Category: Features

October 26, 2017 · 0 comments

By Gianni Simone. After six difficult years in which it often seemed that it would never be completed, Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World finally came out last November, winning multiple prizes and even being nominated as film of the year by respected film magazine Kinema Junpo. All the Anime met the director […]

October 24, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. When the first edition of The Anime Encyclopedia was published in 2001, the early days of Japanese animation were murky and ill-defined, a matter largely of hearsay and rumour. In the years since, the ongoing digital ingestion of archival materials has thrown increasing amounts of light on the period, and Frederick Litten’s […]

October 23, 2017 · 0 comments

By Roxy Simons. The Sakurada family aren’t exactly what you’d call a typical royal family. Blessed with supernatural abilities, the nine children are determined to live normal lives, well… as normal as you can expect it when they’re constantly on camera or campaigning to win the throne through a public election. It’s not easy to […]

October 20, 2017 · 1 comment

By Roxy Simons. In the ruthless city of Ergastulum chaos reigns, violence and money are the only languages that its inhabitants speak, and an underlying tension between “Normals” and enhanced beings known as “Twilights” bubbles under the surface. Alex Benedetto, a prostitute who’s being abused by her pimp, is our eyes and ears in this […]

October 17, 2017 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. Getting Any? (1995) is Takeshi Kitano’s sex comedy, made around the time he was being feted in the UK as the maker of hardboiled yakuza and more lyrical arthouse movies. It didn’t fit the perception of him at the time and never got a UK theatrical release. However, it remains a fascinating […]