There was a beautiful time when film buffs, critics, and dudes with strong opinions could gather in the IMDb forums and debate everything from the oeuvre of Sir David Lean to the latest episode of "Charmed." Today, internet critics make their way to the easier-to-navigate Letterboxd. Boosted by the 2021 Covid pandemic lock-in, it's now the joint for people looking to curate their watch list with the cream of the cinephile crop.
On Letterboxd, you can log your film-viewing history, rate films on a 5-star scale, and share your thoughts. The reviews can be as pithy or insightful as a user desires, and collated scores help fans figure out what's the best of the best in a given section. With this much input from peers, the app's consensus should offer a fair reflection of a film's quality. This Ghibli fan is going to look over Letterboxd's top twelve animated Studio Ghibli features with you,...
On Letterboxd, you can log your film-viewing history, rate films on a 5-star scale, and share your thoughts. The reviews can be as pithy or insightful as a user desires, and collated scores help fans figure out what's the best of the best in a given section. With this much input from peers, the app's consensus should offer a fair reflection of a film's quality. This Ghibli fan is going to look over Letterboxd's top twelve animated Studio Ghibli features with you,...
- 9/27/2022
- by Margaret David
- Slash Film
Japan Society is pleased to announce the launch of Monthly Anime
The rarely-screened Matrixanthology film The Animatrix—featuring works by Cowboy Bebop’s Shinichiro Watanabe, Vampire Hunter D’s Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Akira animator Koji Morimoto—screens in 35mm on May 27, 2022. Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, a Japan Cuts 2018 selection and Tomihiko Morimi adaptation, screens on June 17, 2022. Finally, to commemorate 25 years since its 1997 release, Hayao Miyazaki’s mystical epic Princess Mononoke screens in 35mm on July 22, 2022.
Tickets: 15/12 students and seniors /5 Japan Society members. Lineup and other details are subject to change.For complete information visit japansociety.org.
Screening Schedule
The Animatrix – Friday, May 27, 2022 at 7:00 Pm
Dir. Peter Chung, Andy Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Mahiro Maeda, Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe; 2003, 102 min., 35mm, color, in English. With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Clayton Watson.
A straight-to-dvd classic, the anime companion to The Matrix series received a...
The rarely-screened Matrixanthology film The Animatrix—featuring works by Cowboy Bebop’s Shinichiro Watanabe, Vampire Hunter D’s Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Akira animator Koji Morimoto—screens in 35mm on May 27, 2022. Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, a Japan Cuts 2018 selection and Tomihiko Morimi adaptation, screens on June 17, 2022. Finally, to commemorate 25 years since its 1997 release, Hayao Miyazaki’s mystical epic Princess Mononoke screens in 35mm on July 22, 2022.
Tickets: 15/12 students and seniors /5 Japan Society members. Lineup and other details are subject to change.For complete information visit japansociety.org.
Screening Schedule
The Animatrix – Friday, May 27, 2022 at 7:00 Pm
Dir. Peter Chung, Andy Jones, Yoshiaki Kawajiri, Takeshi Koike, Mahiro Maeda, Koji Morimoto, Shinichiro Watanabe; 2003, 102 min., 35mm, color, in English. With Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Clayton Watson.
A straight-to-dvd classic, the anime companion to The Matrix series received a...
- 5/22/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Japan Society is pleased to announce the launch of Monthly Anime on April 15, 2022, which will kick-off with a screening of Mamoru Oshii’s seminal cyberpunk classic, Ghost in the Shell. Offering an eclectic range of classic, underseen, and contemporary visions from Japanese animation, Monthly Anime explores the widely influential legacy of anime. Tracing the lineage of anime from modern-day digital animation back to the days of hand-drawn cel animation, this program aims to uncover the multifaceted and remarkable variety of stylistic, technological, and generic possibilities that have kept the medium at the forefront of popularity not just in Japan, but worldwide.
Following Ghost in the Shell in April, the rarely-screened Matrix anthology film The Animatrix – featuring works by Cowboy Bebop’s Shinichiro Watanabe, Vampire Hunter D’s Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Akira animator Koji Morimoto – screens in 35mm on May 27, 2022. Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, a...
Following Ghost in the Shell in April, the rarely-screened Matrix anthology film The Animatrix – featuring works by Cowboy Bebop’s Shinichiro Watanabe, Vampire Hunter D’s Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and Akira animator Koji Morimoto – screens in 35mm on May 27, 2022. Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, a...
- 4/1/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
The deconstruction of the family as a concept has always been a popular topic in the Japanese movie industry, where the family drama is one of the most popular categories. Yukihiko Tsutsumi tries his hand in the genre, by adding a crime element, in a movie adapted by Shusuke Shizukui’s novel, “Nozomi”
“Hope” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Kazuto Ishikawa is a successful architect. He is married to Kiyomi, who works in publishing and does her work from home, and is the father of two, Tadashi, who attends high school, and Miyabi, who attends middle school. They live together in an impressive, two-storied home, designed by Kazuto, who frequently brings potential customers to visit the premises as a sample, to the annoyance of Tadashi, who frequently finds strangers barging into his room without previous notice. Tadashi in general is experiencing a rough adolescence, and an injury that...
“Hope” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Kazuto Ishikawa is a successful architect. He is married to Kiyomi, who works in publishing and does her work from home, and is the father of two, Tadashi, who attends high school, and Miyabi, who attends middle school. They live together in an impressive, two-storied home, designed by Kazuto, who frequently brings potential customers to visit the premises as a sample, to the annoyance of Tadashi, who frequently finds strangers barging into his room without previous notice. Tadashi in general is experiencing a rough adolescence, and an injury that...
- 6/6/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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Seeing is believe, but fantasy films are a special genre that will push your imagination to the limit and maybe even open up a part of your mind that you didn’t know existed. The good thing about fantasy movies is that they typically have a deeper subtext that will give you a deeper appreciation for life, and film.
For those who love streaming a variety of movies, signing up for streaming platforms is the easiest way to get access to tons of titles from plenty of different genres. If you’re not already signed up for at least one of the major platforms, it’s quick and easy to join, and you...
Seeing is believe, but fantasy films are a special genre that will push your imagination to the limit and maybe even open up a part of your mind that you didn’t know existed. The good thing about fantasy movies is that they typically have a deeper subtext that will give you a deeper appreciation for life, and film.
For those who love streaming a variety of movies, signing up for streaming platforms is the easiest way to get access to tons of titles from plenty of different genres. If you’re not already signed up for at least one of the major platforms, it’s quick and easy to join, and you...
- 4/2/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
Based on Keiichiro Hirano’s best-selling novel “Machine no Owari ni”, featuring a rather large budget that allowed Hiroshi Nishitani to cast Masaharu Fukuyama and Yuriko Ishida in the protagonist roles, and to shoot in Japan, Paris and New York, “At the End of the Matinee” had all the prerequisites of becoming a masterpiece. A number of issues, though, prevented it from reaching that level.
“At the End of the Matinee” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Satoshi Makino is a brilliant classical guitarist who performs at the world’s top concert theaters, but he still is in constant search of musical perfection. Furthermore, he has a captivating persona and is quite popular, although he is not exactly a people’s person, with his only friends actually being his manager, Sanae, and Keiko, the representative of the record label he has a contract with. During one of his tours,...
“At the End of the Matinee” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Satoshi Makino is a brilliant classical guitarist who performs at the world’s top concert theaters, but he still is in constant search of musical perfection. Furthermore, he has a captivating persona and is quite popular, although he is not exactly a people’s person, with his only friends actually being his manager, Sanae, and Keiko, the representative of the record label he has a contract with. During one of his tours,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Koki Mitani used to be one of the main faces of intelligent comedy in Japanese cinema, but his works in 2010s did not share the quality of his previous ones, indulging into too much in silliness and slapstick. His last effort of the decade, however, finds him back in form, with a film that is quite smart and entertaining, to say the least.
“Hit Me Anyone One More Time” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed without being able to remember who he is, and even starts roaming the streets in his pajamas, at least until his entourage picks him up. Soon, he realizes that he is the President of the country, but also one of the most hated leaders Japan ever had, with his approval having reached an all-time low. Soon, his two secretaries, the always serious Isaka and the more kind and understanding Banba,...
“Hit Me Anyone One More Time” is screening at Toronto Japanese Film Festival
Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed without being able to remember who he is, and even starts roaming the streets in his pajamas, at least until his entourage picks him up. Soon, he realizes that he is the President of the country, but also one of the most hated leaders Japan ever had, with his approval having reached an all-time low. Soon, his two secretaries, the always serious Isaka and the more kind and understanding Banba,...
- 10/3/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre’s unprecedented 9th annual Toronto Japanese Film Festival will be held online from Saturday, October 3 to Thursday, October 22 and features 22 films using the SHIFT72 festival platform. For the first time, Tjff is expanding its reach beyond Toronto to audiences across all of Canada, maintaining the festival’s sense of community while promoting friendship, understanding, and exchange between the Japanese and broader Canadian community. The festival has grown into one of the largest film events of its kind in the world and is recognized by the Japanese film industry as a vital conduit for bringing Japanese film to international audiences.
Tjff 2020 also presents major award winners for their Canadian premieres: Mitsuhito Fujii’s The Journalist which won the Japanese Academy Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Tori Matsuzaka) and Best Actress (Eun-kyung Shim); Hirohiko Arai’s intense erotic odyssey It Feels So Good (Kinema Junpo Awards...
Tjff 2020 also presents major award winners for their Canadian premieres: Mitsuhito Fujii’s The Journalist which won the Japanese Academy Awards for Best Film, Best Actor (Tori Matsuzaka) and Best Actress (Eun-kyung Shim); Hirohiko Arai’s intense erotic odyssey It Feels So Good (Kinema Junpo Awards...
- 9/14/2020
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Princess Mononoke
Blu ray
Shout! Factory
1997 / 1.85 : 1 / 133 Min.
Starring Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida
Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki spent much of his early career as an artist and animator on children’s fare like Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon and Puss in Boots, each as energetic as a school recess and as uncomplicated as a bedtime story. From such modest beginnings a mighty oak grew… an entire forest in fact.
In 1984 Miyazaki wrote and directed Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – an environmentalist jeremiad in cartoon form that was anything but uncomplicated. The film was so successful it led to the founding of Studio Ghibli, a made-to-order workshop for Miyazaki’s passion projects. In 1997, a few years after the storybook moods of My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service, Miyazaki returned to the forest with a purpose, combining the epic storytelling of Nausicaä with...
Blu ray
Shout! Factory
1997 / 1.85 : 1 / 133 Min.
Starring Yōji Matsuda, Yuriko Ishida
Written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki spent much of his early career as an artist and animator on children’s fare like Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon and Puss in Boots, each as energetic as a school recess and as uncomplicated as a bedtime story. From such modest beginnings a mighty oak grew… an entire forest in fact.
In 1984 Miyazaki wrote and directed Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind – an environmentalist jeremiad in cartoon form that was anything but uncomplicated. The film was so successful it led to the founding of Studio Ghibli, a made-to-order workshop for Miyazaki’s passion projects. In 1997, a few years after the storybook moods of My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki’s Delivery Service, Miyazaki returned to the forest with a purpose, combining the epic storytelling of Nausicaä with...
- 5/18/2019
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
In time for the 20th anniversary of its original release, anime epic Princess Mononoke will hit U.S. theaters on 2017.
Princess Mononoke is directed by Japanese anime legend Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away (2001), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), and Ponyo (2008)). It follows the adventures of a cursed warrior prince, Ashitaka. As Ashitaka searches for a cure for his demonic ails, he finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and the miners from the village of Tatara. Ashitaka soon meets San. San, the fierce wolf girl dubbed as Princess Mononoke, vows to defend the forests at all costs.
Produced by Studio Ghibli back in 1997, Princess Mononoke is the fourth highest grossing Japanese movie of all time. It is the first animated film to receive the Japan Academy award for picture of the year. The fantasy masterpiece is hailed as one of Miyazaki’s best—with its breathtaking visuals...
Princess Mononoke is directed by Japanese anime legend Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away (2001), Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), and Ponyo (2008)). It follows the adventures of a cursed warrior prince, Ashitaka. As Ashitaka searches for a cure for his demonic ails, he finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest gods and the miners from the village of Tatara. Ashitaka soon meets San. San, the fierce wolf girl dubbed as Princess Mononoke, vows to defend the forests at all costs.
Produced by Studio Ghibli back in 1997, Princess Mononoke is the fourth highest grossing Japanese movie of all time. It is the first animated film to receive the Japan Academy award for picture of the year. The fantasy masterpiece is hailed as one of Miyazaki’s best—with its breathtaking visuals...
- 12/12/2016
- by Ella Palileo
- AsianMoviePulse
A 2-minute trailer has been released for Yukinari Hanawa’s Shiniyuku Tsuma Tono Tabiji via the Japanese film site Eiga.com. After first being announced by then-distributor Showgate back in August of 2009 with a release planned for January 2010, the project sort of dropped off the map until very recently when an official website was launched.
The film is based on the memoir of Hisanori Shimizu which was published as a novel in 2003. On December 2, 1999, his wife succumbed to cancer in their van. It was reported as a case of death by abandonment. However, he eventually revealed the details of their final 272 days of travelling together through his writing. Tomokazu Miura stars as Shimizu and Yuriko Ishida plays his wife.
Go! Cinema will be releasing “Shiniyuku Tsuma Tono Tabiji” first in Ishikawa and Toyama on February 19, 2011 and then in Tokyo on February 26th.
The film is based on the memoir of Hisanori Shimizu which was published as a novel in 2003. On December 2, 1999, his wife succumbed to cancer in their van. It was reported as a case of death by abandonment. However, he eventually revealed the details of their final 272 days of travelling together through his writing. Tomokazu Miura stars as Shimizu and Yuriko Ishida plays his wife.
Go! Cinema will be releasing “Shiniyuku Tsuma Tono Tabiji” first in Ishikawa and Toyama on February 19, 2011 and then in Tokyo on February 26th.
- 12/16/2010
- Nippon Cinema
Who are the finest female characters in science fiction movies? Karla has been answering that very question...
More brains than brawn, the type of strength on this list flies in the face of your perfunctory two-dimensional damsel in distress. For here we present women with fleshed-out characteristics. With brains. With balls of steel.
Where female roles exist at all in science-fiction they are all too often fobbed off as token characters in need of saving. Thrown in to aid the portrayal of the male lead, or to offer light sexual relief. So here we tip our hats to writers and film-makers who dare give female characters some range and guts in the world of science fiction...
10. Rox - Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town
Played by Catherine Carlin
Okay, so the Troma Production Studio isn’t exactly known for its politically correct feminist character portrayals. They’re much more likely to...
More brains than brawn, the type of strength on this list flies in the face of your perfunctory two-dimensional damsel in distress. For here we present women with fleshed-out characteristics. With brains. With balls of steel.
Where female roles exist at all in science-fiction they are all too often fobbed off as token characters in need of saving. Thrown in to aid the portrayal of the male lead, or to offer light sexual relief. So here we tip our hats to writers and film-makers who dare give female characters some range and guts in the world of science fiction...
10. Rox - Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town
Played by Catherine Carlin
Okay, so the Troma Production Studio isn’t exactly known for its politically correct feminist character portrayals. They’re much more likely to...
- 7/7/2010
- Den of Geek
Yutaka (Hidetoshi Nishijima) is transferred to the Bangkok branch of Eastern Airlines. In three months, he will marry Mitsuko (Yuriko Ishida), a relative of the airline’s founder, and though he doesn’t love her, he knows he could be CEO one day if they wed. In Thailand, Yutaka meets a girl, Toko (Miho Nakayama), at a bar and is instantly drawn to her. His relationship with her only intensifies as the wedding date approaches but eventually decides to break up with her to proceed with his wedding. Twenty-five years later, they bump into each other and realize their love for each other remains, but reality pulls them apart once again.
- 3/1/2010
- by simplyzane
- AsianMoviePulse
TOKYO -- The team that put together the biggest live-action franchise in Japanese movie history is reteaming to make "The Guardian", the movie arm of Fuji Television said Monday.
Ryoichi Kimizuka, screenwriter on the "Bayside Shakedown" series, will direct the film known as "Daremo Mamotte Kurenai" when it hits Japanese screens. Chihiro Kameyama, head of Fuji Television Network's Motion Pictures Department, also returns as producer.
"The Guardian" will star Koichi Sato as a detective who takes on the role of protecting a convict's younger sister from the barbs of Japanese society.
Mirai Shida, 14, will play the young girl, while Yuriko Ishida and Toshiro Yanagiba will also feature.
"The film will be completely different from the 'Bayside Shakedown' titles and will take a hard look at social realities and how cruel society can be," Fuji spokeswoman Minako Mita said. "Particularly in Japan, we see this kind of retaliation by society against people who are not to blame."
"Bayside Shakedown" began as a television series that was turned into a big-screen hit in 1998, where it raked in 10.1 billion yen.
Ryoichi Kimizuka, screenwriter on the "Bayside Shakedown" series, will direct the film known as "Daremo Mamotte Kurenai" when it hits Japanese screens. Chihiro Kameyama, head of Fuji Television Network's Motion Pictures Department, also returns as producer.
"The Guardian" will star Koichi Sato as a detective who takes on the role of protecting a convict's younger sister from the barbs of Japanese society.
Mirai Shida, 14, will play the young girl, while Yuriko Ishida and Toshiro Yanagiba will also feature.
"The film will be completely different from the 'Bayside Shakedown' titles and will take a hard look at social realities and how cruel society can be," Fuji spokeswoman Minako Mita said. "Particularly in Japan, we see this kind of retaliation by society against people who are not to blame."
"Bayside Shakedown" began as a television series that was turned into a big-screen hit in 1998, where it raked in 10.1 billion yen.
- 11/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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