The live-action Tokyo Revengers 2 is actually two movies: Chi no Halloween -Unmei- (translated as Bloody Halloween -Fate-) and Chi no Halloween -Kessen- (translated as Bloody Halloween -Decisive Battle-). The first one came out in April, but the second one isn’t due to hit Japanese …Read more »
From Draluc to Ronaldo and, of course, a little puppet representing the lovable armadillo John, everyone is present and dying to please the audience in The Vampire Dies in No Time stage play adaptation. Itaru Bonnoki’s manga may be on indefinite hiatus, but at least …Read more »
Chainsaw Man opens with main character Denji wanting to get some action. And he does get a lot of action — in the live-action pornographic movie spoof Dildo Man. (You can guess what the chainsaws are replaced with.) This is the work of Studio TMA, …Read more »
Netflix has revealed an image of their upcoming One Piece live adaptation that shows the front of their ship, Going Merry. Naturally the internet had to give its opinion on this, and according to what SoraNews24 found in a sampling of Japanese online responses, the …Read more »
The second season for the Ōoku: The Inner Chambers live-action series shared more about the actors in the upcoming “Cure Arc.” Nao Matsushita will play Okitsugu Tanuma, Yumi Adachi will play Sadanobu Matsudaira, and Keito Okamoto will play Ihei. Matsushita has previously done the theme …Read more »
This July will mark the premiere of a live-action TV drama based on the Barakamon manga by Satsuki Yoshino. Along with the reveal of the release month, Fuji TV announced that the series will star Yosuke Sugino in the role of Seishu Handa, pictured in …Read more »
It won’t be much longer before the special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always hits Netflix on April 19. According to an article with the Guardian where several members of the cast were interviewed, this special never would have happened if it weren’t for …Read more »
Junji Ito’s short story “Bloodsucking Darkness” is being turned into a live-action American feature film, and Ito himself is producing. It’s being backed by Fangoria Studios, the recently-made studio that’s an offshoot of the popular Fangoria magazine. Ito shared his excitement about the project. “Fangoria …Read more »
Sad news in the world of Japanese film today. Sadao Iizuka, whose optical effects work graced legendary tokusatsu titles from Godzilla to Ultraman, has died at the age of 88. Iizuka’s cause of death was pneumonia. Born in Tokyo in 1934, Iizuka worked on effects …Read more »
The Netflix special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always will be here on April 19, and it has Walter Emanuel Jones, the original Black Ranger; David Yost, the original Blue Ranger; Catherine Sutherland, the second Pink Ranger; Steve Cardenas, the second Red Ranger; Karan …Read more »
It’s almost morphin time! The upcoming Netflix special, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, which will hit the streaming service on April 19, has released a trailer. In it, you can see that Rita Repulsa is once again up to her dastardly deeds, and …Read more »
The Saint Seiya manga by Masami Kurumada is receiving a live-action adaptation called Saint Seiya: The Beginning that will be hitting Japanese theaters on April 28. It will be released in other countries sometime this year. A trailer has dropped. According to Yoshi Ikezawa, a …Read more »
Not everyone can be in Japan to see SPIRITED AWAY: Live On Stage, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t see it at all! GKIDS, which also distributes Studio Ghibli anime movies, has revealed that it’s gotten North American audiovisual distribution rights for SPIRITED AWAY: …Read more »
This June 20, the live-action Whisper of the Heart will become available through video on demand. But not everyone has to wait that long to see it. Capelight Pictures, a distributor from Berlin, is going to offer it in select theaters this Friday, but only …Read more »
Forbes’s Ollie Bardie conducted a lengthy interview with Shinichiro Watanabe, talking about his beginnings, his work on the anime Cowboy Bebop, what he thought of the Netflix live-action Cowboy Bebop, and his experiences working on The Animatrix. The interview brings alive much of Watanabe’s life …Read more »
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