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Boruto Naruto the Movie, The Emperor in August, This Country’s Sky, Tomomichi...
Happy weekend people! There are lots of news stories and documentaries like Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise (dir. Mark Cousins) marking 70 years since the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima...
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Lychee Light Club Manga Review
Title: Lychee Light Club ライチ☆光クラブ, Raichi☆Hikari Kurabu Author: Usamaru Furuya Launched in 2005, 1 volume and completed Lychee Hikari Club is a one-volume manga whose origins can be found in a stage...
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Live-Action ライチ☆光クラブ Litchi Hikari Club Film Preview
I reviewed the manga Lychee Light Club/Litchi Hikari Club at the beginning of the week and in the post I mentioned that there would be a live-action adaptation of the manga created by Usamaru Furuya in...
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Dressing Up, The Killing Curriculum, D-Boys D Stage 14th Twelfth Night,...
Happy weekend! It’s a slow weekend in terms of films released. There are plenty of documentaries about World War II just in time for the events surrounding Japan’s surrender to Allied forces. The most...
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Third Window Films Release A Snake of June on September 28th
Third Window Films continues to do justice to the back-catalogue of director Shinya Tsukamoto by picking up and releasing one of his most critically acclaimed and internationally known works, A Snake...
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The Gift (2015)
The Gift UK Release Date: August 07th, 2015 Running Time: 108 mins. Directors: Joel Edgerton Writer: Joel Edgerton (Screenplay) Starring: Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, Wendell Pierce,...
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Tokyo PR Woman, at Home, Gekijouban Date A Live: Mayuri Judgment, Aikatsu!...
Happy weekend, readers! There is plenty of anime released this weekend and some minor drama releases. The D-Boys are still getting their retrospective screenings. Nothing really grabs my interest but...
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Puzzle パズル (2014)
Puzzle Puzzle Film Poster Japanese: パズル Romaji: Pazuru Running Time: 85 mins. Release Date: March 08th, 2014 (Japan) Director: Eisuke Naito Writer: Eisuke Naito, Makoto Sasaki (Screenplay),...
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Round Trip Heart, S: The Last Policeman: Recovery of Our Future, Yowamushi...
Happy weekend, readers! The UK film festival season approaching and the imminent financial meltdown many Asian film fans will face when they want to attend Raindance, the London Film Festival and more...
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Japanese Films at the 2015 Raindance Film Festival
The Raindance Film Festival has announced the feature films that will be screened and it contains a lot. I like to think I do a decent job shining a light on a lot of the Japanese films released every...
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Japanese Films at the Toronto International Film Festival 2015
If you are in Canada you have three film festivals with Japanese films playing a significant part. Montreal (which I am not covering) has around twenty Japanese titles while Toronto has nine...
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The Virgin Psychics, Neko Samurai 2: A Tropical Adventure, Piece of Cake,...
Happy weekend people! The autumn film festival season has launched and I am previewing the Japanese films at five different events. This week saw me cover the Raindance Film Festival and the Toronto...
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Japanese Films at the London Film Festival 2015
The programme for the BFI London Film Festival was announced last week and it has a selection of interesting titles. A lot of the features have been in festivals since the start of the year and two of...
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Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival 2015 Line-Up
The Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival takes place in Wales later this month in Cardiff and again at the end of October in Aberystwyth. It is the only film event in Wales to show anime on the big...
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Uchimura Summers the Movie: Angel, The Big Bee, BLACK ROOM, Watashitachi no...
Happy weekend people! The summer 2015 anime season is winding down now and so I am preparing to embark upon one of those lengthy autumn season guides for Anime UK News. Stop by at the site to see some...
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Maison de Himiko 「メゾン・ド・ヒミコ」2005
La Maison de Himiko メゾン・ド・ヒミコ「Mezon do Himiko」 Release Date: August 27th, 2005 Running Time: 131 mins. Director: Isshin Inudo Writer: Aya Watanabe (Screenplay), Starring: Kou Shibasaki, Joe...
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Attack on Titan: End of the World, The Letters, Heroine Shikkaku, Heroine...
I only published one review this week and that was for the wonderful Maison de Himiko. What’s released in Japan this weekend? Haikyu!! the Movie: Winners and Losers Gekijōban Haikyu! ! Shōsha to...
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Japanese Films at the 2015 Vancouver International Film Festival
The Vancouver International Film Festival takes place at the end of September and throughout a lot of October and it caps a series of international festivals jam-packed with Japanese content. It has a...
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Wake Up, Girls! Seishun no Kage, ARIA The AVVENIRE, Antonym, SLUM-POLIS,...
Happy weekend readers! Octopus Film Image As you’re reading this I am at my second film festival in the mighty month of September. The first was the Raindance Film Festival where I watched Slum-polis...
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Mutant Girls Squad 戦闘少女 血の鉄仮面伝説 (2010)
Mutant Girls Squad Japanese: 戦闘少女 血の鉄仮面伝説 Romaji: Sento shojo: Chi no tekkamen densetsu Release Date: May 22nd, 2010 Running Time: 90 mins. Directors: Tak Sakaguchi, Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro...
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