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How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey through cultural mixing.

Just after midnight on 10 March 1945, the US launched an air-based attack on eastern Tokyo; continuing until morning, the raid left more than 100,000...

The image of “snow monkeys” submerged in a hot spring as snow falls around them is iconic. These are Japanese macaques, the northernmost...

A documentary exploring what it means to be Japanese.

A journey into the unique, often bizarre, world of Japanese cat culture. Cat themed cafes, bars, temples, cat islands, cats with human jobs, cat...

Insomnies is an impressionistic look at the city at night, avoiding the clichés of commercial or tourist films and suggesting instead a...

A group of friends come up with the brilliant idea of testing the non-existent drink known as "Tea Coffee".

The basis of the experimental film Sky Spirits are real-life shots of fireworks. The authors of the film have collected these shots from the year...

Back in May 2013, The One Piece Podcast managed to run a successful Kickstarter which funded a trip to Japan to film a One Piece documentary like...

Experience a mystical journey through nature performed by a movement artist. Felix faces the whirling challenges of his inner turbulence with an...

Made in Japan, Last Room is both fiction and documentary. The occupants of the love-hotels and capsule-hotels tell their own intimate, dreamlike...