Growing overseas appetites make Japanese anime an export business – data shows a consumption tilt that is attracting big company investments.  

In April 2026, Vietnam’s CJ CGV releases “Mr Hero”, a family comedy drama directed by Vo Thach Thao (“Cây Táo Nở Hoa”) starring Thai Hoa (“Hijack 78”), aka Vietnam’s ‘king of comedy’.

Left-Handed Girl – Taiwan’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature Film  –  is a turning point for Taipei-born New York-based filmmaker, Shih-Ching Tsou.   

Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang serves amusing confusion in his new film Morte Cucina... and dishes dirt in Tokyo.   

Serial entrepreneur Fujimura Tetsu argues that the width and depth of Japanese IP resources make the country an entertainment industry leader.  

The value of Thailand’s content production sector will continue to drop, reaching US$584 million in 2030 from US$916 million in 2019, MPA says. But there are other things to be optimistic about...