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Visitors play Pachinko, a Japanese form of legal gambling, at Dynam Japan Holdings Co.'s Pachinko parlour in Koga, north of Tokyo, April 7, 2014. 

Some loud, smoky pachinko parlors defy Japan’s shutdown

May 14, 2020Culture

The country has shut down schools and offices and parks — and yet, outside some pachinko joints, men stubbornly line up to get their fix.

The documentary, Machines, takes the audience into a textile millin Sachin, India. It is one of film critic Matt Holzman's picks for foreign documentaries to see this summer.

Four international documentaries to see before the summer ends

August 15, 2017Arts

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