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Hollywood is taking a crack at adapting another story from Japan, but this time they’re going straight to the source with an adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui’s novel Paprika. The novel is widely known in the anime world for the acclaimed feature film adaptation by Satoshi …Read more »
Fifteen years ago, visionary directory Satoshi Kon released his fourth and final film. Based on the novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, Paprika has become a modern classic, and inspired filmmakers around the world. Here in 2021, we’re still very much in love with it. Honestly, we don’t …Read more »
Anime on Blu-ray is fresh enough for me to extol its virtues without feeling like a relic from the past that's just discovered Pop Rocks. Perhaps growing too comfortable with DVDs, the industry now finds itself facing high definition formats that defy lazy transfers, and …Read more »
[Excerpt from the current issue of Otaku USA magazine, on sale now!] A festival parade of marching appliances. Evil, laughing, building-sized dolls. Movies come to life, a 50-foot woman, a butterfly collection with a centerpiece human butterfly. If surrealist tea parties are your bag, baby, …Read more »
Iconic Events Releasing has revealed the upcoming movies and schedules for AX Cinema Nights. Five anime movies are involved, and more than 300 theaters across America are taking part. First up is Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue. You can watch it subbed September 6, or dubbed …Read more »
It’s been 26 years since Satoshi Kon’s masterpiece anime film Perfect Blue premiered at Canada’s Fantasia Film Festival in 1997. Kon would go on to direct 2002’s Millennium Actress, 2003’s Tokyo Godfathers, 2004’s Paranoia Agents series and 2006’s Paprika at MADHOUSE before his untimely passing …Read more »
Considering how virtually nonexistent promotion was for the latest film from Hayao Miyazaki—How Do You Live?, known in the west now as The Boy and the Heron—it’s nice to get a little slice from the recently released feature. We’ll have to wait until later this …Read more »
Looking for a great roundup of Japanese films, animated and otherwise? Get thee to Toronto. From May 10 to June 27, the TIFF Bell Lightbox will be showing a series they’re calling POP Japan, featuring anime faves like Spirited Away and Akira, plus madcap live-action …Read more »
It’s that time of year when we start unearthing all our favorite horror series. And we’re still waiting on that Nightmare on Elm Street reboot we were promised. We can’t wait to see what Freddy Krueger gets up to next. But for now, we’re going to …Read more »
Get ready for a new “culture shock comedy,” because that’s what the Chibiham, Juicy & Me anime film has been promoted as ahead of its premiere in Japan. The feature follows the exploits of an American tourist with a larger than life personality, and it’s …Read more »
After all these years, it’s really happening: comic classic The Sandman by Neil Gaiman is getting adapted for screen. We’ve just seen the latest trailer, and we can’t wait for August 5 to get here. While we dream of the incoming series, we’re pre-gaming with some …Read more »
Anime film The Deer King, which came out in Japan earlier this year, is headed to theaters in the US in July. The film will hit screens only July 13 and 14 with “fan preview” events before a wide(r) release July 15. The fan preview …Read more »
The Deer King anime film was previously planned for a September 10 release, but the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic forced a delay. Now the new date has officially been set, and the feature is scheduled to make its theatrical debut in Japan on February 4, 2022. …Read more »
New trailers are here for The Deer King anime film, which is coming to Japan on September 10, followed by an international release in the UK and French-speaking Europe through Anime Limited and in the US through GKIDS. The new previews introduce the theme song, …Read more »
If you’re new to the works of Satoshi Kon, they can seem pretty daunting. The late director was known for his visionary works — many of which were reality-bending and surreal. But it’s beautiful, as a new documentary on his work will show. Consider these …Read more »
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