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July 6, 2021 · 0 comments
Mamoru Hosoda and Studio Chizu’s BELLE gets world premiere at Cannes ’21
London, UK, 6th July 2021: Animated fantasy BELLE will receive its World Premiere at the 74th Cannes Film Festival on Thursday July 15th in the Cannes Premiere section, joining an exciting line-up which includes new films from Andrea Arnold, Gaspar Noé, Mathieu Amalric and Oliver Stone. This is the first official selection for a film […]
July 5, 2021 · 0 comments
Irezumi
By Tom Wilmot. By the mid-1970s, the decline of the Japanese studio system had led to the rise of pinku eiga, low-budget soft porn movies that were targeted at a male theatre-going audience. However, this transition towards films dominated by eroticism had already begun almost a decade earlier for auteur filmmaker Yasuzo Masumura. The director had continued […]
July 2, 2021 · 0 comments
Books: How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom
By Shelley Pallis. And with an abrupt rip, like a needle scratching on a record, Kazuya is suddenly spirited away to a medieval kingdom under attack by a demon lord. For reasons not entirely clear, this completely normal Japanese teenager has been selected as the hero who can save the kingdom, and now he is […]
July 1, 2021 · 0 comments
NEWSWIRE: August 2021 Releases
The start of a new month means that it’s time for our latest update of what’s coming up from us here at Anime Limited, and this time around we’re going to be focusing almost entirely on the month of August. Now, you’ve already seen a number of our forthcoming August releases – indeed, you may […]
June 29, 2021 · 0 comments
Books: Sexiled
By Shelley Pallis. Tanya is twenty-five years old. She’s got half a decade of adventuring behind her, looting treasure from dungeons, spell-casting to protect her friends from goblins and ghouls. But, you know, twenty-five is kind of old, right? And Ryan, the leader of her party, has just told her that he expects she’ll be […]
June 23, 2021 · 0 comments
Taisho Secrets
By Tom Wilmot. The unprecedented success of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba continues to perplex spectators, with the franchise’s film entry, Mugen Train, shattering records to become Japan’s highest-grossing film of all time. Much of the attention on the property is paid to the stunning animation and action-packed narrative. However, there is something to be said about the […]