While Makoto Shinkai’s anime hit "your name." has received a wider release in English-speaking territories than many other animated films from Japan, it’s still not on the same scale as mainstream ...

Living near Paris, Iyane (He/Him) is mainly covering Japanese media on DualShockers. He started his writing career in 2018 after being scouted for his blogging and talent for live-translating Japanese ...

Between 4D-equipped multiplexes, tiny arthouses and revival theatres, Tokyo is a filmgoers’ paradise – providing said filmgoers are fluent in Japanese. For the rest of us, seeing any film that isn’t a ...

Two Japanese films with English subtitles will be shown for free in Kyoto this month. "One Million Yen Girl," directed by Yuki Tanada in 2008, will start at 2 p.m. Nov. 20, while "Dearest," by Yasuo ...

The Switch version of LOOPERS will launch on June 2 in Japan for 3,520 yen, according to listings at retailes such as Rakuten Books. The game will support English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese ...

UPDATE 22/02/2017 4pm: Nier: Automata is out on the Japanese PlayStation Network and not only does it have English subtitles, its voice-acting is in English as well. Even stranger, this is the default ...

Movie subtitles have been considered a uniquely Japanese custom. Although foreign films are also shown with vernacular subtitles abroad, dubbing is the mainstream in many countries. In Italy, every ...