Preview – Summer Explorers 2019: Manga Comes To Life – Live Action Japanese Films Based on Manga, The British Library, July 27-28
Love Japanese films and passionate about manga? Then the special summer film season, Summer Explorers 2019: Manga Comes To Life – Live Action Japanese Film...
Call for Papers – East Asian Journal of Popular Culture
In recent decades, there has been a huge rise in the interest in East Asian popular culture and the East Asian Jounal of Popular Culture engages directly with...
Battle Royale (Japan, 2000)
A black comedy; a horror film; an action-thriller; inspiration for The Hunger Games novels and films (2012–onwards); yet Battle Royale is perhaps most known in...
Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name (Japan, 2006)
Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name have to be seen together as they make up a complete story, which is also an excellent...
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji (Japan, 2014) [Japan Cuts/NYAFF 2014]
The Mole Song: Undercover Agent Reiji is the latest offering from Japan’s enfant terrible director Takashi Miike . Co-presented by the New York Asian Film...
Tatsumi (Singapore, 2011)
I feel a certain ambivalence when talking about Eric Khoo’s film Tatsumi showing at the 6th San Francisco International Animation Festival running from November 10-13th. ...