Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Corry, a French coordinator of pediatric heart transplants, is sent to Japan where organ donation remains taboo,” reads a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Organ donation may be a miracle of modern medicine, though in Japan, it remains a divisive practice, in conflict with certain ...

The late addition brings the main competition section of the Swiss festival to 18 titles. By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor Past plot descriptions of the movie have said that it tells the story ...

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first clip from Naomi Kawase’s latest feature Yakushima’s Illusion, which is premiering at the Locarno Film Festival on August 15. The film, which is being sold by Cinefrance ...

TOKYO (AP) — A sense of loss and the fear of death are recurring themes in the movies by Japanese director Naomi Kawase, whose earliest works were hand-held camera shots of the woman who raised her.

The Marrakech International Film Festival has unveiled the 10 cinema figures who will participate in its In Conversation With program at its 20th edition running from November 24 to December 2. They ...

Few films at this year’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival will play with so many ideas, or are steeped with so many strands of modern culture, than “Emergency Exit,” the third fiction feature as a ...

Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美 Kawase Naomi, born May 30, 1969) is a Japanese film director. She graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. Many of her works have been documentaries, including Embracing, about her ...

Krieps plays a French heart transplants expert in Japan, “where organ donation remains taboo,” opposite Kanichiro as her partner who vanishes in the Locarno competition film. By Georg Szalai Global ...

Organ donation may be a miracle of modern medicine, though in Japan, it remains a divisive practice, in conflict with certain cultural and religious views on the limits of mortality and the body. For ...