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December 22, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. Mere days before Christmas, the Japan Foundation has announced its annual batch of seasonal goodies to get us film fans through the dark and gloomy post-festive doldrums of early 2018. This year’s nationwide touring programme, running from 2nd February to 28th March, comes packaged under the characteristically all-encompassing tag of “(Un)true Colours: […]

December 19, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. In 2009, Mai Mai Miracle’s director Sunao Kutabuchi released an unusual adjunct to his film, a self-published free magazine called The Days Blown By Mai Mai Miracle. It included his account of the origins and development of the story. As the director explained, Mai Mai Miracle had several starting points. One was […]

December 16, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. As its subtitle suggests, Wu Weihua’s book Chinese Animation: Creative Industries and Digital Culture delves into two specific elements of cartoons in China – the effects of disruptive transitions on a struggling business, and the massive transformations wrought by computers. Both these areas are under-represented in previous studies of the medium, and […]

December 13, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. If you saw the film title Sword of the Stranger without knowing anything else about it, you might guess it was a no-nonsense action flick, perhaps with a Man With No Name hero and a great many bladed weapons. And you’d be right. It’s also an anime by the Cowboy Bebop studio, […]

December 11, 2017 · 1 comment

Howdy folks! We hope you’ve all been enjoying our 12 Days of Christmas deals, and are suitably prepared for our twelfth and final deal tomorrow, the much-vaunted “Mystery Box”. Please don’t ask us what’s in it though because, y’know, it’s a mystery. Anyhow, there’s far more going on that just our Christmas offers this week, […]