In her second film, Japanese director Chie Hayakawa ('Plan 75') tells a deeply personal story about a crucial summer in the ...

Welcome back to the FLUCTUS channel for a discussion about Japan’s “Rickshaw Girls,” who work long days to provide rides to tourists and visitors. Fluctus is a website and YouTube channel dedicated to ...

Plan 75' director Chie Hayakawa delivers an impressionistic story of an inquisitive girl's summer of life, death and amateur ...

The announcement that a film called "Renoir" would be screening at this year's Cannes Film Festival was not necessarily cause ...

A Japanese girl once described as the reincarnation of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham is taking her already formidable percussion skills to the next level overseas. Raised in Ishikari ...

TSUKUBA, Ibaraki Prefecture--Hinako Komori quickly recognized that a stuffed specimen at a museum storehouse was likely a long-extinct Japanese wolf. But the elementary school girl faced ...