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In the world of prerelease film hype, there are teasers, and there are teasers . The latter tend to be seconds-long snippets that only excite the most salivating of subhumans. Well, lucky for them, I'm on the case and I'm excited! Honestly, they could be …Read more »
It’s official… The JOJOLands is on the way! The next chapter in Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure kicks off early next year in Shueisha’s Ultra Jump. While we wait, we’re looking back on other titles and adaptations in the JoJo-verse. Some official, some… less so. How …Read more »
Metal Gear Solid is on its way to the movies, starring Oscar Isaac as Solid Snake! It’s safe to say we’re all abuzz waiting for more news about the flick. How are we going to keep ourselves occupied? Easy: by dipping into even more live-action …Read more »
There was a JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure panel at Anime Expo 2018 over the weekend, and Viz Media took the opportunity to announce some related licenses. Chief among them was the acquisition of the next chapter in the anime adaptation, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind, which …Read more »
Last week’s Nikufes (Meat Festival) Tokyo 2017 was host to some anime-related programming, including a panel featuring a roundtable discussion with producers Hiroshi Kanemaru, Tomoki Misawa, and 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist anime director Seiji Mizushima. When the topic came around to the trend of live-action films …Read more »
With his latest film, Tetsuo: The Bullet Man , raking in an assortment of mixed criticism—an example of which you can find in the latest issue (June 2011) of Otaku USA —there's no better time than the present to look back at the works of …Read more »
Download it here! Subscribe to us via iTunes! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!! - Evangelion is better than Michael Jackson?! -A Polish-Style Ero-Manga Scandal? -And Thunder-Thunder-THUNDER! THUNDERCATS, HO!! All that, and the May 2010 Best In Tune Special, OMEGA!!! in this week's Friday ACE! SHOW NOTES: …Read more »
I think it's safe to say that the live-action film adaptation of Capcom's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney series—directed by the prolific and wild Takashi Miike ( Audition , 13 Assassins )—is one of the more hotly anticipated movies of this year. Anaheim, CA-based convention AM2 …Read more »
Hey, guys, what would happen if we got Takashi Miike—Japan's all-purpose director of respectable genre masterworks like 13 Assassins and bizarre cult fare like Ichi the Killer —to do a kids' movie? Well, we already found that out last year with his painstakingly faithful and …Read more »
Director Takashi Miike had a lot of success with his colorful live-action adaptation of Tatsunoko Productions' Yatterman , which has blazed on television screens in both reruns and remakes since its 1977 debut. Four weeks with Miike's film at #1 at the Japanese box office …Read more »
Kinji Fukasaku's original Graveyard of Honor (1975) is my favorite Japanese yakuza film ever made. Just as Fukasaku was, to me, Japan's own Martin Scorsese, Graveyard of Honor is basically the Japanese equivalent of Raging Bull . Both are tragic and powerful films about a …Read more »
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