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I sat down with Library Wars director Sato Shinsuke the morning after his film screened at Fantasia. We were already accustomed to each other as we had only parted ways six hours earlier after closing out the pub. Coffee was...

In the 1980s in an alternate Japan, a movement rose to control media and do away with material deemed offensive to Japanese culture. The Media Betterment Committee is little more than a police force that bans such offensive material. In...

There is a small crop of sci-fi films that deal with a utilitarian society where book censorship is heavily enforced, while a small group resisting against this law, like Fahrenheit 451 and Equilibrium. But I think Library Wars (aka Toshokan Sensō) is...

From Sato Shinsuke, the director of Gantz and The Princess Blade comes yet another live action adaptation Library Wars (aka Toshokan Sensō).  Based on a Japanese light novel series by Hiro Arikawa that spawned a manga and animated series &...

[Our thanks to Lauren Baggett for the following review.] The premise is a promising one: in the midst of Beatlemania and the subsequent 'Group Sounds' craze of the late 1960's, a bullied record company employee and a former rockabilly star...