The filmmaker’s popularity struck at a formative time for a medium poised to smash narrative styles, influencing “Final Fantasy VII,” “Silent Hill 2,” “Alan Wake” and more.

Experience a master-class in psychological survival horror on the latest hardware with chilling visuals and visceral sounds.

Compared to the macabre beauty of Masahiro Ito's creations, Downpour's monsters are somewhat uninspired, using straightforwardly humanoid shapes and clichés like gas masks and dolls. The first ...

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country's nascent #MeToo ...

It is not just pop culture that is facing a reckoning. Last year a female prosecutor in Osaka, in west of Japan, accused a ...

“Even though we’re Oscar-nominated, I haven’t been able to show my film in Japan,” Ito said. One of Japan’s biggest pop stars and best-known TV hosts, Masahiro Nakai, yesterday announced his ...

Japanese journalist Shiori Ito won a landmark civil case in 2019 ... told AFP in the wake of the scandal surrounding celebrity Masahiro Nakai and Fuji TV. Former boy band star Nakai was accused ...

Shiori Ito, who won a landmark civil case in 2019 against a prominent TV reporter accused of raping her, said she was not surprised to hear about the Nakai allegations. "Japanese media are more ...

Fuji Media chair and TV unit head resign amid public and advertiser outrage over broadcaster’s handling of misconduct ...

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country's nascent #MeToo movement told AFP in the wake of the scandal surrounding celebrity Masahiro ...