It’s a terrible cliché, but films like Redline don’t come around very often. The popularity of sci-fi anime films seems to have died out with the rise of digital animation, but while Redline succeeds in appealing to old-school fans, it has plenty to offer newer fans as well. Takeshi …Read more »
Redline, one of the most raucous, eye-smashing films of the last, well, ever, has been made available for streaming on YouTube at no charge. In celebration, we’re posting this feature on the film, first featured in the magazine back in 2010: Once upon a time, …Read more »
The last few years, running on a parallel track to the “regular” Lupin series and specials has been Lupin the IIIrd, a series of movie/OVA thingers helmed by Takeshi Koike, one of the coolest animators in Japan. Now we’ve got some details on the latest …Read more »
Daisuke Jigen is dead. If you believe that, Takeshi Koike has a Fiat 500 to sell you. He’s the director of Daisuke Jigen’s Gravestone , the new Lupin special out in Tokyo this week. This isn’t the first run-in Koike, the director of Redline , …Read more »
A few weeks ago, we buzzed excitedly about the new Takeshi Koike-directed Lupin III film. Man, is this going to be cool or what? Well, a few shots of the film dropped along with an interview with the man playing Jigen one last time, and …Read more »
There is a small, albeit significant, minority of anime fans out there for whom the feature film Redline encapsulates the spirit of what they wished most anime produced was like. I consider myself one of them, which is why it’s that much more crushing that …Read more »
It's been a while since we posted a trailer for Takeshi Koike's upcoming film Redline , but that doesn't make us any less excited to check out it out when it finally hits North America. In fact, the trailer is just serving to make the …Read more »
My, my, my... this is awesome. Directed by Takeshi Koike ( Ninja Scroll ), with Katsuhito Ishii ( The Taste of Tea ) among the writers, Redline is looking every bit as hot as one would imagine in this new full English trailer. The story …Read more »
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