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Convenience Story (コンビニエンス・ストーリー, Satoshi Miki, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A blocked writer finds himself stranded in an uncanny reality in Satoshi Miki’s surreal sci-fi adventure.

Aug 3, 2022 • Subscribe

Belonging (とりつくしま, Kahori Higashi, 2024)

The recently deceased watch over their loved ones from the vantage point of a familiar object in Kahori Higashi’s wistful drama.

Jun 1, 2024 • Subscribe

During the Rains (つゆのあとさき, Shinpei Yamazaki, 2024)

A collection of women discover that the real pandemic is misogyny in Shinpei Yamazaki’s covid-era indie drama.

May 19, 2024 • Subscribe

Episode #82 (S11E2) – Dogora [宇宙大怪獣ドゴラ] (1964)

Podcaster and screenwriter Nick Chandler joins Perry to discuss Dogora, an interesting kaiju film also directed by the great Ishiro Honda. One part monster film, one part heist…

Japan On Film

Jul 24, 2024 • Subscribe

The Girl From the Other Side (とつくにの少女, Yutaro Kubo & Satomi Maiya, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

A kindly exile and lonely little girl find mutual salvation in Yutaro Kubo & Satomi Maiya’s beautifully animated fairytale.

Girl from Phantasia, The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún

Aug 1, 2022 • Subscribe

The Warped Forest (あさっての森, Shunichiro Miki, 2011)

Three trios in search of happiness find themselves transported to other worlds in Shunichiro Miki’s surreal quasi-sequel to Funky Forest

Holy Knight, The Seven Deadly Sins

Mar 20, 2022 • Subscribe

Nanatsu no Taizai 七つの大罪 The Seven Deadly Sins

Princess Elizabeth escapes imprisonment to search for the Seven Deadly Sins, a group of knights who once served the kingdom but were banished for their betrayal. She seeks…

Yuu's Sanctuary

Apr 13, 2020 • Subscribe

Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu., Volume 7 (兄の嫁と暮らしています。)

Kuzushiro’s Ani no Yome to Kurashiteimasu. (兄の嫁と暮らしています。) lurches along, awkward, uncomfortable, neither a romance nor something else, and yet, I cannot look away. I last reviewed Volume 5,…

Bad Player's Good Reviews

Jun 23, 2020 • Subscribe

Six Pork Cutlets / 六枚のとんかつ

Feeling hungry? Six Pork Cutlets is a baka-mys short story collection that won the third Mephisto prize , so as you could probably expect ...

Nov 15, 2023 • Subscribe

川のほとりに立つ者は

A young woman named Kiyose was recently promoted to the position of manager at an independent café. She devotes her love and attention to the business, but all…

Contemporary Japanese Literature

Sep 30, 2024 • Subscribe

Totsuzen Nantonaku Tonari no Seki no Douryou to Kiss Shitaku Narimashita.(突然何となく隣の席の同僚とキスしたくなりました。)

I am so pleased to be reviewing this book today. Miura Kozumi’s Totsuzen Nantonaku Tonari no Seki no Douryou to Kiss Shitaku Narimashita.(突然何となく隣の席の同僚とキスしたくなりました。) is the first Yuri collectio…

Jan 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Adrift in Tokyo (転々, Satoshi Miki, 2007)

An aimless student finds himself wandering around Tokyo with a melancholy loanshark in Satoshi Miki’s bittersweet comedy.

Dec 10, 2022 • Subscribe

Reviewing What to Do With Reviews

Inspired by Lyn.

The Animanga Spellbook

Apr 26, 2022 • Subscribe

The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 (8日で死んだ怪獣の12日の物語, Shunji Iwai, 2020) [Fantasia 2021]

Takumi Saito plays a version of himself raising “capsule kaiju” as means of combatting Covid helplessness in Iwai’s whimsical pandemic drama

Aug 13, 2021 • Subscribe

Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya (毎月庭つき大家つき)

Suga Asako finds herself alone quite suddenly when her partner decides their relationship is just not working. But her friend Hato isn’t listening because she’s more upset that…

Jul 25, 2022 • Subscribe

まとめる

Bringing things together - How to Japanese - February 2024

How to Japanese

Feb 12, 2024 • Subscribe

Anata to Watashi no Shuuhassuu (あなたと私の周波数)

Readers of Comic Yuri Hime monthly, might remember most of the stories in this volume, Anata to Watashi no Shuuhassuu (あなたと私の周波数) by Kuwabara Tamostsu. Each short takes a…

Aug 20, 2020 • Subscribe

Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist (Satoshi Kon, l’illusionniste, Pascal-Alex Vincent, 2021) [Fantasia 2021]

Pascal-Alex Vincent paints an enigmatic picture of the late Perfect Blue director

Girl from Phantasia, Perfect Blue

Aug 7, 2021 • Subscribe

ことのこと

A Quora Deep Dive - How to Japanese - February 2021

How to Japanese

Feb 20, 2021 • Subscribe

Sumikkogurashi: Good To Be In The Corner (映画　すみっコぐらし　とびだす絵本とひみつのコ, Mankyu, 2019)

The adorably neurotic San-X characters head off on a series of fairytale adventures to help a lost duckling figure out where they belong in a charming animated feature

浦沢チャンネル -URASAWA CHANNEL-

Jun 10, 2021 • Subscribe

あの作品の裏話もー。漫画家の星野泰視さんにお越しいただきました。A Talk with Urasawa’s old assistant, Yasushi Hoshino.

漫画家・浦沢直樹の「浦沢チャンネル」。今回は漫画家で元浦沢アシスタントの星野泰視さんにお越しいただき、アシスタント時代の思い出やデジタル作画、漫画制作の裏話などを語っていただきました。 [ゲスト] 星野泰視 Yasushi Hoshino 漫画家。山形県出身。『哲也～雀聖と呼ばれた男～』（原案／さいふうめい）で第24回講談社漫画賞受賞。著作に『江川と西本』（原作／森高夕次）、『ABC殺人事件』（原作／アガサ・クリスティー）など。現在『日本を創った男～渋沢栄一青き日々～』を「ヤングチャンピオン」にて連載中。 “Urasawa Channel”, a YouTube channel by a Japanese manga artist Naoki Urasawa. This time, he invites a manga artist and his former assistant,…

Jul 9, 2021 • Subscribe

The Pit of Death / 怪談おとし穴 / Kaidan otoshiana (aka ‘The Ghostly Trap’, 1968)

Obscure Japanese Film #147 Mikio Narita Kuramoto (Mikio Narita) is an ambitious salaryman working at a company based in a tower block sa...

Martin Dowsing

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Colorful

A Song I Remember ひとつの歌 Dir: Kyoshi Sugita (2012)

A Song I Remember ひとつの歌「Hitotsu no Uta」 Release Date: October 13th, 2012 Duration: 102 mins. Director: Kyoshi Sugita Writer: Kyoshi Sugita (Script), Starring: Takenori Kaneko, Yuri…

Genkinahito

Jan 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Bread of Happiness (しあわせのパン, Yukiko Mishima, 2012)

A warmhearted couple offer gentle support to a series of lonely souls from their cosy Hokkaido cafe in Yukiko Mishima’s slice of comfort foodie cinema

Feb 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 2 (毎月庭つき大家つき)

In Volume 1, we met Suga Asako, who was starting a new life after her relationship ended, and her new landlady, former idol Miyako, who lives in her…

Nov 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 4 (毎月庭つき大家つき)

If there was a “Perfect Manga About Pop Idols Who Are Adults”* award, Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 4 would win, hands down. We’ve already…

Mar 21, 2024 • Subscribe

Maitsuki Niwatsuki Ooyatsuki – Monthly With Ooya, Volume 3 (毎月庭つき大家つき)

Bing! Bing! Bing! We have a winner of the first annual “Adults Having An Important Conversation Like Adults” Award here at Okazu. Asako is living with her landlord,…

Sengoku Majin Goushougun (Movie), Macron 1

May 25, 2023 • Subscribe

「湯浅監督の近くでやれてる嬉しさがありました。」 – 中野悟史ロングインタビュー

アニメーター中野悟史のロングインタビュー

Full Frontal

Aug 27, 2023 • Subscribe

『戦国魔神ゴーショーグン時の異邦人（エトランゼ）』のあとがき

Heisei Etranger

Jan 22, 2019 • Subscribe

Just Remembering (ちょっと思い出しただけ, Daigo Matsui, 2021) [Fantasia 2022]

Former lovers are confronted by reminders of their failed romance amid the loneliness of the coronavirus pandemic in Daigo Matsui’s melancholy drama.

Jul 23, 2022 • Subscribe

The Fish Tale (さかなのこ, Shuichi Okita, 2022) [Fantasia 2022]

The infinite enthusiasm of a fish obsessive gradually brightens the world around them in Shuichi Okita’s charming portrait of an eccentric.

Jul 17, 2022 • Subscribe

野獣死すべし OST - Akihiko Takashima

The Beast to Die [Yajû Shisubeshi] Directed by: Toru Murakawa 1980 (Thanks eternally H2O) (Also, s orry for…

Nihon Cine Art

Oct 24, 2012 • Subscribe

Children of the Great Buddha (大仏さまと子供たち, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1952)

A collection of orphans attempt to support themselves as tour guides to the ancient capital of Nara in HIroshi Shimizu’s empathetic drama.

May 28, 2024 • Subscribe

The Lump in My Heart (あつい胸さわぎ, Shingo Matsumura, 2022)

A young woman with a growing desire for independence is thrown into turmoil by a totally unexpected diagnosis of cancer in Shingo Matsumura’s gentle coming-of-age tale

Mar 1, 2024 • Subscribe

To The Supreme! (もっと超越した所へ。, Santa Yamagishi, 2022)

Four women reassess their relationships with a series of terrible boyfriends on the eve of the coronavirus pandemic in Santa Yamagishi’s anarchic comedy.

Jun 18, 2023 • Subscribe

The Magic Serpent (怪竜大決戦, Tetsuya Yamanouchi, 1966)

A classic tale of intrigue and revenge leads to revolution against the feudal order in Tetsuya Yamanouchi’s tokusatsu ninja movie.

Feb 24, 2024 • Subscribe

アニメ業界のロックンロール – ウェブ系としてのりょーちもロングインタビュー

The post アニメ業界のロックンロール – ウェブ系としてのりょーちもロングインタビュー appeared first on fullfrontal.moe.

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Dec 15, 2023 • Subscribe

Fire Festival (火まつり, Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1985)

A proud mountain man goes to great lengths to hold back the tides of modernity in Mitsuo Yanagimachi’s poetic fable

Dec 16, 2021 • Subscribe

Dreaming of the Meridian Arc (大河への道, Kenji Nakanishi, 2022)

Dedicated civil servants do their best to put their town on the map while celebrating a local hero in Kenji Nakanishi’s warmhearted dramedy.

Nov 10, 2022 • Subscribe

Itoshii Koishi, Volume 3 (いとしこいし)

Hina is a high school senior with a secret -she’s dating an older woman. She wants very much to share that secret with her friends, she just needs…

Mar 10, 2020 • Subscribe

OZLAND (オズランド笑顔の魔法おしえます。, Takafumi Hatano, 2018)

A snooty young woman from Tokyo rediscovers a sense of magic in the everyday when dispatched to a rural theme park in Takafumi Hatano’s cheerful workplace dramedy

Feb 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Domains 王国 (あるいはその家について) (2019) Dir: Natsuka Kusano

Domains is a thoroughly absorbing drama thanks to excellent performances and its unique structure. Domains 王国 (あるいはその家について) (2019) Dir: Natsuka Kusano

Genkinahito

Jan 12, 2022 • Subscribe

The Beast Shall Die (野獣死すべし, Eizo Sugawa, 1959)

A sociopathic serial killing literature student runs rings around an ideologically divided police force in a grimy post-Sun Tribe Toho noir from Eizo Sugawa

Oct 6, 2021 • Subscribe

What Anime From 2022 Do I Recommend?

Let’s close this year off so we can look forward to some cartoons in 2023

Standing On My Neck

Dec 26, 2022 • Subscribe

Attack on Titan

Episode #63(S9E1) – The Great Yokai War [妖怪大戦争] (2005)

In the first episode of season 9, Perry is joined by Lyndsey Little, writer and artist of the OniGirl comic. And in keeping with that theme of Japanese…

Japan On Film

May 12, 2023 • Subscribe

Amalock (あまろっく, Kazuhiro Nakamura, 2024)

A resentful middle-aged woman’s perspective begins to change when her father suddenly marries a much younger woman in Kazuhiro Nakamura’s lighthearted dramedy.