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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘#Manhole’ Review – Simplicity Blossoms Into Full Blown Horror

August 24, 2023

Directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and written by Michitaka Okada, #Manhole is a Japanese dramatic thriller starring Yûto Nakajima. It’s the night before Shunsuke Kawamura’s (Nakajima) wedding and his co-workers de...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘River’ Review – An Amusing Time Loop Comedy

Chris Sawin

August 8, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

From director Junta Yamaguchi and screenwriter Makoto Ueda, River is another time looping comedy from the filmmaking team behind Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (BTITM, review here). Set in Kibune, Kyoto ami...

Alleged Plot Leak Of ‘Godzilla Minus One’ Claims Toho Film Has Two Kaiju, Remakes 1954 Original

JB Augustine

August 7, 2023

Movies

Toho’s first live-action Godzilla movie in seven years - Godzilla Minus One - will take its bow Stateside at the end of 2023, so it hasn't been seen widely as of yet - not even by Japanese audiences to our know...

Title And Monster Design For Toho’s Secret Godzilla Movie Revealed In New Teaser

JB Augustine

July 12, 2023

Movies

Toho shook the world and social media yesterday by finally dropping the first teaser trailer for their top-secret Godzilla movie releasing this fall. Doing so, the titan of a studio has confirmed what the agog ...

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‘Shin Kamen Rider’ Review – A Tale Of Blood And Fan Service

JB Augustine

June 5, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies, Reviews

Kamen Rider comes back to America after a fairly long absence, and it’s thanks to Hideaki Anno who adds to his “Shin” run of Tokusatsu reboots with Shin Kamen Rider. Sure, there were a few Kamen Rider series in...

Suzume Iwato (Nanoka Hara) moves in to kiss Sota Munakata (Hokuto Masamura) in Suzume (2022), Toho Co. Ltd.

After ‘Suzume’ Breaks Ticket Records In China, Director Makoto Shinkai Declares That “The Global Box Office Of Japanese Animation Has Entered Another Phase”

Nerdigans Inc.

May 8, 2023

Anime

After less than a month in Chinese theaters, Makoto Shinkai's latest blockbuster Suzume no Tojimari (Suzume) has gone on to absolutely dominate the local market - a development which the film's aforementioned d...

‘Pacific Rim’ Director Guillermo Del Toro Explains The Impact The Original ‘Godzilla’ Had On Him

JB Augustine

January 3, 2023

Celebrity, Movies

Toho’s Gojira is a benchmark of cinema that stood the test of time. Its warnings about the bomb and nuclear testing are a product of its time but they resonate clearly today. Moreover, the film set a trend crea...

Vice News Runs Hit Piece Equating Loli Manga To Real-World Child Pornography, Blacklists Video From Showing In Japan

Nerdigans Inc.

November 28, 2022

Censorship, Manga

From the same news publication that has ran a sympathetic piece putting forth the idea that an attraction to actual minors is nothing more than an understandable sexual orientation, Vice News has taken to calli...

Luffy reunites with Uta for the first time since Dawn Island in One Piece Film: Red (2022), Toei Animation via YouTube

Japanese Human Rights Lawyer Accuses ‘One Piece Film: Red’ Of Being “Anti-Revolutionary, Anti-Feminist And Anti-Democracy,” Says Japan Should Take Lessons From Disney

Nerdigans Inc.

November 21, 2022

Anime, Censorship

Luffy and the straw hat pirates are sailing to new heights with One Piece Film: Red, but not everyone feels so sanguine about its continued success. Joy Boy returns in Eiichiro Oda's cover art to 'One...

From Worst To First: Ranking Every Fuji TV Digimon Series

Jacob Smith

August 15, 2022

Anime, Television

In the late 1990s, Digimon: Digital Monsters was introduced to a worldwide audience and became a smash hit almost overnight. In the course of 25 years, Digimon has given birth to several movies, video games, ma...

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