January should be a great month for television, as brutal cold makes captive, couch-potato audiences of us all. Sadly, in ...

The night’s host, Makiko (Machiko Ono), is quietly devastated, as she fears her own husband, Takao (Masahiro Motoki), will follow the same path. The youngest, Sakiko (Suzu Hirose), is blasé ...

Makiko is a housewife, and feels traumatised in her own way because she fears her husband, Takao (Masahiro Motoki), might do the same. Later, just because of her dad, she starts to suspect him and ...

Or we would have, had Netflix done anything to notify us of its existence. Asura, directed by celebrated Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, is a compassionate yet incisive dissection of family, ...

If you have had the unfortunate experience of discovering that your father is cheating on your mother, you would know how deeply upsetting and confusing it can be. Dealing with your feelings of ...