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June 27, 2020 · 0 comments
Books: Chinese Cinema
By Jonathan Clements. Hot on the heels of The Japanese Cinema Book, Bloomsbury puts out a new edition of The Chinese Cinema Book, edited by Lim Song Hwee and Julian Ward. Perhaps reflecting smaller returns, both citationally and financially, The Chinese Cinema Book is half the size of its Japanese stablemate, despite China being one […]
June 24, 2020 · 0 comments
Megalo Box
By Andrew Osmond. Megalo Box is a combo of sports show and SF. It’s a boxing series about an underdog who, as we’ll see, is linked to an older battered hero than Rocky. The show was made by TMS Entertainment, which is a new name for the famous Tokyo Movie Shinsha studio. In Megalo Box, […]
June 21, 2020 · 0 comments
The Mad Fox
by Jeremy Clarke. The second Tomu Uchida film to receive a Blu-ray release after the black and white Bloody Spear At Mount Fuji (1955) is the colour The Mad Fox a.k.a. Love, Thy Name Be Sorrow (1962). This extraordinary and arresting Heian period (794-1185) fantasy drama involves an astrologer, his adopted daughter, her wicked stepmother, […]
June 19, 2020 · 1 comment
Gundam 00 Film + OVA set comes to Blu-ray this August
Towards the end of 2019 we brought you both halves of another classic Mobile Suit Gundam series on Blu-ray in the form of Gundam 00, and we know a lot of you have been loving the chance to own and enjoy this beloved addition to the franchise. But, of course, we’re not done yet – […]
June 18, 2020 · 1 comment
Bartender
By Shelley Pallis. The Ginza, which takes its name from the old silver mint that used to be there in samurai days, is one of the poshest parts of Tokyo – it’s the most expensive square on a Japanese Monopoly board, making it the equivalent of London’s Mayfair. And in Araki Joh’s 2004 manga Bartender […]