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Japanese actor Koki is swiftly building an international profile that spans continents and genres, from dual roles in a Japanese horror film to sword fighting in 18th century Britain.

The model-turned-musician-turned-actor recently added the Asian Film Awards Rising Star Award to her growing resume, marking her first recognition outside her home country as she prepares to announce a new project based in Hong Kong.

“It means so much to be able to receive an award outside Japan,” Koki tells Variety. “The Rising Star Award gives me so much courage and recognition. I feel like I want to do my all my best to be able to go up to the award.”

The daughter of Japanese entertainment royalty — her father is megastar Takuya Kimura (“Grand Maison Paris”) and her mother is singer Kudo Shizuka — Koki has been carving her own path since showing musical talent at age 7, composing hit songs for...

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Na Hong-Kon’s highly anticipated new thriller feature film “Hope” adds two more cast members: Uhm Tae-goo (from “Night in Paradise”) and Lee Kyu-hyung (from “Seoul Vibe”).

The two join an already star-studded cast-list that is headlined by superstars Hwang Jung-min, Jo In-sung and, in her first feature film role since the unprecedented success of “Squid Game”, Jung Ho-yeon. The production will also Hollywood’s real-life couple Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander in important, English-speaking roles.

Just like Hwang Jung-min, who worked with Na in “The Wailing”, Uhm Tae-goo too will be working with the director again after having recently joined hands with him on his short film “Faith”.

Na Hong-jin, through his production company “Forged Films”, will produce the film alongside Saemi Kim. Ku Tae-jin and Cheon Ji-in will co-produce, whereas Kim Deok-geun and Kim Do-soo will be the executive producers.

The production also confirmed that Na has chosen...

One of the prestigious national cinema awards in Japan presented by the Association of Tokyo Film Journalists, the 65th edition of the Blue Ribbon Awards announced its winners on February 24, 2023. The nominees are selected from movies released in 2022 within the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. Leading with 6 nominations, A Man by Kei Ishikawa, wins Best Film while Plan 75 by Chie Hayakawa picks up Best Director and Best Actress for Chieko Baisho. The full list of winners is described below.

Best Film

A Man

Kingdom 2: To Distant Lands

Small, Slow But Steady

Missing

Silent Parade

Dr Coto’s Clinic

Plan 75

Motherhood

Fragments of the Last Will

Wandering

A Man Best Director

Kei Ishikawa – A Man

Shinzo Katayama – Missing

Takahisa Zeze – Tombi: Father and Son; Fragments of the Last Will

Chie Hayakawa – Plan 75

Ryuichi Hiroki – 2 Women, Motherhood; Phases of the Moon

Best Actor

Sadao Abe – Lesson in Murder; I am...

From Takashi Shimizu, the visionary creator of The Grudge franchise comes the new supernatural horror film Ox-Head Village, which is now streaming on Screambox!

In the horror movie, “After watching a viral video, a woman, who believes that she’s the twin of one of the participants, decides to investigate the town where the video was shot.”

A Screambox Original, Ox-Head Village screened at numerous international festivals including the New York Asian Film Festival and Fantaspoa Film Festival. It stars Kôki (Touch), Riku Hagiwara (Three Sisters of Tenmasou) and Haruka Imô (Kamen Rider Black Sun).

Directed by Shimizu, who also co-wrote the dark and gritty film along with Daisuke Hosaka, the film presents a sinister mystery with a supernatural twist. Creative partners for many years, Shimizu and Hosaka previously worked together on Howling Village and The Shock Labyrinth 3D.

You can also watch Takashi Shimizu’s awesome Suicide Forest Village,...

Happy Valentine’s Day! You might not expect the horror genre to have a very strong showing on a day like this one, but the genre’s bloody heart just never seems to stop beating.

In fact, Six brand new horror movies just released for Valentine’s Day!

Here’s all the new horror released on Tuesday, February 14, 2023.

For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.

From Takashi Shimizu, the visionary creator of The Grudge franchise, comes brand new supernatural horror film Ox-Head Village, which is now streaming on Screambox!

In the horror movie, “After watching a viral video, a woman, who believes that she’s the twin of one of the participants, decides to investigate the town where the video was shot.”

A Screambox Original,Ox-Head Village screened at numerous international festivals including the New York Asian Film Festival and Fantaspoa Film Festival.

Kôki (Touch...

From Takashi Shimizu, the visionary creator of The Grudge franchise, comes the new supernatural horror film Ox-Head Village.

In the horror movie, “After watching a viral video, a woman, who believes that she’s the twin of one of the participants, decides to investigate the town where the video was shot.”

A Screambox Original, Ox-Head Village screened at numerous international festivals including the New York Asian Film Festival and Fantaspoa Film Festival. It stars Kôki (Touch), Riku Hagiwara (Three Sisters of Tenmasou) and Haruka Imô (Kamen Rider Black Sun).

Directed by Shimizu, who also co-wrote the dark and gritty film along with Daisuke Hosaka, the film presents a sinister mystery with a supernatural twist. Creative partners for many years, Shimizu and Hosaka previously worked together on Howling Village and The Shock Labyrinth 3D.

Ox-Head Village will release on digital and stream exclusively on Screambox February 14.

In the meantime, you can...

We are insanely excited to reveal all of the fresh horrors coming to Screambox this month, which include two classic Warner Bros. titles, an extremely rare Bollywood remake of Wes Craven’s Scream, and two brand new Screambox Originals!

First up, two genre favorites from the Warner Bros. catalog have joined Screambox, including Body Snatchers, the incredible ’90s adaptation directed by Abel Ferrara, and Killer Party, the classic 1986 slasher from Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter writer Barney Cohen!

The biggest surprise is Screambox worked feverishly to bring you India’s answer to Scream, Sssshhh, in which a masked killer meets musical numbers. The international slasher streams Exclusively on Screambox on February 3 along with two more Bollywood remakes: Naina, a supernatural horror inspired by The Eye, and Neighbours, a vampire tale that borrows from Fright Night!

Screambox Original Yellow Dragon’s Village arrives on February 7. An hour of grisly, claustrophobic terror,...

Fantaspoa 2022 Announced: "After two years of successful online editions, the 18th edition of the beloved Brazilian genre festival Fantaspoa will return to the cinemas from April 15th through May 1st. This year, attendees will discover a very different Fantaspoa from its last on-site edition (a very distant 2019): instead of its usual two venues, the fest will take place simultaneously in five cinemas, with part of its program also being available online, geo-blocked for viewers within Brazil.

The poster for this year’s festival was conceived by the festival’s art director Thalles Mourão, with the drawing from local artist Fernanda Moreira. The striking image is a mashup of two centenary anniversaries: The Modern Art Week, one of Brazil’s greatest art movements, and F. W. Murnau’s 1922 masterpiece of cinema, Nosferatu: A Symphony Of Horror.

Nosferatu will also have a very special screening on the opening night of the festival,...

Stars: Rinka Otani, Anna Yamada, Mayu Yamaguch, Fuju Kamio, Haruka Kudo, Hideko Hara, Yumi Adachi | Written by Takashi Shimizu, Daisuke Hosaka | Directed by Takashi Shimizu

Suicide Forest Village is the latest film from Takashi Shimizu, best known as the writer and director of The Grudge, both the original Japanese film and its US remake. But he has contributed a lot more to the genre both before and since. That includes an episode in another popular franchise, Tomie: Re-birth as well as Flight 7500 and Howling Village.

YouTuber Akina (Rinka Otani) livestreamed her trip into Aokigahara, the so-called Suicide Forest to prove that you can enter it and leave again. Needless to say things don’t go as planned. Hibiki watches it, both horrified and fascinated by what she sees.

The next day while she and her sister Mei (Mayu Yamaguch; Last Ninja-Red Shadow) are helping Akira and Miyu move they...

Centenary screening of Nosferatu, world premiere of stoner comedy The Smoke Master bookend event.

Brazil’s Fantaspoa genre festival, billed as the largest of its kind in Latin America, is returning to an in-person event for the first time since 2019 and has unveiled its first wave of titles.

This year’s International Fantastic Film Festival of Porto Alegre will take place in five cinemas around the southern city from April 15-May 1. It is bookended by a special opening night centenary screening of F. W. Murnau’s vampire classic Nosferatu accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by Carlos Ferreira and Brazilian...