Category: Features

May 10, 2020 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. Kwaidan, Masaki Kobayashi’s classic compendium of ghostly Japanese folktales has just been given the Blu-ray treatment for UK audiences, with a bumper new package released on Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label, following Criterion’s high-definition US release in 2015.

May 7, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. You can see the second volume of Welcome to the Ballroom (eps 13-24) as one long arc in which the young dancing hero Tatara must learn about going steady. Desperate to advance his dancing, and desolate about how far his peers are above him, Tatara is presented with a new potential dancing […]

May 4, 2020 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. In his new book on visions of Japanese cities, William O. Gardner explores the “ruins of the future”, in particular the ideas of the Metabolists, a group of Japanese architects obsessed with the integration of cities with the human being – the creation of new metropolises on reclaimed land, and urban design […]

April 29, 2020 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam has been going over forty years, and in that time it’s had loads of little nods and references to make viewers go “Eh?” Granted, the franchise may not have as many pop-culture references as Cowboy Bebop or Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Even among mecha anime, it’s doubtful any individual Gundam series has […]

April 26, 2020 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest feature, the samurai movie Killing comes to UK Blu-ray in a two-disc edition, along with two fascinating shorts: the Super-8 epic The Adventure of Denchu Kozo and the later masterpiece Haze. All three feature informative audio commentaries by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto […]