On Saturday, October 19, 2013, Cartoon Network premiered the 16th Pokémon movie, Pokémon the Movie: Genesect and the Legend Awakened , three months after its successful theatrical run in Japan, the quickest trip to a U.S. showing in the entire history of Pokémon movies. This …Read more »
Last week, we brought you a transcript of Mamoru Hosoda's public Q&A session on Wolf Children at the New York International Children's Film Festival. We were also able to get some one-on-one time with the famous anime director to discuss things in further detail. Q: …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda, director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006), Summer Wars (2010), and the first two Digimon movie shorts (1999-2000), appeared at the New York International Children’s Film Festival on March 9, 2013 to present his newest animated feature, Wolf Children , and …Read more »
From Up on Poppy Hill is Studio Ghibli’s latest feature and the highest grossing box office hit in Japan in 2011. It’s the second film directed by Goro Miyazaki ( Tales From Earthsea ), son of Hayao Miyazaki, and it was shown in the U.S. …Read more »
Wolf Children is Mamoru Hosoda’s third full-length feature (and the third to premiere in the U.S. at the New York International Children’s Film Festival) and it continues his streak of artistically superior works of animation that also happen to be real crowd-pleasers. As good as …Read more »
On Saturday, December 8, 2012, Cartoon Network premiered the 15th Pokémon movie, Pokémon the Movie: Kyurem vs. the Sword of Justice . There was no theatrical showing this year, as there was for last year’s movie, Pokémon the Movie White: Victini and Zekrom , which …Read more »
You Kikkawa (aka Yuu Kikkawa) is the latest solo artist to come out of Hello! Project, the J-pop organization responsible for Morning Musume, Berryz Kobo, C-ute and assorted spin-off groups and solo singers. She had auditioned for Morning Musume’s 8 th Generation back in 2007 …Read more »
Berryz Kobo is one of the three main acts, along with Morning Musume and C-ute, headlining Hello! Project, Japan’s leading empire of all-girl J-pop singing groups. They made their first trip to America when they performed at Sakura-Con in Seattle in April 2011 and followed …Read more »
A Letter To Momo (2011) had its American premiere in a digitally projected English-subtitled showing on March 3, 2012 at the IFC Center in Manhattan as part of the New York International Children’s Film Festival. It was produced by Production I.G. and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, …Read more »
Ocean Waves ( Umi ga Kikoeru , aka I Can Hear the Ocean ) is a made-for-TV animated movie from Studio Ghibli that was first shown on TV in Japan on May 5, 1993. It’s long been considered the “lost” Studio Ghibli film because it …Read more »
The 14 th and 15 th Pokémon movies came to the U.S. in English-dubbed editions in December 2011 after attaining the second and third spots in the ranking of the year’s domestic box office hits in Japan (beaten only by Studio Ghibli’s latest, From Up …Read more »
The 2011 New York International Children’s Film Festival offered U.S. premieres of two Japanese animated features from 2010— Welcome to the Space Show and Time of Eve , both shown via digital projection in Japanese with English subtitles. One is a whimsical children’s journey through …Read more »
Rika Ishikawa came from Japan to appear at the New York Comic Con/New York Anime Festival combined event on October 8 & 9, 2010. A former member of girl group sensation Morning Musume, Ishikawa came in character as the “Angry” half of the punk/gothic rock …Read more »
The 2010 New York International Children’s Film Festival offered U.S. premieres of three Japanese animated features from 2009— Summer Wars , Oblivion Island , and Mai Mai Miracle —all shown in subtitled 35mm prints to sold-out houses of parents and enthusiastic children of all ages. …Read more »
At Anime Expo this year, one of the surprise guests accompanying Morning Musume on their historic first trip to America was none other than Hitomi Yoshizawa, the last group leader of MM before the current one, Ai Takahashi. Yoshizawa was a member of the 4th …Read more »
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