Some of the biggest Hollywood actors head to Japan to collect huge paychecks and star in some very fun, and sometimes often weird, commercials. Here's a list of just some of the stars that have popped up on Japanese TV over the years.

With major US studios punting this weekend, Japanese imports were the biggest things at the box office this weekend along with the Hunger Games prequel.

Toho, the company behind the creation of Godzilla, has announced a new film starring the King of Monsters set to release on November 3, 2023.

The Ghost of Tsushima video game already has heavy influences from classic Japanese samurai films, and director Chad Stahleski wants to carry that on in a unique way with the Ghost movie adaptation.

The famed filmmaker/actor known as Beat Takeshi experienced a run in with an angry fan.

The battle of the century is coming.

The Grudge franchise's first-ever drama series is coming to Netflix worldwide on July 3.

Yesterday, Crunchyroll unveiled their first-ever slate of original anime titles set to rollout throughout the year. Today, Netflix followed up. The streaming giant announced, in an official statement that follows below, "that it has partnered with six Japanese creators to develop original anime shows for fans around the world, as part of the company’s continued effort to build on its best-in-class anime originals with deep creative roots in Japan": The six creators CLAMP (Cardcaptor Sakura), Shin Kibayashi (The Kindaichi Case Files), Yasuo Ohtagaki (Mobile Suit Gundam: Thunderbolt), Otsuichi (Goth), Tow Ubukata (Mardock Scramble) and Mari Yamazaki (…

Remember their first showdown in Japan back in the day?

Netflix has some surprisingly great Japanese comedies and drama series available. We take the best of them and rank them for you.

A prefecture in Japan wants to limit game time for kids.

The original Ju-On: The Grudge is a Japanese horror classic. How does it differ from its American remake?

Japan's rich literary tradition serves as the launch point of many films. Here are some amazing examples of movies adapted from Japanese books.

2002’s The Ring by Gore Verbinski is a masterpiece of horror cinema that launched the trend for American reboots of foreign horror.

Fans are treated to a fascinating poster every time a new Star Wars film comes out, but the posters from Japan are different from the ones in the US.

Akira Kurosawa is the most celebrated director in Japanese cinema. While many of his works are masterpieces, not all of them maintain that excellence.

The iconic Japanese superhero is making a major leap to North America, with ULTRAMAN starring in a new series of Marvel Comics coming in 2020.

Takashi Miiki is a Japanese director known for violent and creative visuals. While some of his movies are great, Rotten Tomatoes also gave bad scores.

As a medium, animation feels uniquely universal, despite its specificities in depicting a singular force of imagination. And Netflix has given opportunities to tons of wide-ranging forms of animation, from the melancholies of Bojack Horseman to the silliness of The Boss Baby: Back in Business. Now, as reported by Deadline, Netflix has greenlit a new animated series from the Oscar-nominated Japanese studio Tonko House. The show: ONI. ONI, a hybrid stop-motion/CGI animation project created by former Pixar art director Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi (Toy Story 3, The Dam Keeper), follows Onari, the daughter of an ancient Japanese …

Producer Phil Lord teases Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2 may feature an appearance from the infamous Japanese Spider-Man.