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Period Pieces: Mai Mai Miracle
By Andrew Osmond. The story of Mai Mai Miracle takes place in a very specific time, 1955, with some excursions back a millennium into the past. The film’s setting is Hofu, a coastal city in Yamaguchi prefecture at the bottom of Japan’s main island, Honshu. As the script mentions, in previous centuries the area used […]
[UNBOXING] Princess Arete
If our catalogue of titles is anything to go by then you know that we (Anime Ltd.) love to bring films or TV series to the UK audience that perhaps haven’t had much exposure in the past or in some cases have never been released. Today we’re delighted to bring an unboxing of a set that’s […]
Mai Mai Miracle: The Origins
By Andrew Osmond. In 2009, Mai Mai Miracle’s director Sunao Kutabuchi released an unusual adjunct to his film, a self-published free magazine called The Days Blown By Mai Mai Miracle. It included his account of the origins and development of the story. As the director explained, Mai Mai Miracle had several starting points. One was […]
Now is the Time: Mai Mai Miracle
By Andrew Osmond. Mai Mai Miracle may be set in 1955, but it’s about the endless now of childhood: summer days that last forever, liminal worlds of the imagination. For the kids in the film, a wheat field is the sea; all caves hide monsters; fish are magic and the coolest friends are the ones in your head. Nine-year-old […]
Newswire #104 – 5th May 2017
We’re closing out the week with a new edition of our Newswire for you! We’ve got some updates relating to all sorts of things for you, so we wanted correlate them all in one place before the weekend. Read on below for details. CINEMA SCREENINGS UPDATE ~ Fairy Tail Dragon Cry is in cinemas on 17th […]