With Ryusuke Hamaguchi's 'Drive My Car' a frontrunner for best international feature film, Japan could win its second Academy Award in that category, formerly known as best foreign-language film. By ...

When “Departures” was announced as the foreign-language Oscar winner in February, it was the first time a film from Japan had won the award in more than 50 years. Overtaking what were widely ...

Masahiro Motoki, left, watches as Tsutomu Yamazaki prepares a body for a coffin in the Oscar-winning Japanese film 'Departures.' Daigo Kobayashi sees dead people. Not in the creepy, M. Night Shyamalan ...

“Departures,” the final film in the Davis Senior Center’s Film and Spirituality Series, will be screened at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Aug. 5. In this 2008 Japanese film, a newly unemployed cellist takes a ...

"Departures," a film by Japanese director Yojiro Takita, is the only Asian-made movie from 2008 to be nominated as the best foreign-language film by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In her 1998 essay What’s a Good Gay Film?, film critic B. Ruby Rich considered what queer audiences were looking for. She wrote ...