Middle-aged, wearing a leopard print black and yellow jacket, a Japanese man, however, is likely to become the next Park Jae-sang, songwriter and singer of Gangnam Style, with his song Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP).
"Xuan Zang" has been submitted for the Best Foreign Language Film Award Category at the 89th Academy Awards. China's State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT) made the announcement.
Feng Xiaogang's new directorial movie I'm Not Madame Bovary celebrated its triumph in two international festivals in Beijing.
Part of the ongoing Beijing Design Week, an international design and trade expo closes today, having attracted visitors with a variety of fashion, designs and handicrafts on show.
This year's Tokyo International Film Festival is set to take place in less than a month, and two Chinese-language films are in the final competition for the top Tokyo Grand Prix.
Domestic fantasy film A Chinese Odyssey: Part III continued to dominate the Chinese box office in the week ending September 25, earning 88 million yuan ($13.2 million), China Film News reported Thursday.
China's lackluster movie market shows its pressing need for quality tales, say some insiders at a recent script-trade event held in Ningbo, Zhejiang province.
With 676 films, this cinematic event is doing an admirable job to reinvigorate cultural exchanges among countries along the old network of trade routes and beyond.
A touring festival brings Hong Kong gangster films to six cities on the mainland, especially for those who have only watched them on VCR, Xu Fan reports.
A preview of the new movie Operation Mekong, which is based on a real massacre, was shown to nearly 1,000 Chinese police officers on Sept 25 in Beijing.
Chinese swimmer-turned-Internet star Fu Yuanhui chewed up uncooked snake and faced other challenges in Bear Grylls' outdoor-adventure show Running Wild.
Award-winning scriptwriter Lan Xiaolong is known for his military TV series.