Over the past few years, the organizers of the Tokyo International Film Festival have been adding one of Japan’s biggest cultural exports, anime, to the mix, featuring films and talks with directors including Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. This year, TIFF also rolled out a …Read more »
We reviewed Mamoru Hosoda's latest film , The Boy and the Beast , back in July, and it's been going strong in Japan all the while. In the month since it was released on July 11, The Boy and the Beast has attracted three million …Read more »
The hype train for the new Mamoru Hosoda film, The Boy and the Beast , is chugging along at full steam. And speaking of chugging, the latest ad for the film features its main characters gulping down some Green Dakara, a Japanese drink brand. The …Read more »
FUNimation kicked off the weekend by announcing its acquisition of The Boy and the Beast , the latest anime film from acclaimed director Mamoru Hosoda ( Wolf Children , Summer Wars ). In an agreement with Gaumont International, FUNimation landed exclusive rights to theatrical, digital, …Read more »
Yesterday we posted about the reveal of the next anime movie from Mamoru Hosoda , the acclaimed director behind The Girl Who Leapt Through Time , Summer Wars , and more. Bakemono no Ko ( The Boy and the Beast ) is scheduled to premiere …Read more »
FUNimation is rolling out more promotion for its release of Mamoru Hosoda's Wolf Children film, which is set to receive a limited theatrical run. FUNimation will also be releasing the movie on home video this year, and a number of screenings are scheduled for various …Read more »
While Psycho-Pass graces the cover of the latest issue of Otaku USA magazine, there's no doubt that one of the most-demanded features is Sword Art Online . Readers asked for it, and Mike Dent pulled double duty to deliver a piping hot overview of the …Read more »
As our bold contributor Mike Dent points out in his cover story feature on Psycho-Pass , perhaps the most terrifying thing about the anime series is how close its reality is to our own. Not that we have Enforcers stomping around trying to put a …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 »
In case you haven't heard yet, Funimation recently teamed up with NYC-based distributor GKIDS to submit Summer Wars for consideration by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Yep, that means Mamoru Hosoda's film is going to be trying for some Oscar magic in …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 »
Normally my goal is to avoid theaters that are explicitly loaded with children at all costs, but I may have to make an exception for some of the showings at this year's New York International Children's Film Festival. In association with New York-Tokyo, NYICFF is …Read more »
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