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July 1, 2020 · 0 comments

Since we screened it in cinemas late last year, people have been patiently waiting for our home video release of PROMARE, the first animated feature film by Studio Trigger. Well the time has come because it’s available now as a Blu-ray Ltd. Collector’s Edition set, as well as standard Blu-ray and DVD. To cut to […]

June 30, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. The first season of Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, released as a Collectors Blu-ray set by Anime Limited, is a meeting of two formidable anime forces. One is the venerable Gundam giant robot franchise, which most readers of this blog will know – there’s a general intro here. In any case, Orphans, […]

June 27, 2020 · 0 comments

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

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

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, […]