Tag: takaoohsawa

Lovers of Japanese cinema should find themselves in San Francisco during the weekends of April 14th/15th and 21st/22nd for the Cherry Blossom Film Festival. And if you especially love the work of director Iwai Shunji we have a giveaway for...

(Kids: can't live with them, can't abandon them in the forest...) We are big fans of anime writer/director Hosoda Mamoru here and for a good reason. After the man left Studio Ghibli following a big row with Miyazaki Hayao over...

When anime director Mamoru Hosoda drew critical attention with his fantastic film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time in 2006, comparisons were immediately drawn between him and Hayao Miyazaki. With his follow up film Summer Wars in 2009, Hosoda should...

Hello there, little unknown gem of a movie. Where you came from, I don't know. Why nobody has ever noticed you, no idea. But you were a very pleasant surprise indeed, so please invite some of your friend next time...

"Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A" was his call to fame. Dr. Hashimoto Kazuhisa, or How I Stopped Worrying about Lives and Love (?) the Contra Code. In all likelihood, his ultimate goal only amounted to...

[This review originally ran as part of our coverage of Sitges 08, but I revisit it now on the occasion of its BluRay release in the UK.] Freshly off a screening of Fumihiko Sori's Ichi - a partial re-envisioning,...