All Posts: Page 19

July 1, 2023 · 0 comments

Gunbuster Files: The Easter Eggs

Gunbuster Files: The Easter Eggs

By Jonathan Clements. The writer and producer Toshio Okada wrote in his memoirs about the experience of announcing Gunbuster: Aim for the Top at a press conference, in which the journalists all looked shocked, and then disappointed, and eventually sidled away, because they were hoping for something serious, and instead were getting pitched this thing […]

June 30, 2023 · 3 comments

NEWSWIRE: July 2023 Pre-Orders

NEWSWIRE: July 2023 Pre-Orders

Well here we are again, on the cusp of another month, and indeed the second half of the year! There’s a lot still to enjoy from our 2023, not least the release of the Annecy award-winning The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes hitting UK cinemas on July 14th, so before we continue make […]

June 28, 2023 · 0 comments

Samurai Reincarnation

Samurai Reincarnation

The late Kinji Fukasaku is most fondly remembered for his hold-no-bars yakuza flicks, characterised by their hard-as-nails anti-heroes and brutal action. However, in the late 1970s, the director began to expand his cinematic palette, first by dipping into the jidaigeki genre with Shogun’s Samurai (1978). Also known as The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy, the film starred semi-frequent Fukasaku collaborator Shinichi […]

June 26, 2023 · 0 comments

Eternal 831

Eternal 831

By Shelley Pallis. Suzushiro might seem a little bit old to be doing a paper round, but he’s a college student on a “newspaper scholarship” who needs the money. Well, everybody needs the money – Japan is on the skids after an “unprecedented disaster”, that might be covid-19, or might be whatever the next jackpot […]

June 22, 2023 · 0 comments

Isao Yukisada’s Go

Isao Yukisada’s Go

By Tom Wilmot. What is nationality? That is the question at the heart of Go (2001), Isao Yukisada’s award-winning film adapted from Kazuki Kaneshiro’s 2000 novel of the same name. The movie explores the endlessly complex subject of nationality and ethnic belonging, via a coming-of-age story sprinkled with romance. A critical and box office success […]

June 19, 2023 · 0 comments

Tunnel to Summer

Tunnel to Summer

By Andrew Osmond. In the film The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes (which has just won a prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival), a modern Japanese boy and girl are caught up in a new version of one of Japan’s oldest stories. It’s a kind of time travel story; it also […]

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