Anime Blog Tracker

A Preview of Japan Cuts 2023 (July 26th – August 06th)

Details on the line-up for Japan Cuts 2023 (July 26th – August 06th)

Genkinahito

Jun 28, 2023 • Subscribe

THE FIRST SLAM DUNK

A Preview of Japan Cuts 2021 (August 20th – September 02nd)

Japan Cuts 2021 Line-up and ticketing details

Genkinahito

Aug 17, 2021 • Subscribe

Kiba

JAPAN CUTS Announces 2024 Lineup

At Japan Society New York from July 10 to 21

Windows on Worlds

Jul 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Special - Japan Cuts Film Festival 2024

  Table of Contents Hello everyone, Once again this year, the Heroic Purgatory podcast is covering the Japan Cuts 2024 film…

Heroic Purgatory

Jul 21, 2024 • Subscribe

Kubi (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

One of best period dramas in recent years.

psycho-cinematography

Jul 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Bottle George (2024) [Japan Cuts 2024]

An instant stop-motion classic

psycho-cinematography

Jun 26, 2024 • Subscribe

All The Long Nights (2024) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

A splendid drama that shows how symptoms can disturb a subject’s life and how the social field attains its cruel complexity due to the riddle of desire.

psycho-cinematography

Jul 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Six Singing Women (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

A great narrative, yet one that stumbles over its own thematical fixation

psycho-cinematography

Aug 18, 2024 • Subscribe

July 10th-16th Week-in-Review

Hi everyone. Wow, it’s definitely bee quite the week in my world. Not only because we’ve been in the prep phase for a big upcoming thing at work,…

Season 1 Episode 1

Jul 17, 2022 • Subscribe

Spiraken Manga News Ep 008: July 15th - July 21st 2021

Let's find out the latest manga news with our latest podcast      In this eigth episode, Xan discusses the latest manga award winners, some disturbing news about an anime composer…

Spiraken Review Podcast

Jul 23, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga & Light Novel Release Recap (July 21st -July 27th)

Think you missed the latest title or next volume in the series? Lucky for you, we rounded up the latest releases from the week of July 21st -July…

Behind the Manga

Aug 1, 2024 • Subscribe

A Preview of Nippon Connection 2024

Nippon Connection takes place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, from May 28 to June 2, and there are expected to be around 100 shorts and features programmed. Here…

Genkinahito

May 14, 2024 • Subscribe

Kubi 首 (2023) Director: Takeshi Kitano [Japan Cuts 2024]

Kubi 首 (2023), directed by Takeshi Kitano, is a historical epic that amps up the violence and sex for satire’s sake as Kitano takes aim at the absurd samurai social…

Genkinahito

Jul 17, 2024 • Subscribe

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 1 – July 7, 2024

Total hardware sales for those listed below have registered a 11.90% increase in sales with most brands experiencing positive growth week-over-week. The Xbox Series has the largest percentage…

Erzat

Jul 11, 2024 • Subscribe

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 8 – July 14, 2024

Overall hardware sales for those listed were mixed for the week as PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series both retreated with the latter down significantly by 61.98% to 760…

Erzat

Jul 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 15 – July 21, 2024

The overall hardware sales performance for the brands tracked by Famitsu has noted a remarkable rise in sales by 30.71% week-over-week. The Xbox Series leads in terms of…

Erzat

Jul 25, 2024 • Subscribe

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: July 22 – July 28, 2024

Overall hardware sales have retreated after major gains experienced the week before with only the Xbox Series reporting positive growth in units sold by 19..95%, to end the…

Erzat

Aug 1, 2024 • Subscribe

One Piece

Short Movie Time: Social Circles (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

A highly experimental and conceptual experience that might not be for everyone

psycho-cinematography

Jul 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Nezumikozō Jirokichi (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

The mix of elements supports the film’s aim well, that is to entice spectators to seek out the three films that remain from this somewhat forgotten master

psycho-cinematography

Jul 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Short Movie Time: Hail Mary (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2024]

Nakamura succeeds in making the spectator care for Maria and impact him/her emotionally with her tragedy.   

psycho-cinematography

Jun 23, 2024 • Subscribe

JAPAN CUTS Announces 2023 Lineup

At Japan Society New York July 26 to Aug. 6

Windows on Worlds

Jun 22, 2023 • Subscribe

A Preview of the Japanese Indie Films at Kanazawa Film Festival 2024 in Kanazawa’s 21st Century Museum of Art (September 04-08)

A Preview of New Directors Works at the Kanazawa Film Festival 2024 (September 04-08), taking Place in Kanazawa’s 21st Century Museum of Art

Genkinahito

Aug 6, 2024 • Subscribe

Kubi 首 (2023) Director: Takeshi Kitano, Shuta Takahata [Japan Cuts 2024]

Kubi 首 (2023), directed by Takeshi Kitano, is a historical epic that amps up the violence and sex for satire’s sake as Kitano takes aim at the absurd samurai social…

Genkinahito

Jul 17, 2024 • Subscribe

Blue Imagine ブルーイマジン Director: Urara Matsubayashi [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 / Japan Cuts 2024]

Director Urara Matsubayashi makes a definitive #MeToo film for the Japanese film industry with her sincere and complex drama Blue Imagine ブルーイマジン [Osaka Asian Film Festival 2024 / Japan…

Genkinahito

Jul 18, 2024 • Subscribe

POST VOID Coming to PlayStation & Nintendo Switch on July 21st

Super Rare Originals and YCJY Games have announced that psychedelic first-person shooter POST VOID will be coming to PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch eShop on July…

Japan Curiosity

Jun 3, 2022 • Subscribe

Review: Evacuate from the 21st Century (2024)

Evacuate from the 21st Century 从21世纪安全撤离 China, 2024, colour/b&w, 1.55/2.1/2.4/3.77:1, 97 mins. Director: Li Yang 李阳. Rating: 6/10. Sci-fi fantasy-cum-VFX head trip is an eclectic spin on youth…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

Oct 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Robinson’s Garden (1988) [Japan Cuts 2021]

“Yamamoto is not able to create a composition that engages the spectator with its highly relevant message.”

psycho-cinematography

Feb 10, 2024 • Subscribe

Plastic (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2023]                

Miyazaki creates a moody narrative that highlights the equivocal functionality of music for the subject as well as the destructive impact of not being able to create an…

psycho-cinematography

Aug 19, 2023 • Subscribe

Hand (2022) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

Matsui avoids delivering an exploitative erotic piece merely to be enjoyed by male audiences.

psycho-cinematography

Aug 22, 2023 • Subscribe

Single8 (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

Konaka offers the spectator a heartwarming invitation to re-find, within oneself, one’s (nearly extinguished) passion for creation.

psycho-cinematography

Aug 16, 2023 • Subscribe

Amiko (2022) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

A fabulous narrative that explores the destructive effects caused by the radical misunderstanding that marks the field of speech and the refusal to speak to one’s child as…

psycho-cinematography

Jan 23, 2024 • Subscribe

Winny (2023) review [Japan Cuts 2023]

Matsumoto offers a serene insight in how the Other of the law curtails a subject and, indirectly, sabotages the prospects of a new industry.

psycho-cinematography

Aug 5, 2023 • Subscribe

Kiba: Fangs of Fiction (2021) review [Japan Cuts 2021]

“Daihachi Yoshida succeeds in turning Shiota’s interesting story and fascinating world of publishing and bookstores into an engaging and pleasant filmic narrative.”

psycho-cinematography

Aug 31, 2021 • Subscribe

Kiba

Report: The 10th Anniversary of the UCL-Japan Youth Challenge!...

Report: The 10th Anniversary of the UCL-Japan Youth Challenge! ...

Japan Foundation

Aug 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Whale Bones 鯨の骨 (2023) Director: Takamasa Oe [Japan Cuts 2024]

Takamasa Oe’s social media mystery turns into a satire of living life online as a hapless website worker tries to find a missing AR girl in his beautifully…

Genkinahito

Jul 13, 2024 • Subscribe

A Preview of the Kanazawa Film Festival 2021 in Kanazawa’s 21st Century Museum of Art (September 18-20)

A Preview of all the films at the Kanazawa Film Festival 2019 (July 12-15) in Kanazawa’s 21st Century Museum of Art

Genkinahito

Sep 16, 2021 • Subscribe

A Preview of the Kanazawa Film Festival 2023 in Kanazawa’s 21st Century Museum of Art (September 18-20)

A Preview of New Directors Works at the Kanazawa Film Festival 2023 (September 08-10), taking Place in Kanazawa’s 21st Century Museum of Art

Genkinahito

Aug 29, 2023 • Subscribe

Game of the Month: July 2024

For July, I have both old and (sort of) new games to talk about. One will get the honourable mention, and the other will be the main feature.

Rory Muses

Jul 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Japan Cuts 2018 Film Festival at the Japan Society

This past few weeks I  volunteered for the Japan Society Film Department’s annual Japan Cuts film festival, which screens a host of new Japanese blockbusters, avant-garde films, and…

踊る猿life is kyōgen

Aug 3, 2018 • Subscribe

Japan Diary: July 2021

I started this month with the mindset that I would treat myself more.

IGIRISUJEN (AGAIN)

Aug 8, 2021 • Subscribe

Japan Diary: July 2022

The start of July called for more organisation than I’m used to, but I was determined to hit the ground running. Time was running out to get things…

IGIRISUJEN (AGAIN)

Aug 7, 2022 • Subscribe

Fall 2024 Preview

Move over pumpkin spice and leaf piles, in autumn it's all about anime!

Random Curiosity

Sep 20, 2024 • Subscribe

DAN DA DAN, Natsume's Book of Friends, DEMON LORD 2099, Blue Miburo, BLUE LOCK

Winter 2024 Preview

Winter is here again at last. From subzero days and snowy weather (or blazing summer heat for our southern brethren) to the realization that, oh yes, it’s also…

Random Curiosity

Dec 19, 2023 • Subscribe

Gushing Over Magical Girls, Metallic Rouge, Classroom of the Elite, Classroom of the Elite Season 3, Delicious in Dungeon

Spring 2024 Preview

As the winter snow thaws, the spring blossoms bloom - and seasonal anime returns in full force!

Random Curiosity

Mar 22, 2024 • Subscribe

Blue Archive The Animation, My Hero Academia, Boukyaku Battery, KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world! 3, Spice and Wolf

Summer 2024 Preview

What goes perfectly with summer ice cream? Here at Random Curiosity, the right answer is, of course, anime!

Random Curiosity

Jun 20, 2024 • Subscribe

2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Fairy Tail, Everlasting Heart, The Elusive Samurai, Sengoku Youko

Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat (2019) review [Japan Cuts 2020]

 Introduction Kota Takeuchi is man of many creative talents, but whatever he does – be it painting, filming, or sculpting – it is related to historical or contemporary…

psycho-cinematography

Jul 20, 2021 • Subscribe

A short Fall 2024 Anime Season Preview

Why a short preview? Because I don’t have time to do those absurdly long season previews I did in the past. As fun as it is to mock…

The Cart Driver

Sep 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Not a Summer 2024 Anime Season Preview

So for the last few months of my life, I have left one job, moved across continents, started a new job, and am about to move once again…

The Cart Driver

Jul 5, 2024 • Subscribe

Making Waves – Navigators of Hong Kong Cinema Comes to London 8th to 10th July

At Soho Hotel and the Garden Cinema 8 – 10 July.

Windows on Worlds

Jun 16, 2022 • Subscribe

July 2024 Monthly Favorites

Hello bloggers, it is the feature that never fails – my Monthly Favorites! This month has been a lot of big surprises. I had a record number of…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

Aug 1, 2024 • Subscribe