Hayao Miyazaki’s first full-length feature film in four years, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, is still at the top of the cliff, so to speak, of Japanese cinema this past weekend, beating out Kunihiko Yuyama’s Pocket Monsters Diamond & Pearl: Giratina to Sora no Hanataba Shaymin, the 11th installment in the venerable (and [...]
At least five new anime movies are shopping around for buyers at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Here’s a quick rundown of the notables:
First there’s the 20th Century Boys film trilogy, the first of which is set to premiere on August 30. The sequels are schduled for lte 2008 and summer 2009.
Takashi Miike’s live-action [...]
Satoshi Kon’s surreal anime film Paprika was listed as one of the 100 Best Films by the Japanese edition of Newsweek magazine. It was one of only three Japanese made films to receive the honor, and the sole anime title.
Paprika is a suspense science-fiction story set in a dystopian future.
Other films to make it to [...]