Tag: Jonathan Clements

July 27, 2016 · 0 comments

Jonathan Clements on ANN’s 18th Birthday. Dateline: 27th July 1998. This is the anime news. ADV Films have decided to go after the Evangelion movies after all. Urban Vision will be releasing Vampire Hunter D. Drama at Anime Expo as security shuts down a “night of bishonen pleasure.” And Disney announces its English-language voice cast […]

July 12, 2016 · 0 comments

Jonathan Clements reviews a book on Japan’s landmark censorship cases. It began with newsboys in the Tokyo streets with stacks of a racy foreign book, wearing jackets that proclaimed “WARNING! CHATTERLEY.” For the first big test of Japan’s new free-speech constitution was the publication of the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1951, when the country […]

July 3, 2016 · 1 comment

By Jonathan Clements. Although the title of Sean Macdonald’s new book is Animation in China: history, aesthetics, media, it keeps largely to an account of the group of animators and facilities that formed the nucleus of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1957. He has plainly realised that a little coverage of the pre-war Wan […]

May 8, 2016 · 0 comments

Isao Tomita, who died on 5th May, was not just a composer, but also a performer and a pioneer in electronic music. Born in what is now Suginami ward in Tokyo, he spent much of his childhood in China, where his father Kiyoshi was a physician at the Kanebo textile mill in Qingdao. It was […]

April 12, 2016 · 0 comments

Andrew Osmond on the true story of the Shimabara Rebellion. Christ’s Samurai by Jonathan Clements tells two stories, one enfolded within the other. The broader story is that of Christianity in Japan, beginning with the first missionaries to the country in the sixteenth century, their early success in winning converts (especially on the southern Japanese […]