Japanese film Umimachi Diary shows you what family is. Sometimes you can choose your family as long as you accept the person.

Tokyo Cowboys is a multilingual and multicultural film production company that specializes in cross-cultural entertainment and tells stories in a short film format that are distinctively Japanese.

The last Japanese film I saw was Sutekina Kanashibari by Kouki Mitani who is one of my favourite film director. What if you can ask a ghost to witness the crime scene? Watch this. You will have a good laugh.

Today many Japanese film fans were shocked to know the great actor, Ken Takakura passed away. Despite of his quiet and emotionally clumsy character, he was a very polite, kind and warm person. RIP Ken Takakura. We will miss you.

Recently I´ve watched a Japanese film Toilet. The director, Naoko Ogigami is one of my favourites as well as the protagonist, Masako Motai. A Japanese Baachan who speaks no English brings whole family together. Toilet teaches you “To be yourself”.

Akiko McQuerrey is a Brooklyn-based Japanese animator who made overfishing song to protest our way of fishing in a gentle but touchy way.

23rd of May is Kiss Day in Japan. Why kiss day? It started just after the WII because of a film of the Japanese director Yasushi Sasaki.