Tori Matsuzaka

Yoshifumi Kondo’s anime “Whisper of the Heart” became a critical and popular success following its release in 1995. Based on a manga by Aoi Hiiragi, the film grossed more than any other Japanese film that year. Now, nearly…

Japanese films about forbidden love go back decades, but the definition of “forbidden” has changed, if more so abroad than here. Hideo Jojo’s 2022 sex comedy “Love Nonetheless” would be a hard sell in Hollywood since its story of a…