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Camera Japan Review: SHORT PEACE Has Great Shorts But No Peace

(Otomo Katsuhiro once again searches for beauty in violence and destruction, and this time he has brought some friends...) Seeing anime on a big screen is always a special affair in the Netherlands, and there are only a few...

The Live Action AKIRA Isn't Dead After All

It aint dead yet.The (failed) progress of a Hollywood adaptation of Otomo Katsuhiro's manga and subsequent anime feature Akira has been well documented over the years and its many fits and starts and now it appears to be back under...

Teaser For Otomo-Curated Anthology SHORT PEACE

While Otomo Katsuhiro will always be best known as the director of Akira - based in turn on his own original manga - he has never allowed that one work to define him, constantly moving on with other projects -...

First Teaser For Otomo's Short Anime COMBUSTIBLE

An old fan favorite has cracked the Oscar shortlist for Best Animated Short with Akira helmer Otomo Katsuhiro in the running with his short film Combustible. The story of an Edo era firefighter and his childhood love reunited in the...