 million — $150 million more than the first “Dune,...
- 3/17/2024
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
To call Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus a concert film would be correct and also drastically inadequate. What unfolds onscreen is no mere performance, no mere gesture, but a face-to-face between presence and absence. Beginning its theatrical run just before the one-year anniversary of Sakamoto’s death from cancer, at 71, the handsome film is a testament to the artistic spirit and, above all, an act of love — by the performer, who was facing mortality and thinking of legacy, and by the director, Neo Sora, who is Ryuichi Sakamoto’s son.
The performances captured in Opus were filmed over a week in September 2022, at a studio in Tokyo’s Nhk Broadcasting Center that Sakamoto believed offers the finest acoustics in Japan. He and Sora embarked on this project while Sakamoto was still well enough to perform. Other than the unseen filmmakers, there is no audience. Alone at a Yamaha grand, a bright...
The performances captured in Opus were filmed over a week in September 2022, at a studio in Tokyo’s Nhk Broadcasting Center that Sakamoto believed offers the finest acoustics in Japan. He and Sora embarked on this project while Sakamoto was still well enough to perform. Other than the unseen filmmakers, there is no audience. Alone at a Yamaha grand, a bright...
- 3/16/2024
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Directed by Neo Sora, “Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus” records the final performance of its namesake composer and musician prior to his death from cancer in March 2023. Per Sora, Sakamoto’s son, “Opus” is less a documentary than a concert film, capturing 20 tracks — electronic, orchestral, and everything in between — from his multifaceted career as they’re played on the piano in crisp black and white, in lighting that transitions from night to day and back to night.
As he explains, it was no small task to chronicle what he knew could be his father’s last artistic gift to the world. But when speaking about the film, Sora maintains a studied objectivity that focuses more on the process of making it than the feelings behind it — much less about his father in general. Even as a fan of Sakamoto’s since the days of Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor,” it’s...
As he explains, it was no small task to chronicle what he knew could be his father’s last artistic gift to the world. But when speaking about the film, Sora maintains a studied objectivity that focuses more on the process of making it than the feelings behind it — much less about his father in general. Even as a fan of Sakamoto’s since the days of Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Last Emperor,” it’s...
- 3/15/2024
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
Here at Asian Movie Pulse, we have had a fantastic year of covering manga and manhwa (and a healthy dose of light novels) as we continue to expand our coverage of the medium. 2023 marked a remarkable year of new titles that deeply engrossed us in the pages throughout the year. The most significant change is coming from the heavier move towards publishing Manhwa titles, marking the first year we include South Korean comics as a major consideration for what made the past year so memorable.
Counting down to our favorite manga release of the year, these 20 titles highlight the best manga and manhwa releases of 2023.
20. Pandora Seven by Yuta Kayashima
“Scale, wing, vine, hair…none of that mattered to Lia, because her friends and mother loved her. She lived happily and peacefully—an almost worry-free existence. As the sole member of humania on the island, of course she dreamed about meeting others of her kind.
Counting down to our favorite manga release of the year, these 20 titles highlight the best manga and manhwa releases of 2023.
20. Pandora Seven by Yuta Kayashima
“Scale, wing, vine, hair…none of that mattered to Lia, because her friends and mother loved her. She lived happily and peacefully—an almost worry-free existence. As the sole member of humania on the island, of course she dreamed about meeting others of her kind.
- 12/12/2023
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
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