FOOD DELIVERY: FRESH FROM THE PHILIPPINE SEA is a powerful, urgent documentary that plunges into the contested waters of the West Philippine Sea, where Filipino fishermen, the Coast Guard, and Navy defend the nation’s maritime sovereignty. As China’s incursions escalate, the film captures the perilous lives of those who risk everything not only to fish […]
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Spanning 150 years of history between the United States and Japan, DIAMOND DIPLOMACY reveals how the shared love of baseball became an enduring bridge between two nations. Anchored by the stories of Japanese pitcher Masanori “Mashi” Murakami—the first Japanese player in Major League Baseball—and American Warren Cromartie, the film traces how sports intersect with racism,
CLIMBING FOR LIFE, the newest work from acclaimed filmmaker Junji Sakamoto, is an inspiring biopic of pioneering Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei. In 1975, Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest and later the first to complete the Seven Summits, conquering the highest peaks on every continent and redefining what women could achieve in
BOSS is a riotous action-comedy that flips the gangster genre on its head. Opening with a flashback to their swaggering youth—when any of them could have become the next don—the film leaps to the present, where the once-fearsome crew now faces middle age, fading street cred, and mundane dreams like opening a Korean-Chinese food franchise.
In May 2024, the Pacific was shaken by the shocking news of a murder in Samoa. The perpetrator was Sia Figiel—a groundbreaking novelist and poet, celebrated worldwide as the first to give voice to the struggles of Samoan girls and women. The victim was her close friend and fellow poet. For eight years, Hawai‘i-based, award-winning
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BEFORE THE BRIGHT DAY, the poignant directorial debut of emerging Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Han Tsao, captures a young man’s turbulent coming-of-age against the backdrop of the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis. Chou, labeled a “B-class loser” by his teacher, yearns for more than his uneventful adolescence—especially with Min, the girl he likes, placed in the elite A-class.
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Adapted from an unfinished work by acclaimed dramatist Hisashi Inoue, ARMY ON THE TREE is inspired by real events on the Okinawan island of Iejima in the final days of World War II. Inoue, whose plays often examined the legacy of war and the shared responsibility of ordinary Japanese citizens, conceived the story as a
Between death and rebirth lies “another world,” a dazzling realm where souls await reincarnation. Here, Gudo, a spirit guide, escorts the departed on their journeys—until he encounters Yuri, a young girl consumed by grief and rage. Ordered by the Goddess Mira to prevent Yuri’s transformation into a monster, Gudo embarks on a perilous mission that
Every year, Shige has to get permission from the Hokkaido government, the fishermen’s union, the organization that fosters salmon, and the police department before he can start Marek fishing. He’ll get caught as a poacher if he catches a salmon without those permissions, even though his sole purpose of this it to keep the tradition
