Tag: Sunao Katabuchi

June 12, 2018 · 0 comments

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 […]

February 19, 2018 · 0 comments

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 […]

December 19, 2017 · 0 comments

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 […]

October 26, 2017 · 0 comments

By Gianni Simone. After six difficult years in which it often seemed that it would never be completed, Sunao Katabuchi’s In This Corner of the World finally came out last November, winning multiple prizes and even being nominated as film of the year by respected film magazine Kinema Junpo. All the Anime met the director […]

June 26, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Anime movies have tackled heavy subjects for decades, and the recent crop has been no exception. Some address their topics head on, like the shocking Genocidal Organ. Others are more indirect. Your Name was a teen romcom fantasy that implicitly raised the horrors of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. A Silent Voice used […]