"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 ...

The entire west coast of Namibia in Southern Africa is bounded by the Namib Desert, which means “vast place” in the Nama ...

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 ...

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, ...

One word for desert in Hindi, my first language, is marū, which has an etymological link to English words like mortal and mortality. The desert is an abode of death, yet I was about to discover a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hidden deep within Namibia’s vast wilderness, this exclusive safari camp offers a rare and unforgettable experience far from ...

As Namibia positions itself as a green hydrogen powerhouse, questions arise about its environmental impact, economic viability, and the benefit to local communities. A view of the Namib Desert, which ...

BLUFFTON — Growing up at the dawn of the space age, when Gemini and Apollo rocket launches held the world in rapt attention, Bluffton resident Bill Gwynne fell for the stars when he was a young boy. A ...

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 ...