Japanese cinema continues to captivate global audiences with its emotionally layered storytelling, and Baka’s Identity is the latest film drawing attention. The movie explores themes of self-discovery ...
Writer Judy Lev, a Cleveland transplant who lived in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood for 38 years, is putting the beloved locale on display with her new book, an ode to the charming cluster of streets ...
Colors, music, and the air of community pride filled the streets of this town as it officially opened the 22nd Baka Festival with a lively street showdown, marking the start of a week-long celebration ...
The movie Baka’s Identity depicts young men working in the black market moving inexorably toward more brutal criminality. It is based on Nishio Jun’s novel Orokamono no mibun (A Fool’s Identity), ...
The making of fake IDs has a venerable and even noble cinematic history, going back to Donald Pleasence’s document forger in “The Great Escape” (1963), who ruined his eyesight for the sake of his ...
A cafe in Toronto that's been a local staple for almost 13 years has officially closed its doors for good. It's only natural for restaurants in Toronto to be, more or less, transient. Some last for ...
Japanese thriller Baka’s Identity was inspired by a desire to “depict young people in poverty in modern Japan,” says producer Akira Morii. The film, directed by Koto Nagata, received its world ...
A pair of young swindlers and their mentor plot to escape their lives of petty crime; lives spent posing as women on social media platforms, finding lonely, vulnerable men and sweet-talking them into ...
In the past, in Cameroon, artisanal weaving of mats was naturally passed down from one generation to the next. But over time, these cultural practices began to fade, threatening the very identity of ...
In southeastern Cameroon, the Indigenous Baka people are helping protecting their forests with the Sapelli app. They spearheaded the design of this tool as part of a 2021 project launched in six ...
Japanese production company The Seven is making its theatrical debut with crime thriller “Baka’s Identity” (A Fool’s Identity), set to release in Japan on Oct. 24. The film reunites “Yu Yu Hakusho” ...
Baka Not Nice addressed Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,””weird case” lyric revealing he acted on Drake’s advice amid the backlash. The Toronto rapper, a longtime friend and collaborator of Drake, ...