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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
By Andrew Osmond. Early in Jin-roh, a young girl who’s more child than woman slumps against a wall in a sewer, a dark limbo of brick and water. She’s been running a long time, but there’s no escape. She looks up to see a soldier watching her, with infra-red eyes in a metal helmet. The […]
Hiroyuki Okiura: The Story So Far
Andy Hanley on the director of Letter to Momo. When it comes to well-known anime film directors, it’s easy to pigeon-hole them in the expectation that their works will adhere to a particular genre or style – mention Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda or Makoto Shinkai, and most fans of the medium will instantly be able […]
A Letter to Momo
By Andrew Osmond. It starts with a grieving girl on a boat on Japan’s Inland Sea, travelling unhappily to a new island home, while three strange-looking raindrops fall on her head. By the climax, the girl is racing against time, rushing through a torrential storm in the company of wondrous magic creatures. This is the […]
Title announcement: A Letter to Momo Coming to UK Cinemas in 2013
Anime Limited is very excited to announce the upcoming UK theatrical release of the acclaimed anime film A Letter to Momo. A Letter to Momo follows the adventures of Momo, an 11 year old girl whose entire world has been rocked by the untimely death of her father. Forced to leave her life in Tokyo […]