Tag: Jonathan Clements

October 14, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Alexander Zahlten’s new book begins with an entertainingly awkward scene at the Tokyo premiere of Akira Kurosawa’s Kagemusha, when a photo opportunity went horribly wrong. Big-name producer Haruki Kadokawa came over to shake Kurosawa’s hand, but the superstar director turned away and refused to speak to him. Kadokawa had transformed Japanese cinema, […]

October 13, 2017 · 0 comments

All The Anime Podcast #40 – Season 2, episode #18: “Scotland Loves Anime 2017 Special (Part 1)” [Recorded on 13th October] On this edition of the podcast it’s the first of a three part special focusing on the Scotland Loves Anime film festival. Join Jeremy, Andy, Lauren, Keith, Andrew and special guest Jonathan Clements to […]

October 12, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. Three tramps, alcoholic Gin, transvestite Hana and teen runaway Miyuki, find an abandoned baby while searching through the trash on Christmas Eve. They decide to return it to its mother, only to plunge into a whirl of scandal, kidnapping and attempted murder, all on the one day when Tokyo is supposed to […]

October 9, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jonathan Clements. School’s out for summer, but most of the boys are too deeply involved in an argument about fireworks to notice the drama unfolding elsewhere. Nazuna (Suzu Hirose), their prettiest classmate, won’t be coming back in the new term – her mother is remarrying and moving to a new town, and plans to […]

September 26, 2017 · 0 comments

Jonathan Clements on Isao Takahata’s obscure pre-Ghibli comedy. Chie the Brat, the adventures of “the unluckiest girl in Japan,” was conceived as a slapstick celebration of blue-collar life in Osaka, based on an award-winning strip by Etsumi Haruki in Manga Action. Chie helps out at the family restaurant, a shack selling grilled offal in downtown […]