I don’t know why there weren’t pronouncements from the hilltops when “Asura,” the new series from the great Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda (“Nobody Knows,” “Our Little Sister ...

There’s a new series on Netflix, Asura, that is impervious to such a succinct pitch, which may be why it seems so few people have seen it. The streaming giant, which has been known to take a ...