For many they were baseball players, but for filmmaker Takeshi Kitano it was the local yakuza who were simply much cooler. The darker side of a person's character is far more intriguing for Kitano, ...

A once-beloved children’s toy in Vietnam, the Baby Three doll, has seen a dramatic drop in sales after being accused of featuring China’s controversial nine-dash line. Amid nationalistic outrage, ...

The protagonist of this story is hitman Nezumi, played by the director Kitano Takeshi. He is known for faultlessly taking out targets on the instruction of someone known only as M, but the police ...

HANOI — Seething international tensions over the South China Sea have struck an unlikely victim in Vietnam: popular children’s dolls pulled from shops over a facial mark supposedly resembling ...

Disney has teamed up with Mattel on two new “Disney Collector” edition dolls. First unveiled at the New York Toy Fair, the limited-edition release features 12-inch dolls of Snow White and the ...

So, Bob decided to do something about it. In the fall of 2021, he ordered himself a sex doll. Bob is one of a number of men who have decided to purchase a lifelike silicone doll, fulfilling needs ...

A doll is a gorgeous, cute character friend to a little girl. Her name is so beautiful that it describes everything about her. She's feminine, she's pretty, and she's everything a little girl wants of ...

As executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Takeshi Numoto is responsible for leading worldwide marketing, inclusive of product marketing, brand, advertising, market research, events and ...

Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says he wanted his new film “Kubi” to show the world of samurai in ways that mainstream movies have rarely done before, by portraying the homosexual ...

Seibu Prince Hotels Worldwide Inc. has announced that it will take over operations of the Kitano Hotel New York from spring 2023 and will change its name. Under the new management, the Kitano ...