In the period Japanese series Asura, Palme d’Or-winning Japanese film-maker Hirokazu Kore-eda (Shoplifters, 2018) has gathered a highly talented cast to highlight the complicated bonds between ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The quiet way Netflix has chosen to release Japanese-language mini-series Asura is both fitting and ...

Wanna become an undisputed Asura champion? That’s nice. Now, go stand at the end of the line and wait for your turn. Asura is a game full of wannabe fighters who claim to have what it takes to ...

On Hosianna Mantra, Popol Vuh helped invent them all. But Hosianna Mantra seemed to emerge from a different world altogether, a place where pondering wisdom, truth, and beauty were the real ...

Set in 1979 Tokyo, with Kore-eda writing and directing each of the seven episodes, Asura is centred on the touchstone of his storytelling: the ever-changing family unit. The most subtle of auteurs ...

Spiritual orator and motivational speaker Jaya Kishori has appealed to the youth to experience the Maha Kumbh at Sangam to "achieve peace, happiness and bliss". In an exclusive interview with NDTV ...

Fans are ‘begging’ people to watch the ‘masterful’ new series Asura after it arrived on Netflix earlier this month. The Japanese limited series is written and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda ...

The Mahabharat is one of the two major epics in Sanskrit of ancient India It contains over one lakh couplets and is thrice as long as the Bible However only a fraction of the narration actually deals ...