"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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The Southern Namib Desert is a region in Namibia that covers an area of approximately 81,000 square kilometers. It is part of the Namib Desert, which is one of the oldest deserts in the world and ...

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 ...

It rained on my first evening in Namibia, well before I was in a position to appreciate the auspicious beauty of such an event. My husband, Ryan, and I were with the photographer Michael Turek at ...

For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust ...

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 ...

“The trackers will tell us where to go, and we follow on foot,” says desert guide, Bons. “We want the rhinos to experience the least human disturbance. We don’t want them used to jeeps — you can ...

To paraphrase an old maxim about fat and skinny, there is a shorter movie within Yoko Yamanaka’s “Desert of Namibia” trying to get out. Not only shorter, but better: Ms. Yamanaka’s film about a ...

The majority of shipwrecks from the era of the Great Discoveries now lie at the bottom of the ocean abyss or in shallow bays.

The Namib desert of south-western Africa can be extremely hot - the surface temperature can be over 50°C. But a surprising number of around 200 beetle species live on its bare, inhospitable-looking ...