Rental Family is a rather bizarre premise for a film. especially to those of us here in NA region. Much of it because this film stars Brendan Fraser as he plays a struggling actor who takes on an odd job at a rental family agency in Japan. What is that, you might ask? Well, it's a business practice
Fans of Pokémon would certainly understand the appeal of the Pokémon Room. After all. it's not every day that you can stay in a completely Pokémon-themed hotel room, with emphasis on "completely". Each of these hotel rooms features a total of 100 different Pokémon integrated into them. Some of
Godzilla is one of Japan's most iconic figures. It's not hard to see why either. The sight of a skyscraper-sized kaiju smashing cities left and right is just so recognizable that it's hard to find anyone in the world who doesn't recognize the big dinosaur-like kaiju. It's also not hard to see why
Ghost Cat Anzu is one of the most unique anime films in a long while. Mostly because of the way this French-Japanese anime film adaptation of the manga of the same name by Takashi Imashiro does its animation. Apparently, production companies Shin-Ei Animation and Miyu Productions filmed all the
Ghost of Tsushima is one of the most renowned games in recent times. And by recent, I mean four years ago for the PS4 in July 17, 2020; but it's still a fairly recent game. Not only that, but it's a very well-received one too. It's effectively an Assassin's Creed game set in Tsushima Island, Japan
Back in 2020, Ghost of Tsushima from developers Sucker Punch Productions (Sly Cooper, inFAMOUS) made quite a few gaming headlines. It's no wonder too. The game is basically an Assassin's Creed game set in Japan (specifically Tsushima Island), but done far better and more respectfully than Ubisoft
Mother 3 is the third and final installment in the Nintendo's Mother series of video games. US gamers would be more familiar with its localized name of EarthBound 2. Neither of these might mean much to most modern gamers, which is a crying shame. The Mother / EarthBound series is quite possibly one
Netflix looks like they're developing a ninja obsession with their upcoming House of Ninjas. And to be honest, who wouldn't be obsessed with ninjas? They have a mystique to them that both their home nation of Japan and overseas nations alike perfectly understand. All you have to do is look at how
Remaking Faces of Death is a hell of a move in 2026. Although, this movie doesn't really remake that diabolical film from 1978, it instead takes inspiration from it and it even exists in the universe that this film takes place in. So getting that out of the way so that the horror "diehards" who
The trailer for A24's The Drama does a great job of keeping things intentionally vague. We meet Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple about to get married who seem like they know everything about each other… until they very clearly don’t. One drunken night at dinner with
When Margaret Atwood returned to Gilead almost 35 years later, with her book The Testaments, the sequel to her seminal The Handmaid’s Tale, they said she could never match its genius. The story more than matched her 1985 dystopian classic, winning the 2019 Booker Prize, feeling horrifically timely
