Tag: Japan

May 4, 2020 · 0 comments

Books: The Metabolist Imagination

Books: The Metabolist Imagination

By Jonathan Clements. In his new book on visions of Japanese cities, William O. Gardner explores the “ruins of the future”, in particular the ideas of the Metabolists, a group of Japanese architects obsessed with the integration of cities with the human being – the creation of new metropolises on reclaimed land, and urban design […]

April 29, 2020 · 0 comments

Gundam’s Top 10 Easter Eggs

Gundam’s Top 10 Easter Eggs

By Andrew Osmond. Gundam has been going over forty years, and in that time it’s had loads of little nods and references to make viewers go “Eh?” Granted, the franchise may not have as many pop-culture references as Cowboy Bebop or Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. Even among mecha anime, it’s doubtful any individual Gundam series has […]

April 26, 2020 · 0 comments

Tsukamoto: Three Films

Tsukamoto: Three Films

by Jeremy Clarke. Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest feature, the samurai movie Killing comes to UK Blu-ray in a two-disc edition, along with two fascinating shorts: the Super-8 epic The Adventure of Denchu Kozo and the later masterpiece Haze. All three feature informative audio commentaries by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto […]

April 23, 2020 · 0 comments

Books: Kore-eda’s Elemental Cinema

Books: Kore-eda’s Elemental Cinema

By Jasper Sharp. Ask anyone about the state of contemporary Japanese cinema and the one name that is sure to come up is that of the subject of Linda Ehrlich’s The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema, surprisingly the first book-length focus on the director. For well over two decades, Kore-eda has enjoyed widespread […]

April 20, 2020 · 0 comments

Books: Manga Cultures & the Female Gaze

Books: Manga Cultures & the Female Gaze

By Shelley Pallis. Kathryn Hemmann’s new book, Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze, quotes an incident oft-cited in discussions of fandom – Anne Rice’s complaint that critics of her vampire novels were “interrogating the text from the wrong perspective.” Rice was famously furious that many of her readers disapproved of the direction her books were […]

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