Japan’s Nikkatsu studio is pitching “River” at the top of its TIFFCOM sales slate. The film – on which it shares rights with Third Window Films – is a time loop comedy from Yamaguchi Junta, director ...

Nikkatsu may not have Godzilla, but this 100-year-old Japanese studio has made everything from world-class masterpieces to erotica, all while nurturing some of the country’s biggest stars and ...

Five of Japan’s top directors — Sion Sono and Hideo Nakata among them — will make short features in the classic “Nikkatsu Roman Porno” format for theatrical release and TV broadcast, Nikkatsu has ...

Index Holdings has sold a 7.11% share in group company Nikkatsu to Amusement Media Entertainment Group (AMG). Nikkatsu is here at the EFM selling Takashi Miike's Yatterman which had its world premiere ...

Japanese studio Nikkatsu has acquired the buying and selling operations of Japan’s AMG Entertainment in a move designed to strengthen its own acquisitions activities. The deal also includes a library ...

The corporate history of the Japanese studio giant Nikkatsu is decidedly chequered with both extremes of the ethos of profit and loss, but its creative output holds a very special place in ...

TOKYO — Good things can come in small packages — especially if that package is five films in Nikkatsu‘s reboot of its famed Roman Porno series. At their peak in the 1970s and 1980s, these softcore ...

The promotional flyer says it all: “This is not a remake — it’s a return!” Four decades ago, struggling movie studio Nikkatsu shifted its focus from action and gangster films to a form of soft ...

What with your Ozus and your Kurosawas and your Mizoguchis, discovering Japanese cinema during the 60s could be a fairly dry affair. Back home in Tokyo, however, people were flocking to more ...

In Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s epic comic-book memoir A Drifting Life, the veteran artist describes what it was like to grow into adulthood in late-’50s/early-’60s ...