Tag: mireikiritani

One of the nicer surprises of this year was Assassination Classroom, Hasumi Eiichirô's live-action adaptation of the hugely popular manga and anime about an indestructable alien schoolteacher who will destroy the Earth unless his students manage to off him within...

As winter turns into spring, Japan's iconic cherry blossom trees come into bloom and the country's school children celebrate the coming-of-age that is their graduation. For misfit class 3-E this could mean the complete annihilation of the planet if they've...

A romantic movie set in the city of Paris may come across as, and may indeed be, the ultimate cinematic cliché, but writer-director Kitagawa Eriko and producer-cinematographer Iwai Shunji unerringly make it work in I Have to Buy New Shoes,...