My Sunshine: Last News

Catherine Bray Some films prioritize a strident political cause, others set out to terrify or thrill. This touching and simple story from Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Okuyama, premiering in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, is a gentler affair, with modest ambitions that it realizes effectively. Set on a small Japanese island, the film’s slight but sweet narrative follows a quartet of characters — young hockey player Takuya (Keitatsu Koshiyama), proficient skater Sakura (Kiara Nakanishi), figure-skating tutor Arakawa (Sōsuke Ikematsu) and his boyfriend (Ryûya Wakaba) — as they navigate subtly shifting interpersonal dynamics while a cold but beautiful winter waxes and wanes around them.

Pingyao International Film Festival (PYIFF) has announced the line-up for its eighth edition, including its Crouching Tigers and Hidden Dragons sections, and opening film A River Without Tears. 

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Asian-produced teen and coming-of-age films will be the focus of a special section at this year’s Busan International Film Festival which is heading for its 29 edition in October. With 10 titles, the section comprises a mix of notable recent productions, such as Malaysian body horror and self-discovery title “Tiger Stripes,” and a pair of world premieres.

Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent A 22-year-old prodigy when he won the New Directors Award at San Sebastian in 2018 for his student film “Jesus,” Okuyama Hiroshi took something of a roundabout route to his second feature, “My Sunshine,” which screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard lineup. Okuyama’s coming-of-age drama about two tween ice skaters — a boy and girl who study under the same coach in a northern provincial town — originated from his own seven years in the sport. “I learned skating from the age of 5 to 12 — I wanted to become a professional,” says Okuyama.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief The Taipei Film Festival has set “A Journey in Spring” as the Taiwan flagbearer in its international competition section. Directed by Peng Tzu-hui and Wang Ping-wen, the film was shot on Super 16 mm film stock and stars King Jieh-wen and Yang Kuei-mei.

In Japan the very first few snowflakes begin to fall signaling the change of seasons. Another clue is we see young Takuya (Keitatsu Koshiyama) and his baseball-playing buddies taking those final swings at bat and moving on to ice hockey. That is basically how this quiet and lilting charmer of a coming-of-age story is introduced, and it sets the table perfectly for what is to follow.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic You won’t even have to already love Wilco to find joy in the experience of reading Jeff Tweedy’s new book, “World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music” — although nothing about coming in as a fan will exactly hurt. His tales about how dozens of pieces of (mostly) pop and rock music have hit him in a personal way over the decades is full of anecdotal pleasures that get at more universal truths about how we’re shaped by art… or, alternately, just illustrate a funny story Tweedy neglected to include in his previous books, the music memoir “Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back)” and the instructional “How to Write One Song.” The book includes his thoughts on youthful favorites he remains unabashed about into his adulthood, like “Smoke on the Water,” “Takin’ Care of Business” and “My Sharona,” adult fare that rewarded more mature readings, like Randy Newman’s “In Germany Before the War,” and songs as disparate as the Replacements’ “God Damn Job,” Wings’ “Mull of Kintyre,” Rosalia’s “Bizcochito” and “You Are My Sunshine.” Variety caught up with Tweedy on the road between stops on Wilco’s fall tour supporting the band’s recent “Cousin” album, following a solo tour in the summer of 2023.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief “Future Laobans,” a project directed by Maung Sun and produced by Maung Sun and Ma Aeint, claimed the Busan Prize, the top award at the Asian Project Market, on Tuesday. The awards were made at an event held at the Paradise Hotel in Busan’s Haeundae district at the end of three days of quick-fire meetings between producers and directors and an array of potential co-producers, financiers and distributors. Organizers said that they put together 705 such one-on-one meetings. The CJ ENM Award went to Indonesia’ “Gaspar,” to be directed by Yosep Anggi Noen and produced by Yulia Evina Bhara and Cristian Imanueli.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Korean sales firm, Finecut is using the Asian Contents & Film Market on the sidelines of the Busan International Film Festival to launch comic action film “Brave Citizen.” The film, now in post-production, is an adaptation of a webtoon which ranked first in popularity when it was serialized on the platform Comico. It was later serialized on another Korean platform Naver Webtoon and recorded 2.27 million views on its Line Webtoon platform in Taiwan. It tells the tale of female former boxing champion who has become a substitute high school teacher. Having witnessed intolerable violence, she dons a mask and throws her first punch for justice.

Nursery children turned trash into treasure and treated their friends at an older adult's lunch club.

Carol Vorderman, 60, has revealed the reason behind her ound singing voice, which was causing fans to worry.Taking to her Instagram stories, the TV legend that she has laryngitis, which was behind the cause of her croaky speech and raspy vocals.Despite revealing that she had been diagnosed with the inflammatory throat condition, the best-selling author proved that she had not lost her sense of humour as she gave her fans an update.The presenter said: "OMG [oh my god] so a few days ago with laryngitis (throat thing not the name of a friend with bad parents)."I did my best impression of Marge Simpson singing You Are My Sunshine."The TV legend then re-shared a clip of her vocal attempts with her followers, to remind them of her likeness to the

Carol Vorderman, 60, has sparked concern amongst her Twitter followers as she admitted her singing voice now sounds like Marge Simpson due to a sore throat.The Countdown legend, who appeared on Good Morning Britain today to pay tribute to Captain Sir Tom Moore following the sad news of his death, also caught the attention of viewers who noticed her croaky speech.Carol shared a clip showcasing her poorly vocals as she struggled to sing You Are My Sunshine by Johnny Cash.Seeing the funny side of the situation, she penned: “Me with a sore throat doing Marge @TheSimpsons singing YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE.”She added in another post: “So one of the benefits of losing my voice is.......“I do a b****y brilliant Marge Simpson impression….”Many fans took

 Jennifer Lopez  and  Alex Rodriguez ’s wedding might feature a special performance by J.Lo’s daughter Emme. The singer’s little girl, whom she shares with her ex  Marc Anthony , revealed to  E! News  the song she is considering singing at her mom and A-Rod’s nuptials.

 Eva Longoria ’s talents may appear boundless, but according to her she’s “not a singer.” Well, not publicly. Although we may not see her starring in a musical anytime soon, the 45-year-old mom loves to sing to her two-year-old son  Santiago Enrique Bastón .

Daddy-daughter dancing time! Enrique Iglesias got his groove on with his and Anna Kournikova’s 2-month-old daughter, Mary.

The devastated parents of a 12-year-old boy who died after going to bed thirsty with a sore tummy have paid tribute to their 'fun-loving' son.