In this article, Romano Tucci looks at the birth and rise in popularity of city pop, a genre and audio-aesthetic that grew out of 1970s Japan, and shares with readers a few unmissable tracks to add to any city pop playlist.

Remake after remake concerning the role played by China’s northwestern guerrilla fighters during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45) show a cinematic tradition that is still going strong in the 70 years since its inception: in this article, Staff Writer Bingbing Shi reviews Railway Heroes (2021), a remake of Zhao Ming’s 1956 classic, Railway Guerrilla, as well as the evolution of the Chinese ‘resistance genre’ as a whole.

Staff Writer Hannah Kang Walter reimagines how we should define Studio Ghibli films in terms of their so-called ‘environmentalism’, reflecting on Hayao Miyazaki’s self-ascribed status as a ‘lover of nature’ rather than a staunch environmentalist.