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Nippon Connection 2025 Award Winners
Six days of unforgettable cinema experiences are over. In its 25th anniversary edition, the Japanese film festival Nippon Connection once again set an audience record with around 20,000 visitors over...
Hotspring Sharkattack (2024) Film Review – We’re Going to Need a Bigger Onsen! [Nippon Connection 2025]
Hotspring Sharkattack (also known as Onsen shâku) is a 2024 Japanese action comedy film written and directed by Morihito Inoue in his feature debut. There have been cases of mysterious...
Love & Pop (1998) Film Review- Hideaki Anno’s Guide to Teen Girl Misery [Nippon Connection 2025]
Did you know Hideaki Anno, best known for Evangelion, has also tackled themes of inner turmoil and depression in live action? If you don’t, no one can blame you. It’s...
Missing Child Videotape (2024) Film Review – Deafening Silence [Nippon Connection 2025]
Missing Child Videotape is a 2024 Japanese supernatural horror film written and directed by Ryota Kondo with additional writing from Suzuyuki Kaneko. Known for directing the short films Akai tegata...
Japan Visits The Main: Nippon Connection Film & Culture Festival 2025
Japan Visits The Main: Frankfurt Becomes A Hotspot Of Japanese Cinema & Culture. The complete program of the 25th Nippon Connection Film Festival May 27 – June 1, 2025, Frankfurt...
Best Wishes to All (2023) Film Review [Nippon Connection]
Best Wishes to All, also known as Mina ni sachi are, is a 2023 Japanese horror film, written and directed by Yuta Shimotsu. An up-and-coming writer/director, Shimotsu is known as...
The J-Horror Virus (2023) Documentary Review – How Japanese Horror went from Tape to Trend [Nippon Connection]
If you ask a Western horror fan, they can probably tell you exactly when they first heard about Hideo Nakata’s cult classic Ringu (1998). Whether it was due to the...