Yamada's latest work Tokyo Taxi, based on the French film Driving Madeleine, has been selected as the TIFF Centerpiece film.

Poland's Aleksandra Miroslaw has broken her own speed climbing world record multiple times since the last Olympics. (Usa Today Sports, USA TODAY Sports) The second iteration of Olympic sport climbing ...

Sayuri Yoshinaga brings quiet strength to the biopic about the first woman to summit Mount Everest — even when the film ...

Junji Sakamoto’s Climbing for Life has been set as the opening night film for the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival. Fittingly, Tabei is played by beloved Japanese actress Sayuri Yoshinaga, the ...

For those who have not yet seen the sport of speed climbing, the concept is fairly simple. Imagine Spider-Man scrambling, blurry fast, up the side of a four-story building. Now picture another ...

The Tokyo International Film Festival has revealed that legendary Japanese actor Yoshinaga Sayuri will be honored with the ...

Mount Takao in suburban Tokyo draws throngs of visitors during the autumn hiking season. But not many may know that the ...

Austria Climbing and Art Roc joined forces to celebrate climbing’s inclusion at the on the programme for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo by opening a wall in Rio de Janeiro's Sul shopping mall. The ...

Bluestone Press recently completed translation rights negotiations with Japan Uni Agency, on behalf of Fusosha publishing firm. Fusosha purchased rights for the pulp novel "Social Climbing," one of ...

Junji Sakamoto's Climbing for Life has been set as the opening night film for the 38th Tokyo International Film Festival. Climbing for Life will have its world premiere on Oct. 27. The epic biopic ...