It has been three years since pop auteur Iwai Shunji’s last film Hana and Alice, and his latest offering may seem a bit surprising. In a marked departure from his previous youth-centric works, his new film is a documentary about legendary director Ichikawa Kon, whom Iwai cites as one of his greatest influences. In a [...]

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17 people are confirmed dead and many more are missing when the Seti River in Nepal rose. The death toll could rise as those missing people have less percentage to survive.

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The success of the movie NANA, starring Nakashima Mika and Miyazaki Aoi as two girls with the same name but contrasting personalities, has paved the way for its sequel. Nakashima, who received best newcomer awards and a best actress nomination for NANA, reprises her role for NANA 2, alongside a new line-up of young stars. [...]

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The Inheritance of Loss by a 35-year old Indian writer, Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize (50,000-pound). This book according to “The New Yorker”: Desai’s second novel is set in the nineteen-eighties in the northeast corner of India, where the borders of several Himalayan states—Bhutan and Sikkim, Nepal and Tibet—meet. At the head of [...]

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