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The new, highly anticipated Japanese series “My Undead Yokai Girlfriend” arrives on Prime Video on Friday, March 22. The series uses Japanese folklore Yokai and otaku to tell the story of a strange relationship between a lonely college student named Tadashi and Izzy, a Yokai girl who accidentally finds herself bonded to him through a magical hex. However, Izzy has a darker intention than Tadashi realizes. You can watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Amazon Prime Video.

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College student Tadashi “Hachi” Inukai (played by Hayato Sano) is tired of feeling like a loser and wants to find a girlfriend. But that all changes when he accidentally conducts a mysterious ritual that he finds online.

When in 2001 the inaugural season of D1 Grand Prix (D1GP), subtitled Professional Drift, started, it was, on the one hand, a major event for those fans who had witnessed the contests in the two previous years, but also the foundation of a way of racing which would slowly but surely take the world by storm. Considering its anniversary last year, there was enough reason to celebrate, but also to attract younger audiences, which is perhaps one of the factors that went into the idea of “Alive Hoon”, the first feature in which D1GP would be the backdrop about a story about personal growth. In other words, director Ten Shimoyama would direct a project which essentially wants to do the same thing Tony Scott’s “Days of Thunder” has done for NASCAR racing.

Alive Hoon is screening at Asian Pop Up Cinema

Even tough he has been a major talent at e-sports,...

The fourth and most commercial film by Kenichi Ugana, “Rolling Marbles” was released as the 15th anniversary movie of the famous Nylon Japan, a magazine devoted to “pop, rock and alternative girls!”, and has already been selected to screen at Cinequest Film Festival.

The story takes place in Tokyo, where three girls in their 20s are sharing an apartment on the edge of Shibuya, which is, though, about to get demolished due to the continuous redevelopment of the area. Ai is working part-time at a hotel but strives to become a model; however, she is repeatedly pinned down by people of fashion, who tell her that she needs to lose even more weight and that she has to change her attitude during photo shoots. Her meeting with a famous model, nervtheless, gives her hope. Erika wants to become a folk singer and spends many of her afternoons singing with her guitar on the street,...

Yesterday, the supporting cast of Yasuhiro Kawamura’s Akko’s Secret was revealed to Japanese media via press release.

The film is a live-action adaptation of Fujio Akatsuka’s classic “Himitsu no Akko-chan” manga series (1962-1965) about a 10-year-old girl who receives a magical mirror which lets her transform into whatever she wishes. In this live-action version, Haruka Ayase stars as Akko-chan after using the mirror to transform herself into a 22-year-old woman.

It was previously known that Masaki Okada would play Naoto Hayase, an elite employee of a cosmetics company Akko-chan begins working for.

The newly-announced additions include Teruyuki Kagawa as the spirit of the magical mirror, Shosuke Tanihara and Kazue Fukiishi as fellow company employees, Muga Tsukaji as a security guard who befriends Akko-chan, and Ren Osugi as the company’s former president.

Smaller supporting roles include Riko Yoshida as 10-year-old Akko-chan, Keiko Horiuchi as her mother, Shungiku Uchida...