Driving around Tokyo blaring slogans on the 84th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, ultra-nationalist outfit Taikosha only has around 100 mostly male, middle-aged members. But the ...

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RGG Studio smartly combined real-time combat, ship battles, and a Hawaiian spin on its open-world exploration, all while ...

A three-hour movie about the fading art of kabuki has broken box office records in Japan. It may already be prompting a ...

Masayoshi sees it as RGG Studio's job to make Like A Dragon games and to "spread it globally", adding that "I think people start making strange things when they misunderstand what their business is ...

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The shortlist of 15 films to vie for a 2026 Best International Feature Film Oscar nomination will be revealed December 16.

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Yoshinora Kitase and other Final Fantasy alumni have been talking up Xbox over the past week, as Square Enix seeks to build ...