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The 8 Show is a South Korean dark comedy thriller series created by Han Jae-rim. Based on a Naver webtoon titled Money Game and Pie Game by Bae Jin-soo, the Netflix series follows the story of eight cash-strapped people as they participate in a mysterious game that gives them money just to be present but as time progresses things start to go a bit crazy. The 8 Show stars Ryu Jun-yeol, Chun Woo-hee, Park Jeong-min, Lee Yul-em, Park Hae-joon, Lee Zoo-young, Moon Jeong-hee, and Bae Seong-woo. So, if you love psychological drama and dark comedy with brilliant performances in The 8 Show here are some similar shows you could watch next.

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Alice in Borderland is a Japanese sci-fi survival thriller series created by Yoshiki Watabe, Yasuko Kuramitsu, and Shinsuke Sato. Based on a graphic novel of the same name by Haro Aso, the Netflix...

“Living in a paradise of blue waters and skies. It’s the touristy image most Japanese have… The locals want to see realism in films about Okinawa” director Yasuhiro Yoshida explains in a recent interview with Jff+. Since December, the streaming platform has uploaded a lineup of free-to-watch titles, including Yoshida’s 2013 feature “Leaving on the 15th Spring”. A gentle, heartfelt drama, the movie brews an unexpectedly nuanced message about growing up, that is both unique and universal.

Leaving on the 15th Spring is streaming as part of Jff+ Independent Cinema

Yuna (Ayaka Miyoshi) is turning 15 soon, a momentous age on her small home island, Minami-Daito. On Minami-Daito, there is no school for children above 14 years-old. As children turn 15, they must all leave to the main island to attend high school. We follow Yuna across her final year, preparing for departure as she juggles teenagehood, budding romance and growing pains.

The twisted competition at the center of "Alice in Borderland" is back, and it looks like the games aren't done just yet. A "super teaser trailer" for season 2 of the popular show, which is based on the manga series of the same name by Haro Aso, was revealed during Netflix's Tudum fan event, and it looks like we're in for another wild ride.

The teaser shows the return of protagonists Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) and Usagi (Tao Tsuchiya) after that massive cliffhanger at the end of the last season. After completing a number of increasingly deadly challenges, they learned to their dismay that there are even more coming as the games enter a second phase. We also get our first look at some of the other contestants roped into the games, as well as shots of the sadistic gamemaster Mira (Riisa Naka), who looks to be a more menacing presence this season.

The combination of family drama and quirky comedy has always been dominant in the Japanese movie industry, with a plethora of titles following the rules of the category. Thus, it is always interesting to find movies that manage to truly stand out. “Good Morning Everyone” (aka G’mor evian!) is definitely one of those titles, although not for the inclusion of punk music as the promotion of the title insisted, but for the comments it makes and its rather likable characters.

Hatsuki is a fifteen year old student who lives with her mother, Aki, who had her when she was seventeen with a man the former has never met. Aki used to be in a punk band and is the type of mother that is more a friend with her daughter, than a parent, with the switching in roles frequently taking place. Yagu is a young man who was the lead singer of the band,...

The friendship of two young women at the same stage of life is tested by a pregnancy. Hajime Tsuda’s debut film “Daughters” about the dynamics of female bonding is set in the miraculous city of Tokyo and was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for the Asian New Talent Award in the category best film.

“Daughters” is streaming on Sakka Films

Koharu (Ayaka Miyoshi) and Ayano (Yunko Abe) are flatmates. One is event manager and the other works in fashion marketing. As Ayano gets pregnant by a common friend, who left the country, the friends have to decide whether or not to keep the baby. The major decision takes them on a journey of self-revelation.

Coming from an event marketing background, director and writer Hajime Tsuda puts its characters into the shiny world of pop-up stores and nightclubbing. Ayano and Koharu know how to enjoy life, but at...

Howling Village Review — Howling Village / Inunaki mura (2019) Film Review, a movie directed by Takashi Shimizu, and starring Ayaka Miyoshi, Ryota Bando, Tsuyoshi Furukawa, Renji Ishibashi, Takamasa Suga, Hina Mayano, Megumi Okina, Reiko Takashima, Rinka Otani, Masanobu Takashima, Minori Terada, Akira Sasamoto, and Ken Tanaka. Takashi Shimizu’s recent entry, Howling Village, draws its plot [...]

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All Hallows' Eve In Salem: "Trick Or Treat?! Join the Monster’s as they prepare for Halloween in Salem!

Halloween time is upon us in Salem! Salem is a place where monsters are not feared but looked upon as pillars of Halloween and the community. Join Frankie, Wolfie, the Witches and many more as they prepare their costumes and treats for a night of fun and togetherness! Salem truly is the Unofficial Town of Halloween, especially when the moon is full on All Hallows’ Eve.

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Watch a Clip from Howling Village: "After her brother goes missing, Kanade, a young psychologist visits his last known location, an infamous haunted and cursed site known as...

Directed by veteran-actress turned filmmaker Hitomi Kuroki, “The Devil Wears Jini-Hitoe Kimono” is a visually impressive movie that focuses though, a bit too much on impression instead of substance, much like its title.

Rai Ito is a young man who has failed 59 times to land a regular job, working mostly part-time in whatever work comes his way. His girlfriend is fed up with his failures, and inevitably dumps him, while his brother’s success in passing the medical school entrance exams, puts even more pressure on him, particularly since he feels that he does not fit even with his family. As the story begins, he is working on setting up an exhibition for classic novel “The Tale of Genji”, which the film synopsizes through a rather appealing retro-style animation. The parts about the two brothers, Ninomiya and Ichinomiya, resonate with him since he has a similar relationship with his younger brother.

Ever since the critical and commercial success of Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land”, the musical, once representative of the old Hollywood studio system, has experienced some kind of comeback. While it seems more like an escapist fantasy to some with its dance and singing routines seemingly coming out of the blue and its wild, vibrant colors, the tales of people being lifted out of their at times dire environment and going through an adventure of their own, make it perhaps the best suited genre for a world in desperate need for some entertainment and fluff. Japanese director Shinobu Yaguchi has been making quite a name for himself as the maker of light entertainment, which has been very successful, also international level. His latest feature “Can’t Stop the Dancing” is no exception to the rule as it tells the story of a businesswoman finding her true calling, while at the...

The friendship of two young women at the same stage of life is tested by a pregnancy. Hajime Tsuda’s debut film “Daughters” about the dynamics of female bonding is set in the miraculous city of Tokyo and was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for the Asian New Talent Award in the category best film.

“Daughters” is Screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival

Koharu (Ayaka Miyoshi) and Ayano (Yunko Abe) are flatmates. One is event manager and the other works in fashion marketing. As Ayano gets pregnant by a common friend, who left the country, the friends have to decide whether or not to keep the baby. The major decision takes them on a journey of self-revelation.

Coming from an event marketing background, director and writer Hajime Tsuda puts its characters into the shiny world of pop-up stores and nightclubbing. Ayano and Koharu know how to enjoy life,...

The friendship of two young women at the same stage of life is tested by a pregnancy. Hajime Tsuda’s debut film “Daughters” about the dynamics of female bonding is set in the miraculous city of Tokyo and was nominated at the Shanghai International Film Festival for the Asian New Talent Award in the category best film.

“Daughters” is screening on Japannual Film Festival in Vienna

Koharu (Ayaka Miyoshi) and Ayano (Yunko Abe) are flatmates. One is event manager and the other works in fashion marketing. As Ayano gets pregnant by a common friend, who left the country, the friends have to decide whether or not to keep the baby. The major decision takes them on a journey of self-revelation.

Coming from an event marketing background, director and writer Hajime Tsuda puts its characters into the shiny world of pop-up stores and nightclubbing. Ayano and Koharu know how to enjoy life,...

North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema presents a diverse slate of 42 films, with over 20 guest filmmakers and talent in person for daily post-screening Q&As, including Cut Above awardee Shinya Tsukamoto.

Premiering 26 features and 16 short films, the summer festival offers a deep dive into one of the world’s most vital film cultures with a diverse selection across its Feature Slate, Classics: Rediscoveries and Restorations, Documentary Focus, Experimental Spotlight and Shorts Showcase sections. This year’s lineup features 19 first-time filmmakers and 14 female directors (the most in the festival’s history), including 10 International Premieres, 16 North American Premieres, 4 U.S. Premieres, 4 East Coast Premieres and 6 New York Premieres. In addition, over 20 guest filmmakers and talent from Japan will join the festival to participate in post-screening Q&As and parties.

“This 13th edition of Japan Cuts provides testament to the continued vitality of contemporary Japanese cinema with a wide array...

Centrepiece Highlight

World Premiere of “Dance With Me”

Director Shinobu Yaguchi, Lead Actress Ayaka Miyoshi in attendance

Opening Night

North American Premiere of Masayuki Suzuki’s mystery thriller, “Masquerade Hotel“

Special Guests:

Star of “Love’s Twisting Path” – Mikako Tabe

Director of award-winning “Born Bone Born” – Comedian Toshiyuki Teruya “Gori”

Director Tatsushi Omori – “When My Mom Died, I Wanted to Eat Her Ashes” and “Every Day a Good Day”

Star of “The Gambler’s Odyssey 2020” – Takumi Saitoh

The samurai, of the cinematic variety, are set to descend on Toronto this summer. They are joined by reluctant sake brewers, yakuza assassins, tea ceremony sages, deadly mahjong-playing robots, dashing hotel detectives, and calculating masters of “corporate kabuki”.

Now in its eighth year, the 2019 Toronto Japanese Film Festival brings Toronto audiences 28 of the finest contemporary Japanese films recognized for excellence by Japanese audiences and critics, international film festival audiences and the Japanese Film Academy.

In “Inuyashiki,” an alien encounter mutates two unsuspecting charaters — one, a decrepit salaryman, the other, a neighborhood teenager — into indestructible cyborgs, but contrary to genre conventions, it’s the kid who turns evil, leaving the wussy old codger to save the day. Adapted from a manga by Hiroya Oku, this Japanese genre effort is ably directed by Shinsuke Sato, who foregrounds interpersonal relationships and human emotion over action and effects. The fact that English translations of the 10-volume series exist digitally, while an anime miniseries can be viewed on Amazon Prime Video, should boost the film’s overseas potential. Meanwhile, in a country with the world’s highest elderly population, the action movie’s anti-ageist thrust — demonstrating how undervalued senior citizens kick ass — proves unexpectedly heart-warming.

From “Parasyste” to “Gantz” (also written by Oku), Japanese science fiction is rife with stories of humans merging with androids or aliens. Of this tradition,...

The official website for Toru Yamamoto’s Good Morning Everyone! has been relaunched with a new teaser trailer.

Based on a novel by Toriko Yoshikawa, the movie stars Kumiko Aso as a former punk rock guitarist named Aki who lives with her 15-year-old daughter Hatsuki (Ayaka Miyoshi), who she shares a friend-like relationship with.

One day, Aki’s former bandmate Yagu (Yo Oizumi) returns home after being overseas for two years and Hatsuki soon starts getting irritated by the way Aki puts up with Yagu’s carefree lifestyle.

Meanwhile, Hatsuki is upset about her best friend Tomo transferring to a new school—a situation Aki and Yagu can relate to.

“Good Morning Everyone!” will be released by Showgate in Japan this December.