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Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 – […]