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October 17, 2017 · 0 comments
Getting Any?
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 […]
March 8, 2024 · 0 comments
SPY x FAMILY CODE: White – Coming to UK cinemas this April!
THE HOTTEST NEW ANIME MAKES ITS LONG-AWAITED BIG SCREEN DEBUT THIS APRIL IN SPY x FAMILY CODE: White Japan’s heartfelt and action-packed #1 box office sensation opens wide across the UK & IRE from Friday 26th April! London, UK, 8th March 2024 – Organising a family holiday can often feel like the world is at […]
January 14, 2024 · 0 comments
Patlabor 2
By Andrew Osmond. The first Patlabor film is an excellent cerebral thriller. Patlabor 2 The Movie, though, is an artistic statement. Thirty years old, it’s still the anime that feels the most like live-action. It’s only tangentially a mecha film, with the title Patlabors on screen for a fraction of the running time. This is […]
December 17, 2023 · 2 comments
Royal Space Force
Jonathan Clements on some of the battles behind The Wings of Honneamise. Nobody knows who it was who walked into a Tokyo coffee shop, one summer day in 1984, and ordered a mix of Assam and Darjeeling, known in Japan as a Royal Milk Tea. But there was a cluster of earnest young men at […]
November 7, 2023 · 0 comments
Japan: Myths to Manga
By Helen McCarthy. Young V&A, formerly the Museum of Childhood, opened its doors again on 1st July 2023 after a revamp that took seven years to plan and design. This is its first exhibition since the opening, and every aspect of its presentation and marketing has been engineered to establish itself with its target audience […]