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Music: Masayoshi Yamazaki
By Jonathan Clements. The accident-prone Masayoshi Yamazaki always seems to be able to fail upwards, starting with the moment in 1991 when the twenty-year-old musician showed up to the wrong audition. Not realising it was not the same company as Kitty Records, he took his guitar along to an open call for Kitty Films, marching […]
Children Who Chase Lost Voices
By Shelley Pallis. Children Who Chase Lost Voices from Deep Below, also known as Journey to Agartha, was a landmark moment in the career of anime director Makoto Shinkai, his second chance at big-budget feature directing, six years after the relatively poor performance of his first full-length feature, The Place Promised in Our Early Days. […]
NEWSWIRE – December 2020 Releases Preview
It’s the start of the month and that means it’s time we give you a preview of what we have in the pipeline for releases coming specifically in December! Now, before we start, it’s worth noting that this isn’t everything you can expect from us in November – as I’m sure many of you aware, […]
5 Centimeters Per Second & Children Who Chase Lost Voices Steelbooks coming!
Since we announced our plans for the home video release of Weathering With You, the latest film from Makoto Shinkai (Your Name), we know a lot of you were excited to see the additional tidbit that we will be adding two more works of his, 5 Centimeters Per Second (pictured right) and Children Who Chase Lost Voices (aka Journey to Agartha) […]
Books: Weathering with You
By Jonathan Clements. It’s raining again. There are rumours about Hodaka at his remote island school. Something happened to him two years ago in the big city, although nobody knows the full story. Not even his probation officer, who finally releases him from his obligations and lets him set off to university as a free […]