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May 31, 2020 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. Akira Kurosawa’s three-and-a-half-hour epic Seven Samurai (1954) remains to this day a landmark movie in Japanese and world cinema. It is currently streaming on BFI Player as part of the five month long Japan 2020 programme alongside 21 other Kurosawa films together with a much wider selection of Japanese movies including some […]

May 29, 2020 · 0 comments

After recent podcasts of ours talking about the series and even the impact of its source material in Japan, chances are you might have been wondering when you could expect to hear about our upcoming release of the futuristic boxing series, Megalobox? Well today is the day we can tell you! We’ve excited to tell you […]

May 28, 2020 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer (2013), which never had a theatrical release in the UK during its original, international run, finally appears in the UK on home video. Described as “High Rise on a train” by Mark Kermode, it’s an uncompromising dystopian vision, and we can safely attribute its appearance on […]

May 27, 2020 · 0 comments

“CLOUD MATSURI PREVIEW” [NOTE: This episode was originally streamed live on YouTube] CLOUD MATSURI PREVIEW! It’s been a few weeks since our last podcast, but for very good reason as this weekend we’ll be having our own virtual convention featuring special guests from Japan and more at CloudMatsuri.com Join Jeremy and Andy in this special […]

May 25, 2020 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. “Asked to be the voice of an angry 900-pound, twelve-foot-tall wolf god, Gillian Anderson did pretty well and handled the recording session with considerable grace.” It’s all in a day’s work for Steve Alpert, the American executive hired to sell Studio Ghibli to the world. Originally part-released as a long-gone online diary, […]