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Over the last few years, the Tokyo International Film Festival has been devoting a lot of energy to anime: the festival has hosted auteurs like Hideaki Anno ( Evangelion ), Yoshiyuki Tomino ( Gundam ) and Mamoru Hosoda ( The Boy and the Beast ). …Read more »
A nice bit of news for Keiichi Hara ( Summer Days with Coo , Colorful ). The director’s latest effort, Miss Hokusai , has won the Jury Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Miss Hokusai , which was released in Japan in May, …Read more »
Hoorah! The trailer for Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai , the upcoming anime film based on the life of O-Ei Katsushika, daughter of the famed Japanese artist Hokusai, has been released. Miss Hokusai is being animated at Production I.G ( Ghost in the Shell ) and is …Read more »
“Congratulations! You’ve won our lottery! You may be one who died with a great sin, BUT, we’re going to give you a second chance, you lucky soul!” Thus begins Colorful , a new film based on an award-winning 1999 novel and directed by Keiichi Hara, …Read more »
The latest film from Keiichi Hara (Miss Hokusai), Birthday Wonderland, is set to hit Japanese theaters April 26. To get the word out, Warner Bros Japan is streaming a clip from the film featuring the characters Zan Gu (Keiji Fujiwara) and Doropo (Akiko Yajima). Birthday Wonderland (which …Read more »
Keiichi Hara, the director behind Colorful and Miss Hokusai, has given the world the first glimpse at this next project. The visual, depicting a young woman with a bicycle walking through a passageway, was revealed at the Tokyo International Film Festival, which is celebrating Hara …Read more »
As you may have heard, 2017 is kind of a big deal for the history of anime. The first piece of animation made in Japan was produced in 1917, making this whole Japanese animation thing a century old. What better time, thought the folks behind …Read more »
Japan’s Edo Period marked the unification of the country, the moving of the capital from Kyoto to Edo (modern day Tokyo) and most importantly, the end of a long period of internal warfare. This all led to a new level of prosperity for the merchant …Read more »
The Nakano sisters are coming to PS4 and Switch in Japan on March 25 in the Quintessential Quintuplets game titled The Quintessential Quintuplets ∬: Summer Memories Also Come in Five. While there’s no word on a release outside of Japan just yet, more videos recently …Read more »
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