Category: Features

December 26, 2016 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. In the middle of Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence, a Japanese is made to dig a pit in the middle of a rainstorm. “How long will he be doing that?” asks Jesuit priest Father Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) imprisoned nearby. “’Til he’s finished,” comes the reply. The speaker might be describing the film […]

December 23, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements Readers of the 25th December 1880 issue of the London Illustrated News were treated to a seasonal gift – a full-page account of the mysteries of an English Christmas, as drawn by a Japanese artist. Its highlights include a Christmas pantomime, rendered in kabuki style, an impressionistic rendering of the making of […]

December 20, 2016 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. A new South Korean film tackles the story behind a major event in twentieth-century military history. Europeans and Americans are familiar with 1944’s D-Day landings, in which the Allied forces landed on the French coast to turn the tide of the war in their favour. The much less well-known battle of Incheon […]

December 17, 2016 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. Yoshiki Takaya’s manga The Guyver was published in 1985. It spawned one anime movie Guyver: Out Of Control (1986), two anime serials (in 1989 and 2005) and two low-budget, US live-action movies. The Japanese title literally translates as The Guyver Bio Booster Armour under which moniker the second anime series is known […]

December 14, 2016 · 0 comments

By Meghan Ellis. It’s the destruction of Tokyo, but not like you’ve seen it before. Erupting onto screens with an abundance of rayon outfits, rainbows and roundhouse kicks, The Rolling Girls offers high-octane hijinks from Wit Studio, creators of the grisly Attack on Titan and Seraph of the End. But while there’s plenty of the […]