Tag: cinema

September 11, 2016 · 0 comments

Jeremy Clarke on a story too crazy to be anything but true… The Lovers And The Despot concerns a South Korean film director and his leading actress, kidnapped by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for the purpose of beefing up that country’s film industry – an incredible story that may be familiar from the earlier […]

September 9, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp.It is that time of year again, as the tumbling temperatures, dwindling daylight hours and falling leaves signal the last gasp of summer, that UK film fans can take heart in the knowledge that a new season is just about to dawn – the film festival season. The past weeks have seen programme […]

September 2, 2016 · 3 comments

We’re concluding this week with some very exciting news! We (Anime Limited) are delighted to announced that we are bringing Your Name, the latest and great film from Makoto Shinkai (The Garden of Words, 5 Centimeters Per Second, The Place Promised in our Early Days) to the United Kingdom and Ireland! We’re going to be […]

September 1, 2016 · 1 comment

By Jasper Sharp. Tetsuya Nakashima’s 2010 movie Confessions, in which an embittered teacher avenged the death of her child at the hands of schoolchildren, caused plenty of commotion on its overseas release. World of Kanako continues Nakashima’s trawl into the darker recesses of the soul and will similarly divide opinion. Adapted from by Akio Fukamachi’s […]

August 25, 2016 · 0 comments

Jeremy Clarke on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s supernatural love story Journey to the Shore. Mizuki (Eri Fukatsu) works as a children’s piano teacher, berated by the mother of a student who tells her that her teaching style should be more upbeat. She seems something of a loner and is spending her evening alone having just baked Shiratama […]