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Steve Aoki In the documentary “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” viewers are thrust into the world of Steve Aoki, the Grammy-nominated...

Fifth-generation sake maker Kosuke Kuji at his brewery. (© 2015 Wagamama Media LLC) Sundance Selects presents “Kampai! For the Love of...

Kenny Yamada’s “Snow White” poster ANAHEIM — Artist Kenny Yamada has been accepted into the Disney Gallery. This recognition means that...

On Aug. 10 at Universal Studios, Alpha Takahashi, who voices Aiko in “Kubo and the Two Strings,” visited with Laika CFO Bradley Wald and...

The Japan Foundation Los Angeles, 5700 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 100 in Los Angeles, presents “Japanema,” high-quality Japanese film...

Karen Fukuhara as Katana in “Suicide Squad.” Karen Fukuhara makes her feature film debut as Katana in “Suicide Squad,” released by Warner...

The Hollywood trades and websites carried a news report that caught my eye: TV show producer Steven Bochco is working on a reboot of a...

Derek Mio as Zip in “Day of Independence.” GARDENA — Playwright Tim Toyama will show “Day of Independence,” a 26-minute film adapted in...

“Mele Murals” (melemurals.com) is an hour-long documentary on the transformative power of modern graffiti art and ancient Hawaiian...

A few weeks into their stay on “Big Brother” (the CBS summer reality show where 16 hopefuls live in a house with cameras and mics...

George Takei as Capt. Hikaru Sulu in “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (1991). He played the character in the original 1960s TV...

Seeing is not quite believing for Starship Enterprise crewmembers – from left, Sulu (John Cho), Chekov (Anton Yelchin), Dr. McCoy (Karl...

The Japanese American National Museum, 100 N. Central Ave. in Little Tokyo, will screen the documentary “Sleeping on Potatoes: A Lumpy...

When word leaked last week that Lt. Hikaru Sulu — now played by John Cho in the rebooted “Star Trek” movies — would be gay, I thought...

The Japan Foundation Los Angeles, 5700 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, presents Japanese film screenings every second and fourth Wednesday...

(Published July 7, 2016) A week ago today, The Los Angeles Times’ front page had a big story about the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

John Cho as Sulu in “Star Trek Beyond.” Actor John Cho has announced that Hikaru Sulu, his character in the upcoming “Star Trek” movie,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, responding to criticism that its membership lacks diversity, announced June 29 that it...

In Hirokazu Kore-eda’s new film, three sisters get to know their teenage half-sister. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Our Little Sister” is now...

Kellye Nakahara Wallett and Jeff Maxwell PASADENA — Actors Kellye Nakahara Wallett and Jeff Maxwell will share stories of their time on...