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Happy Hour, Nagasaki: Memories of My Son, Wake Up, Girls! Beyond the Bottom,...
Happy weekend! I had a productive week in terms of movie-watching with High Noon, Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, The Draughtsman’s Contract watched. I went and reviewed Ruined Heart (2014) as...
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I Am a Hero Live-Action Trailer
As a fan of the manga I Am a Hero I had been cautious in getting my hopes up for this one since the horror genre has been in the doldrums in Japan with a mixture of dumb low-budget, badly-made schlock...
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Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies ステーシー (2008)
Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies Stacy Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies Film Poster ステーシー「Sute-shi-」 Release Date: February 18th, 2008 Running Time: 80 mins. Director: Naoyuki Tomomatsu...
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Her Father, My Lover, Hana’s Miso Soup, Eiga Youkai Watch: Enma Daioh to...
Happy weekend!! A week left until Christmas. The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme has been announced and so I’ll get a preview of that done but for Anime UK News. Here I’ll try and close out the...
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The Machine Girl 片腕マシンガール (2008)
The Machine Girl 片腕マシンガール「Kataude Mashin Garu」 Release Date: August 02nd, 2008 Running Time: 96 mins. Director: Noboru Iguchi Writer: Noboru Iguchi (Screenplay), Starring: Minase Yashiro, Asami,...
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Eiga Chibi Maruko-chan – A Boy from Italy -, Showa Genroku Era Comic...
Happy Weekend and Merry Christmas, people! I hope you guys had a good Christmas. I have had a lot of time off work recently and so I watched a lot of films including Howl’s Moving Castle, 100 Yen Love,...
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Fires on the Plain 野火 (2014)
Fires on the Plain Fires on the Plain Film Poster 野火 「Nobi」 Duration: 87 mins. Release Date: July 25th 2015 Seen at Raindance Director: Shinya Tsukamoto Writer: Shinya Tsukamoto (Screenplay),...
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Genkina hito Says Goodbye to 2015 and Hello to 2016 – New Year’s Resolutions
Welcome to my last post of 2015. 2015 has been marked by more of the same as I wrote about and attended films and film festivals. I got work from magazines and other websites. I practiced Japanese....
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100 Yen Love 百円の恋 (2014)
100 Yen Love 100 Yen Love Film Poster 百円の恋 「Hyaku-en no Koi」 Running Time: 113 mins. Release Date: December 20th, 2014 Director: Masaharu Take Writer: Masaharu Take (Screenplay), Starring: Sakura...
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Yakuza Apocalypse in UK Cinemas
Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld was at many of last year’s international film festivals and it has finally made its way to Britain via the UK anime distributor Manga Entertainment....
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Live-Action Attack on Titan Double Bill at the Derby QUAD Cinema on January 22nd
I posted this news story last year on Anime UK News but with the date getting closer a reminder might be in order (apparently, this screening has been hugely popular): The two live-action Attack on...
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Third Window Films to Release Takeshi Kitano Classic Hana-bi on Blu-ray
Third Window Films are going to release three great films from legendary director Takeshi Kitano this year and the first of those films is Hana-bi. It has been at least over a decade since I last saw...
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Kizumonogatari I: Tekketsu-hen, Garakowa -Restore the World-, KING OF PRISM...
Happy weekend, dear readers! Welcome to the first trailer post of 2016. It’s a long one but I got it done over the course of two evenings. I’ve watched five films since the year started, most of them...
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Hana-bi 花火 (1998)
Hana-bi Hanabi Japanese Film Poster 花火「Hana-bi」 Release Date: January 24th, 1998 (Japan) UK Release Date: January 11th, 2016 UK Distributor: Third Window Films Running Time: 125 mins. Director:...
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Sinbad: The Magical Lamp and the Moving Island, Something Like, Something...
Happy weekend, readers! 2016 is off to a flying start with lots of movies with lots being released and in all genres but so far nothing I have written about has grabbed me as something to track down at...
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The Case of Hana and Alice at Asia House Film Festival 2016
Shunji Iwai’s anime feature film The Case of Hana and Alice will be screened in Hana and Alice Anime Movie Poster London on February 27th during the Asia House Film Festival 2016. The venue it will be...
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Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2016 Preview
The 2016 edition of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme launches in two week’s time and lasts from February 05th until March 26th as it visits different venues across the UK. It starts at the...
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PERSONA3 THE MOVIE #4 Winter of Rebirth, Nobunaga Concerto the Movie,...
Happy weekend, readers! I haven’t watched any films this (I have stopped playing Fallout 4) week but I have watched anime in the form of Ergo Proxy. I posted about the Asia House Film Festival...
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Japanese Films at the Glasgow Film Festival 2016
The Glasgow Film Festival takes place from 17-28 February at the Glasgow Film Theatre and there are four Japanese films that are set to be screened over that time. None of these are premieres and all...
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Japanese Films at the Rotterdam International Film Festival 2016
The Rotterdam International Film Festival has started and lasts from January 28th to February 07th and there is a large contingent of Japanese films programmed, quite possibly the largest I have seen...
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