Perhaps because of the generational nature of the Emperor-era system, Japanese literature has long had a fascination with endings and beginnings, and Nakajima's Naoki Prize-winning novel, "The Little ...

Adapting but not enlivening Kyoko Nakajima’s novel, Nipponese journeyman Yoji Yamada cranks out his umpteenth bourgeois family drama with “The Little House,” driven by an adulterous affair so discreet ...

McInerney concludes her trilogy about Irish lives with an explosive evaluation of class, gender, parenthood and guilt. When exiled drug-dealer turned musician Ryan returns home to record an album, he ...

Veteran Japanese director Yoji Yamada told the Berlin film festival on Friday he made his new 1940s drama “The Little House” for a generation of compatriots who seem oblivious to the horrors of war.

Gathering together 10 of the Japanese author’s translated short stories, this accessible collection meditates on memory and its loss. A widower joins a cookery class and rediscovers his late wife ...

Fumio Obata and Jocelyne Allen discuss graphic art and manga. And novelists Kyoko Nakajima and Yuya Sato talk to presenter Christopher Harding. Show more Illustrator Fumio Obata and manga translator ...

At one point in 82-year-old director Yoji Yamada's 82nd film, a woman introduces her boyfriend to American author Virginia Lee Burton's classic The Little House. However, this old-fashioned drama is ...