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Takashi Murakami x MLB Tokyo Series Collab: Release Date, Pricing

Takashi Murakami x MLB Tokyo Series Collab: Release Date, Pricing

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. Florals? For spring…training season? Fresh off the return of his Louis Vuitton collab, Takashi Murakami is bringing his playful blooms to the baseball field ahead of the 2025 Major League Baseball Tokyo Series. Launching March 7 at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET on Fanatics.com, MLB.com and Complex.com, the Murakami x MLB collaboration sees the Japanese artist’s charming cherry blossoms, happy flowers and charming characters smiling all over apparel and accessories for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs. Pricing ranges from $40 for stadium-ready clear tote bags and $55 for New Era 49Fifty hats, to $250 for Nike jerseys and $400 for Victus bats. There are also hoodies, T-shirts, Rawlings baseballs and gloves and a Complex-exclusive set of Topps trading cards ($120). As for the collab’s roster, find gear for L.A. players Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman alongside New York team members Shota Imanaga, Seiya Suzuki and Dansby …

Freak City collaborates with Tokyo rap duo Yurufuwa Gang

Freak City collaborates with Tokyo rap duo Yurufuwa Gang

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In late October, a beloved L.A. duo, Valerie Akiko Campbell and Justin Romero of Freak City, met with another beloved duo in Tokyo, Nene and Ryugo Ishida of the Yurufuwa Gang. Freak City is a cult fashion brand and the Yurufuwa Gang is a rap duo, but in the words of Campbell and Romero, “[we] speak the same language when it comes to fashion and art” — all four artists got their start in underground subcultures. “We share similar triumphs and struggles — from working with our partners and love being the foundation of it all.” They add, laughing: “We also both believe in aliens.” Ishida describes coming together with Nene as nothing short of “miraculous.” The two met at a nightclub eight years ago and have since produced five albums together. “It’s everything together. Job together, life together,” says Nene, though they’ve recently started to pursue solo work again. Nene is on tour this year with a new album, “Gekiatsu,” and Ishida will go on tour next year. Nene and Ryugo Ishida of the …

Tadanobu Asano Honored With THR’s Trailblazer Award at Tokyo Gala

Tadanobu Asano Honored With THR’s Trailblazer Award at Tokyo Gala

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Ramping up the glitz and glamour from last year’s launch shindig, The Hollywood Reporter Japan turned on the style once more for its Trailblazer Award Gala Party, held Wednesday night at The Peninsula Hotel in Tokyo’s Ginza district. Held during the Tokyo International Film Festival, this year’s THR Japan gala event was an even hotter ticket than in 2023, with a veritable who’s who of Japan’s film industry, as well as sprinkling of sports legends and local celebs, who all graced the red carpet to join the celebrations to honor Shogun star Tadanobu Asano, the first Japanese recipient of THR’s Trailblazer Award. The Trailblazer Award is given to artists whose work and careers illuminate stories and characters who have been traditionally marginalized in Hollywood. Since his debut on Japanese television as a 16-year-old, Asano’s career has taken him from Hirokazu Koreeda’s Maborosi to Takashi Miike’s notorious Ichi the Killer, through the Marvel universe and most recently in FX’s all-conquering Shogun, which made history at the 2024 Emmys by winning the most awards by any show …

Tokyo International Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup

Tokyo International Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup

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The Tokyo International Film Festival revealed its full 2024 lineup on Wednesday, including its main competition program and the Asian Future section for emerging regional filmmakers, as well as the all-new Women’s Empowerment section, which highlights nine films directed by women or involving female-focussed stories.  Tokyo’s 15-title main competition reveals a preference for securing world premieres over previously shown titles by established festival names. There are eight world premieres in the section — including Big World and My Friend An Delie by China’s Yang Lina and Dong Zijian, respectively; Papa from Hong Kong’s Philip Yung; The Englishman’s Papers from Portugal’s Sergio Graciano; and three Japanese features, among others (see full lineup below). Additional highlights include the international premiere of Midi Z’s The Unseen Sister and Huang Xi’s recent Toronto Film Festival entry Daughter’s Daughter, starring Sylvia Chang.  As previously announced, the competition titles will be assessed by a jury led by Hong Kong actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai. The other jurors include Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To, Italian actress Chiara Mastroianni, Hungarian filmmaker Enyedi Ildikó, and Japanese actress Ai Hashimoto. All films in the Asia Future Section …

Typhoon Ampil approaches Tokyo, holiday traffic snarled

Typhoon Ampil approaches Tokyo, holiday traffic snarled

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TOKYO: Typhoon Ampil bore down on Tokyo on Thursday (Aug 15), prompting airlines to cancel hundreds of flights and railways to suspend part of their operations in the peak summer travel season. The typhoon, categorised as “strong” by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), was about 690 km off Japan’s Pacific coast at 9am (8am, Singapore time), heading towards Tokyo and surrounding regions. The agency has two higher categories – “very strong” and “violent”. Ampil was blowing winds of 35m per second, with a maximum gust of 50m per second, according to the JMA. “With this typhoon approaching, we urge the public to be highly vigilant against storms, high waves and heavy rains,” a JMA official told a news conference. Japan Airlines said it planned to cancel 191 domestic and 26 international flights, many of them leaving or arriving at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, on Friday. Another major airline, ANA, announced it would cancel 280 domestic flights that were originally slated for Friday, affecting more than 60,000 passengers. Central Japan Railway said it would cancel all the …

Redfall and Ghostwire: Tokyo studios shut down by another round of Microsoft layoffs

Redfall and Ghostwire: Tokyo studios shut down by another round of Microsoft layoffs

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Arkane Austin, makers of 2023’s Redfall, and Tango Gameworks, developers of The Evil Within and 2022’s Ghostwire: Tokyo, are shut down. The two studios, subsidiaries of Microsoft-owned Bethesda Softworks, were shuttered on Tuesday along with two others according to an email sent by Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game Studios. The closure means Redfall’s post launch support, including any DLC expansions, are now off the board although Arkane Studios itself, headquarted in Lyon, France, will still hang on. But the ambitious, supernatural shooter that Arkane Austin launched in May 2023 is officially done, and will not be be receiving any post-launch support, much less the two DLC characters that Xbox had promised at the time of released. IGN confirmed Arkane Austin’s closure in an email from Booty. “Redfall’s previous update will be its last as we end all development on the game,” it said. “The game and its servers will remain online for players to enjoy and we will provide make-good offers to players who purchased the Hero DLC.” Why did Microsoft shut down …

Naoya Inoue suffers first knockdown of his career – then delivers knockout victory

Naoya Inoue suffers first knockdown of his career – then delivers knockout victory

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Naoya Inoue, the undisputed world super-bantamweight champion, recovered from the first knockdown of his professional career to stop Luis Nery in devastating fashion. The 31-year-old Japanese, who has held world titles at four different weights and two undisputed, went down in the first round, but picked himself up to secure a sixth-round victory after putting his Mexican opponent down for the third time with a brutal right hand. Nery stunned both the champion and a 55,000 sell-out crowd at the Tokyo Dome in Japan – where Buster Douglas shocked Mike Tyson in 1990 – when barely two minutes into the fight he floored Inoue with a swinging left hook. However, Nery had to pick himself up from the canvas in the second after the Japanese fighter caught him with a short left. Inoue scored heavily with the straight right in an impressive third-round display and began to showboat in the fourth as a frustrated Nery repeatedly missed the target with his big punches and was peppered with his opponent’s jab and body shots. The 29-year-old’s work …

Paris Games ‘walk in the park’ after Tokyo, Ingebrigtsen says

Paris Games ‘walk in the park’ after Tokyo, Ingebrigtsen says

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen believes his 1500 metres Olympic title defence will be a breeze as long as he avoids illness and injury on the road to Paris, the Norwegian said on Wednesday. The 23-year-old won gold at the COVID-delayed Tokyo Games in astonishing fashion, cruising past Kenyan Timothy Cheruiyot on the final lap to break the tape in an Olympic record time of 3:28.32. “Obviously the Olympic Games in Tokyo was very different, I would imagine, to the upcoming Games in Paris, with no spectators, a lot of testing and rules with COVID,” Ingebrigtsen told European Athletics’ “Ignite” podcast. “If I don’t get injured and I don’t get sick, I think it’s going to be a walk in the park (in Paris).” He picked up gold in the 5000 metres at the 2022 World Championships in Eugene in the United States and again in Budapest a year later but had no such luck in the 1500 metres. Britons Josh Kerr and Jake Wightman pushed Ingebrigtsen to the second spot on the podium in the metric mile …

Dozens of Chinese swimmers failed doping tests ahead of Tokyo Olympics

Dozens of Chinese swimmers failed doping tests ahead of Tokyo Olympics

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Twenty-three Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug before the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 the World Anti-Doping Agency confirmed Saturday, defending the decision to let them compete based on China’s findings they had ingested it unknowingly. Issued on: 20/04/2024 – 20:11Modified: 20/04/2024 – 21:42 4 min The New York Times and German broadcaster ARD reported Saturday that the athletes included nearly half of the swimming team that China sent to Japan, with several going on to win medals, including gold. Many are expected to be in contention again at the Paris Olympics this summer. The Times reported that they tested positive for a prescription heart drug, trimetazidine (TMZ) — which can enhance performance — at a domestic meet in late 2020 and the first days of 2021. But it was determined by Chinese anti-doping authorities that they ingested the substance unwittingly from tainted food and no action against them was warranted. The newspaper cited a review of confidential documents and emails, including a report compiled by the Chinese anti-doping agency and submitted to its …