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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his latest Netflix show, Asura, Kore-eda balances this trademark patient storytelling, with ambitious and melodramatic turns. Framing childhood: Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s ...

Acclaimed Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda, the mastermind behind the Oscar-nominated and Palme d'Or-winning Shoplifters, brings us Asura, a gripping drama that follows four sisters in 1979 ...

Netflix aficionados are in for a treat with the platform's latest addition, which has been met with critical acclaim despite its limited coverage. It may not be topping the charts this week, but ...

Asura is a family drama about four sisters who discover that their father is having an affair, and the Netflix series is about to become your new Netflix obsession. Asura started life as a novel ...

Netflix’s ‘Asura’ (originally titled ‘Asura no Gotoku’) is a family drama series that follows the story of four sisters — Tsunako, Makiko, Takiko, and Sakiko — whose lives take an unexpected turn when ...

Asura allows for that breathing room. It says to the audience, here are some interesting women, spend some time with them and see what happens, you might feel something, you might learn something, you ...

Netflix’s Asura is a new Japanese limited series about a family of four grown daughters who discover that their father has cheated on their mother. For a decade, he has been raising a young son ...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Asura’ on Netflix, A Drama About Four Grown Women Who Discover Their Father’s Secret Affair ...

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