Category: Features
August 17, 2017 · 0 comments
Books: Tokyo Geek’s Guide
By Helen McCarthy . When I’m packing for a trip to Tokyo, the first book into the suitcase is my battered copy of the Kodansha bilingual Tokyo City Atlas. It has saved the day from my pidgin Japanese and poor spatial skills on numerous occasions. But I usually know where I want to go in […]
August 14, 2017 · 0 comments
The Saga of Anatahan
By Jasper Sharp. When did Japanese cinema first get so sexy? It is a question that Eureka Entertainment’s release of the little-seen The Saga of Anatahan (1953) goes some way in answering. The film is based on a true incident in which a group of Japanese sailors were marooned on a remote jungle island situated […]
August 11, 2017 · 0 comments
Napping Princess
By Andrew Osmond. Many anime movies are set in fantastical worlds, many in the real one. Recently, anime movies that aren’t franchise spinoffs have leaned towards real-world settings, contemporary or near-contemporary, from A Silent Voice to Genocidal Organ. But what’s more unusual is to find a film leaping freely between reality and fantasy, like Napping […]
August 8, 2017 · 0 comments
Kenji Kamiyama: Napping Princess
By Gianni Simone. This time, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex director Kenji Kamiyama has something quite different to offer his fans. After his first original work, Eden of the East, received critical acclaim, his new film, Napping Princess mixes robots with traditional fantasy elements while exploring the enduring value of family ties. All […]
August 5, 2017 · 1 comment
Shin Godzilla
By Jasper Sharp. The world’s favourite movie monster returns to British screens this August in Shin Godzilla, which sees Japan’s legendary fire-breathing lizard once more rising from the cold blue depths of the Pacific to lay waste to huge swathes of Tokyo. Released in July of last year, Toho’s latest reboot of a franchise that […]