J.B. Spins

As early as the Elizabethan era, the play within the play has been a postmodern device for meta-truth-telling. Such is particularly the c...

Yasutaka Tsutsui’s 1965 time travel novel has inspired at least three features and one television series, but each one is substantially d...

It is the sort of film that seems to go out of its way to sow confusion. Since its initial release, the original 156-minute cut and a tru...

In 1980, it was not Japan’s veterans who were a menace to society. It was their twisted war reporters. At least such was the case with Ku...

American publishers are still trying to catch up with Kadokawa. In the late 1970s, media mogul Haruki Kadokawa started a film production ...