"Am I pretty?" Kani Releasing has debuted an official US trailer for a Japanese indie film titled Desert of Namibia, the second feature made by young Japanese filmmaker Yoko Yamanaka. This first ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The film follows mercurial 21-year-old Kana (Yuumi Kawai), a hair-removal ...

Yamanaka speaks with IndieWire about her latest feature and shepherding the next era in Japanese cinema. Kana (Yuumi Kawai) is a listless young woman in her early twenties living in Tokyo. Working as ...

Exclusive: Yamanaka became the youngest female director to win the International Federation of Film Critics Prize at Cannes 2024 with the drama. Japanese writer/director Yôko Yamanaka is continuing ...

EXCLUSIVE: Kani Releasing has acquired North American rights to Yoko Yamanaka’s Desert Of Namibia from Japan’s Happinet Phantom Studios Corp. The youth drama, starring popular newcomer Yuumi Kawai ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kana (Yuumi Kawai) is a listless young woman in her early twenties living in Tokyo. Working as a beautician, drifting between men, ...