GKIDS presents a new anime film, that is based on an autobiographical manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto best known for Chainsaw Man: Look Back. The picture is directed by Kiyotaka Oshiyama, who also curated the character designs. He adapted the 143-page one-shot web manga that was published on Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ and that, upon its release,…
Actions are rarely without consequences, even if takes a while for them to materialize. One unfortunate or regrettable decision may bring with it an undue and disproportionate response, but a pattern of illegal or unethical behavior will eventually incur some sort of justice, even if it’s merely cosmic and not literal or cut-and-dry. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s…
© 2024, FX. All Rights Reserved. Despite popular and critical acclaim, Shogun may not be returning for a second season on FX, says showrunner and co-creator Justin Marks. Marks told The Hollywood Reporter this week that the production team may have run out of creative juice to expand on what James Clavell had written in his…
Angry Son — the closing film of the 2023 edition of the Chicago Japan Film Collective — focuses on the struggles of adolescence and of fitting in when you feel “different.” Although homosexuality and being biracial should be features intrinsic to our modern society, they are still objects of discrimination and bullying worldwide. Director Kasho…
Recently cinema has delivered several films where elderly characters express their support for euthanasia worldwide, from The Netherlands with Pink Moon, to India with It’s Time To Go and Japan with Plan 75. The latter, directed by Chie Hayakawa is set in a near-to-futuristic landscape in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this context,…
Junji Ito in Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre, unleashes the genius of a horror anthology on Netflix. The anime series is inspired by the disturbing nightmares of the eponymous mangaka: Junji Itō. In fact, Studio Deen adapts the exquisite original material through twelve episodes, that feature twenty different stories (some episodes condense two tales)….
Ainu means “human” in Ainu language. This is exactly the pursuit of film director Naomi Mizoguchi who through her Ainu – Indigenous People of Japan — part of the 2022 edition of the Chicago Japan Film Collective — shares the humanity of this culture nestled in Hokkaido. The film craftily conducts this filmic experience through…
Fire of Love is a documentary film, directed, written, and produced by Sara Dosa, that had its world premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival — where it won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award in the U.S. Documentary category. It also also screened at South by Southwest and it is currently part of the EarthX…
Drama series The Journalist shares the same Japanese title “Shinbun Kisha” of the 2019 movie, that in turn was loosely based on the 2017 eponymous book by Isoko Mochizuki. The film received six Japan Academy Prize nominations and won three, including Picture of the Year, Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role and…
Social media allows people to hide behind an online identity and to become someone other than who they are. If they do not identify themselves either by name or face, that adds as additional anonymity in which they truly can be someone else, not held back by physical descriptors or any past history of behavior…
A person’s vehicle can hold a particular significance, even if it’s difficult to understand from the outside why that is. Those who commute to work on a bus or train may take solace in the short time they have to spend with their own thoughts on the way to a hectic and noise-filled day at…
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