The MAPPA Stage 2023 event took place yesterday, and it gave us some teaser info on the upcoming anime movie The Mourning Children: Nagiko and the Girls Wearing Tsurubami Black (Tsurubami-Iro no Nagiko-tachi in Japanese) that’s directed by Black Lagoon and In This Corner of …Read more »
A second production preview video has arrived for the latest film from In This Corner of the World director Sunao Katabuchi. The film has yet to announce a title, but you can see some samples of how the CONTRAIL production is shaping up in the …Read more »
Sunao Katabuchi, the director behind In This Corner of the World and Blue Lagoon, is working on a new film. That’s the word from Contrail, a new animation company launched by Katabuchi and others who worked on Corner. Contrail has been tweeting about Katabuchi’s new …Read more »
Director Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World is four years old. The historical drama won the 40th Japan Academy Film Prize for Best Animated Film, and Katabuchi took to Twitter to discuss his thoughts on the movie’s anniversary. In a translation provided by …Read more »
A thousand-year dream arrives after 10 Sunao Katabuchi established himself as the bona fide successor (but not imitator) to his old mentor, the late Isao Takahata of Studio Ghibli fame, with 2016’s In This Corner of the World. The extended edition, In This Corner (And …Read more »
Anyone looking for a convenient way to watch the brilliant anime work of Studio 4ºC will get the opportunity next month. The studio announced plans to deliver some of its titles to Netflix when the service launches in Japan on September 2, and that has …Read more »
It was just about nine days ago that we first posted about MAPPA and production company GENCO's efforts to crowdfund the In This Corner of the World anime film. Well, it's officially been successfully funded in that time, having reached its goal of over ¥20million …Read more »
Mai Mai Miracle (or, to literally translate the Japanese title, Mai Mai Shinko and the Millennium-old Magic ) could have been a Studio Ghibli film. Like Isao Takahata’s I Can Hear the Sea and Only Yesterday , Mai is a nostalgic film with a slightly …Read more »
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