Tag: Japan

January 22, 2019 · 0 comments

by Andrew Osmond. And so, it’s finally happened. For the first time ever, an anime feature film which isn’t made by Studio Ghibli has become an official Oscar nominee – namely Mamoru Hosoda’s toddler’s-view fantasy Mirai. As far as most people are concerned, this is the director’s fifth film, following Girl Who Leapt Through Time, […]

January 20, 2019 · 2 comments

By Jasper Sharp. People often assume that the animated muse in Satoshi Kon’s celebration of Japan’s cinematic heritage, Millennium Actress (2001), was based on Setsuko Hara, the film star who anchored Yasujiro Ozu classics like Tokyo Story, and who retired from the screen for fifty years of self-imposed exile. There is, however, at least one […]

January 14, 2019 · 0 comments

By Motoko Tamamuro. Yasuko Shibaguchi’s book, The Colour Artisan of Animation, is one of the (currently) untranslated gems of anime history, an account of the career of Michiyo Yasuda (1939-2016), described by Hayao Miyazaki as “three times sharper and more particular than me,” and a mainstay of Studio Ghibli. This biography throws light on the […]

January 8, 2019 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. The Japan Foundation UK Touring Film Programme has announced its 2019 programme, and it looks like they are putting out a whole lotta love, with “People Still Call It Love: Passion, Affection and Destruction in Japanese Cinema.” Once more, we see the season snowballing in terms of size and reach, with a […]

January 4, 2019 · 0 comments

By Chris Perkins. The world of anime streaming doesn’t stand still for long, so it’s quite normal to find much has changed once again since we last published one of our Streaming Guides. But even by these standards, the latter portion of 2018 saw some seismic shifts in the landscape. These are mostly due to […]