Japanese cinema has a long, rich tradition of acting excellence. From the early days of the silent era until the present, Japan has birthed some of the greatest film actors of the twentieth and twenty ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sakaki Hideo, a well-known Japanese actor and film director, was arrested on Tuesday in Tokyo on suspicion of sexual assault.

Tatsuya Nakadai, beloved star of Japan’s golden age of cinema and a frequent collaborator of legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, has died aged 92. The actor, who rose to fame working with Japanese ...

Japanese actor Tatsuya Nakadai, best known for his roles in “Ran,” “Harakiri” and “The Human Condition” trilogy, died Saturday in Tokyo. He was 92. Nakadai died of pneumonia in a hospital, according ...

The production team has since cast Chinese-American actor Daniel Wu instead. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Sanada is only the second Asian actor to ever win in the category, calling the project "an east meets west dream project." By Brande Victorian Deputy Awards Editor Hiroyuki Sanada won best lead actor ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: A tremendous amount of love and care and effort went into FX‘s Shōgun. The fact alone that each script was painstakingly translated from English into Japanese, then ...