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Sony Corp. plans to distribute superfine, 4K-resolution movies online exclusively for customers of its next-generation televisions, President and CEO Kazuo Hirai said.

In the latter half of the last decade, the term "black corporations" gained online currency with young Japanese job seekers and laborers at companies that overwork their...

Local businesses could have turned to Buddhism or Christianity to boost the profile of the western Tokyo city of Tachikawa, but instead they have taken a more demonic approach.

A movie about the true-life story of the unified Korean team that won the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba will be released in Japanese theaters on April 20.

MIYAKO, Iwate Prefecture--Once fearful that the Cinemarine might close, moviegoers are now anxiously anticipating the next summer blockbuster playing here at the coastal area's ...

Actor Rentaro Mikuni, well known for his nuanced performances in such classics as "Kiga Kaikyo" (Hunger straits) and "The Burmese Harp," died on April 14 of acute respiratory...

SEOUL--When North Korean spy Pyo Jong-seong's arms deal for Pyongyang goes wrong in Berlin, he knows it is time to flee with his wife from agents of the vengeful and isolated...

Even Godzilla is no match for a robotic cat from the future, as the "Doraemon" film series surpassed the 100 million mark at the domestic box office since the first film was...

HONG KONG--The surprise hit in Chinese theaters last year was a low-budget, wacky road-trip comedy that even beat out global blockbuster "Avatar" to become the country's...

A father with two small daughters longed for a son. His wife bore a third child; again, a girl. Determined to rejoice in the birth of another daughter—and to overcome his...

Etsuko Takano, a pioneer of "mini theater" and driving force in bringing artistic foreign movies to Japan, died in Tokyo of cancer on Feb. 9, her family said. She was 83.

Japanese films accounted for 65.7 percent of the country's box office total last year, the first time homegrown cinema has broken the 60-percent threshold since 1969, an...

MIYAKO, Iwate Prefecture--After surviving the devastating tsunami of March 2011, Cinemarine, the only movie house in the coastal area here, is faced with yet another crisis:...

The 23rd Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival will be held Feb. 21-25 in Yubari, Hokkaido.

MARRAKECH, Morocco--For once, the storytellers, snake charmers and food stalls were gone from Marrakech's main square and in their place pulsed a crowd of thousands of people...