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It's a busy time for fans of popular anime and manga series Death Note. Here in North America, director Adam Wingard is currently in production on an English language, live action adaptation of the property while over in Japan the...

Warner Bros UK should be commended for bringing the sword swinging action in the Rurouni Kenshin live action films to cinemas in the island nation. They have faithfully brought the first two fims and the trilogy will be complete when...

The live action adaptations of hugely popular manga and anime series Rurouni Kenshin have been positively tearing up the Japanese box office charts and it's not hard at all to see why. Ohtomo Keishi's first installment - released in 2012...

An enormously popular manga comic and anime, Rurouni Kenshin is such a successful franchise, that it was hardly a surprise when someone made it into a live action film. What WAS a pleasant surprise though, was how good the film...

Nakata Hideo - director of the original Japanese versions of The Ring and Dark Water - returns to screens in 2014 with Monsterz. A remake of 2010 Korean film Haunters, the film stars Battle Royale's Fujiwara Tatsuya as a powerfully...

Religious cultists, yakuza hitmen, a lovely bar pickup, and a speeding motorcyclist collide, quite literally, in the genre oddity that is I'M FLASH!, the latest from iconoclastic director Toyoda Toshiaki (9 Souls, The Hanging Garden). This time, Toyoda jettisons the...

[Updated with trailer embed]Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda carved out a very distinct niche for himself with his first trio of narrative features. Pornostar, Blue Spring and Nine Souls planted the director quite firmly as his nation's pre-eminent auteur of teen...

It seems safe to say now that Japanese auteur Toshiaki Toyoda - director of Nine Souls and Blue Spring - is well and truly back. After a well publicized brush with the law very nearly ended Toyoda's career prior to...