Rated: PG-13 Starring: Kevin Klein, Kevin Costner, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Rosanna Arquette, John Cleese, Jeff Goldblum, Brian...

Written and Directed by: Phil Grabsky Documentary/Biography Running time: 2 hours 19 minutes This 2009 documentary begins with the words:...

<About the Book> Kenji Miyazawa, a fairy-tale writer, is famous for "Night on the Galactic Railroad" and "The Restaurant of Many Orders"...

Rated: R Stars: Daisy Edgar Jones, Paul Mescal Director: Lenny Abrahamson and Hettie MacDonald Screenplay: Sally Rooney and Alice Burch...

<Author and content> The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947. Camus was born in 1913 in Algeria,...

Stars: Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Yuh-Jung Youn, Will Patton, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho Director: Lee Isaac Chung Writer: Lee Isaac Chung...

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Rufus Seawell Rated: PG-13 Director: Florian Zeller Writers: Christopher Hampton (screenplay),...

After the Great Tohoku Earthquake 10 years ago in Japan, foreign friends who were impressed with the reconstruction, the cooperation,...

<Author and Content> "The Bluest Eye" published in 1970 and written by Nobel Prize in Literature writer Toni Morrison was shocking....

Cast: Audrey Hepburn Rated: G I have seen another film about Audrey Hepburn a few years ago so I almost did not watch this because I...

Stars: Taylor Swift Rated: PG-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40RsbcFRwNA This 2020 documentary about the life of Taylor Swift was...

Staring: Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins Rated: R “Citizen Kane” is often credited as the greatest movie ever made and Orson...

The new movie "Nishikita Chopin (Left of Chopin)" will be released on March 26 at "Cine Pipia" (Mefu, Takarazuka City, Japan). Prior to...

Rated: R Staring: Frances McDormand, David Strathairn Frances McDormand plays a woman named Fern who is recently widowed and has lost her...

I have been participating in a book club in the suburb of San Francisco since 2004. At a monthly meeting of 6 or 7 Japanese we share our...

(a holy mythological‐beast, Kirin) The airing of the “Taiga drama” (series of NHK history drama) 「Kirin ga Kuru 」“Qilin is coming*” (see...

“Alternation of three cold and four warm days（三寒四温)” Here in the western part of Tokyo, the temperature on warm days is higher than usual...

Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James Rated PG-13 This film is based on a true story that took place in 1939 just before...

Staring: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Gore, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom Jr. Rated: R The film is set in February of 1964 on the night a young...

Rating:PG-13 Staring: Tom Hanks, Helena Zengel I haven’t seen an old time Western movie is a very long time. However, this isn’t your...