Tokyo Disneyland’s Beauty and the Beast Area to Open After Delay

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has signed an overall deal with writer and producer Michael Green.The first project under that deal will be the animated series “Blue Eye Samurai,” which has been ordered to series at the streamer. Geeen co-created the series along with Amber Noizumi.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNBC Sports and Twitter are hoping for Olympic-size audience lifts through their extended content pact to cover both the postponed Tokyo Olympics set for summer 2021 and the Beijing Olympic Winter Games in February 2022.Most elements of the extended pact are the same as in the original agreement, announced last year for Tokyo 2020 (before the games were delayed by COVID-19).

spilling the tea in her much-anticipated memoir ““The Meaning of Mariah Carey,” released Tuesday, the pop superstar opens the vault for “The Rarities,” a collection of rare and previously unreleased tracks such as the Lauryn Hill joint “Save the Day.”The album, out Friday, also comes with a bonus concert set, “Live at the Tokyo Dome,” from Carey’s first Japan show in 1996.Here are six highlights that will keep you obsessed with Mimi.“Here We Go Around Again” Before she hit No.

Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa is a directorial polyglot, no doubt about it, but he’s more fluent in some cinematic languages than others.

Often, the best decisions aren’t made late at night after a long session of drinking in a Japanese bar. Unfortunately for Alexandra Daddario’s character in “Lost Girls & Love Hotels,” most of her nights end up in a Japanese bar after many, many drinks.

Maggie Lee Chief Asia Film Critic“Prison is the only place that won’t kick you out no matter how badly you behave,” remarks the ex-con protagonist, who gets no second chances in Japanese society. Directed with piercing insight, emotional depth and true compassion by Miwa Nishikawa, “Under the Open Skies” tells a heartbreaking tale of a pariah whose soul is crushed by systemic discrimination and a world of hypocritical conformity.

Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa nabbed another career honor Sunday, winning the Venice Film Festival's best director award for Wife of a Spy, the first period drama of his prolific filmography. Set in 1940 Kobe, Japan, the film stars Issey Takahashi (Kill Bill, Shin Godzilla) as a debonair silk merchant whose cosmopolitan world view is on a collision course with Japan's advancing militarism and stifling social conformity.

boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the US Open.The Japanese tennis star — who is currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world — has worn a mask honoring Black victims of police brutality and racial injustice at each of her US Open showings at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York.At Saturday's finals match against Victoria Azarenka of Belarus,

boycotting a previous tournament match to show her support for the victims of police violence, Naomi Osaka is taking more steps to raise awareness during the US Open.The Japanese tennis star — who is currently the highest-paid female athlete in the world — has worn a mask honoring Black victims of police brutality and racial injustice at each of her US Open showings.On Thursday, Osaka honored Philando Castile by wearing his name on her sixth mask for her match at the USTA Billie Jean King

The Tokyo International Film Festival unveiled on Thursday the opening and closing films for its upcoming 33rd annual edition. The event, Japan's largest cinema occasion, will kick off on Oct.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefNishikawa Miwa, the woman filmmaker who is a protégé of Japan’s celebrated “Shoplifters” director Kore-eda Hirokazu, may be about to step out from his shadow. Her social drama “Under the Open Sky” is set for premiere and a prominent position at the Toronto Intl.