Exclusive: Animation-focused sales company Gebeka International has acquired world sales rights to an upcoming 4K remastered version of Japanese animation director Mamoru Oshii’s 1985 animated feature Angel’s Egg.
Oshii is best known internationally for 1995 breakout Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, which world premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2004, and the Patlabor sci-fi franchise.
Angel’s Egg was first released on video by Japanese publishing and media company Tokuma Shoten in 1985, and, with time, it has come to be regarded by anime fans as a masterpiece that holds keys to Oshii’s later works.
The surreal, allegorical work is set against the backdrop of an underwater city and revolves around a young girl who takes scrupulous care of a large egg in the belief it is an angel’s egg. When a boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in a dream,...
Oshii is best known internationally for 1995 breakout Ghost in the Shell and Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, which world premiered in Competition in Cannes in 2004, and the Patlabor sci-fi franchise.
Angel’s Egg was first released on video by Japanese publishing and media company Tokuma Shoten in 1985, and, with time, it has come to be regarded by anime fans as a masterpiece that holds keys to Oshii’s later works.
The surreal, allegorical work is set against the backdrop of an underwater city and revolves around a young girl who takes scrupulous care of a large egg in the belief it is an angel’s egg. When a boy with a gun arrives in search of a bird he saw in a dream,...
- 5/10/2024
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
A 4K remastered edition of the classic Ova Angel's Egg , written and directed by Mamoru Oshii ( Ghost in The Shell ), will be produced to commemorate its 40th anniversary in 2025. As Oshii's first original Ova work and collaboration work with internationally acclaimed illustrator Yoshitaka Amano, Angel's Egg was released from Tokuma Shoten in Japan on December 15, 1985. In addition to co-working on the original concept with Oshii, Amano was also in charge of art direction, including character design, image boards, art settings, and color settings. The 71-minute Ova was an avant-garde and fantastical work based on the Noah's Ark episode from the Book of Genesis in the Old Testament, with only two characters — Boy (CV: Jinpachi Nezu) and Girl (Mako Hyodo). The story is about a young girl who holds an egg in her arms in a submerged city. She believes that it is the egg of an angel. One day, she...
- 5/8/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Ahead of a July 2024 premiere, the official website and accounts for fantasy anime Quality Assurance in Another World unveiled a brand-new key visual depicting characters Haga, Nikola, Amano and Akira among a crumbling world. Key Visual Related: Slime, 7th Prince and More Isekai Anime Come Together to Celebrate Their 2024 Broadcasts Based on the manga by Masamichi Sato, Quality Assurance in Another World is being directed by Kei Umabiki ( Ayakashi Triangle assistant director) at 100studio and Studio Palette, with series composition by Shogo Yasukawa ( The Executioner and Her Way of Life ) and character designs by Shigeo Akahori ( Record of Ragnarok sub character designer). Crunchyroll will stream the series as it airs in Japan and describes the story: Despite its location in a remote region south of the continent of Felnarc, the island of Clayborne is made up of five small countries crowded together and in constant conflict. In the most remote...
- 3/8/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Beloved shojo manga Kimi ni Todoke first hit the pages of Bessatsu Margaret in 2006 and ran until 2017, leaving such a lasting impact that a third season of the anime adaptation is due out later this year . But there's another reason that 2024 is Karuho Shiina's year, since it was just announced that the magazine will host a new series debut titled Toppu to Beat , her first since we met Sawako and Shota eighteen years ago, with the first chapter releasing March 13 . The story is set in a small seaside town in Hokkaido and follows a soul-searching high school girl named Nike and a boy often absent from school called Nemo. Toppu to Beat official art Related: Akira Amano Exhibition Packs 53 Iconic Characters into Official Visual Crunchyroll streams the 2009 anime adaptation of Kimi ni Todoke from Production I.G, describing the story as such: Sawako Kuronuma has had a difficult time fitting in.
- 2/13/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Covering her mafia action, science fiction and murder mystery works, the previously announced "Akira Amano: The Characters" exhibition released an official visual depicting iconic figures from Reborn! , eIDLIVE and Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions . Can you identify them all? Akira Amano exhibition visual The 'large-scale' show will be held at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro from May 18 to June 23 before being toured across Japan. Related: Kaiji Manga Hosts Biggest-Ever Exhibition, Plus a Crowdfunding Campaign to Make It Even Better The anime adaptations of all three works are streaming on Crunchyroll, along with all three seasons of Psycho-pass and its spin-off films, which Amano provided the original character designs for. A second season of Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions is currently in the works. Source: Comic Natalie...
- 2/11/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Returning for its 30th anniversary edition next year, Slamdance Film Festival has now unveiled its full film lineup for 2024. Kicking off with Oscar-winning filmmaker Carol Dysinger’s One Bullet, this year’s festival will showcase 32 features both in Park City and Salt Lake City from January 19-25 and online screenings will be available on the Slamdance Channel from January 22-28.
“Our 2024 Slamdance lineup is a testament to filmmakers who dare to push their stories to the very edge of filmmaking, making it deeply personal yet globally resonant,” said Festival Director Taylor Miller. “Their raw passion and risk-taking echo our commitment to exploring uncharted territories of cinematic expression. This year, we proudly host the most inclusive and accessible festival we’ve ever had, staying true to the core objectives I aimed to cultivate with our programmers when I took this job.”
The 2024 programming was selected from more than 9,000 submissions, 1,729 of which were features.
“Our 2024 Slamdance lineup is a testament to filmmakers who dare to push their stories to the very edge of filmmaking, making it deeply personal yet globally resonant,” said Festival Director Taylor Miller. “Their raw passion and risk-taking echo our commitment to exploring uncharted territories of cinematic expression. This year, we proudly host the most inclusive and accessible festival we’ve ever had, staying true to the core objectives I aimed to cultivate with our programmers when I took this job.”
The 2024 programming was selected from more than 9,000 submissions, 1,729 of which were features.
- 12/4/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Festival runs January 19-25 in person, January 22-28 online.
Slamdance Film Festival has announced the roster for its upcoming 30th anniversary edition, which is bookended by Carol Dysinger’s previously announced post-Afghanistan War documentary One Bullet and Vanessa Hope’s IDFA closing night documentary Invisible Nation, a profile of Taiwanese first female president Tsai Ing-wen.
Running January 19-25 in person and January 22-28 online, this year’s event returns to Yarrow Hotel in Park City where the festival launched and will showcase 32 features, of which 17 are world premieres, as well as 75 shorts, and five episodics.
Festival organisers said this year...
Slamdance Film Festival has announced the roster for its upcoming 30th anniversary edition, which is bookended by Carol Dysinger’s previously announced post-Afghanistan War documentary One Bullet and Vanessa Hope’s IDFA closing night documentary Invisible Nation, a profile of Taiwanese first female president Tsai Ing-wen.
Running January 19-25 in person and January 22-28 online, this year’s event returns to Yarrow Hotel in Park City where the festival launched and will showcase 32 features, of which 17 are world premieres, as well as 75 shorts, and five episodics.
Festival organisers said this year...
- 12/4/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Nishijin is a district in Kyoto famous for “Nishijin-ori”, an ultra-expensive fabric produced with traditional means. Yoichi Takabayashi takes the folk story standard of the double suicide (between a prostitute and a poor worker) and places it in the particular setting in the 70s in “Double Suicide at Nishijin”, in an approach though, that could easily take place in the 1700s, when the original double suicide story was first presented.
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Yumi is a very beautiful young girl, who, as the story begins, is running away from her lover in Osaka, who has just been bankrupted, and wants to commit a double suicide with her. After the investigation, a kind-hearted, middle aged policeman, Amano, gives her money to return to her mother in Fukushima. She, however, takes the money and decides to stay in Osaka, eventually deciding to become an...
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Yumi is a very beautiful young girl, who, as the story begins, is running away from her lover in Osaka, who has just been bankrupted, and wants to commit a double suicide with her. After the investigation, a kind-hearted, middle aged policeman, Amano, gives her money to return to her mother in Fukushima. She, however, takes the money and decides to stay in Osaka, eventually deciding to become an...
- 9/1/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
While most Final Fantasy games take place in their own worlds, the franchise is still linked together through several iconic factors such as Chocobos, elemental crystals, and powerful summons. The series established many of those tropes early on but not all at once. Summons, for instance, weren’t added until Final Fantasy III. But unlike some of the other iconic Final Fantasy features, summons weren’t necessarily intended to be a major part of the franchise.
Several days ago, Square Enix held an interview with the major figures behind Final Fantasy: Hironobu Sakeguchi, Kazuko Shibuya, and Yoshinori Kitase. This meeting was meant to celebrate Final Fantasy’s 35th anniversary (and Sakeguchi’s 60th birthday) and focused mainly on the series’ origins. Subjects included where the name “Final Fantasy” came from and how the team came up with the idea for summons. If you’re expecting an origin story as...
Several days ago, Square Enix held an interview with the major figures behind Final Fantasy: Hironobu Sakeguchi, Kazuko Shibuya, and Yoshinori Kitase. This meeting was meant to celebrate Final Fantasy’s 35th anniversary (and Sakeguchi’s 60th birthday) and focused mainly on the series’ origins. Subjects included where the name “Final Fantasy” came from and how the team came up with the idea for summons. If you’re expecting an origin story as...
- 7/13/2023
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
“Trapped in Makyo” doesn’t waste any time in being forthright. Right from the get go, the documentary clears that it does not in any way, encourage the participation in, nor promote or provide any gray area about the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo. The cult was responsible for the terror attack which killed 14 and injured more than 6,000 people in Tokyo on March 20, 1995.
Trapped in Makyo is screening at the Sf Indiefest
This drawing of the lines and simple assertion of stance is both informative and instructive, especially when the subject in itself, a cult, could pique and tease the public’s curiosity. Filmmakers are only expected to trust the audience’s own discernment, but in an era where crimes and their perpetrators have been been humanized in some documentaries and miniseries to the point where the victims’ stories are dismissed and their loved ones are re-traumatized, this spelling out of...
Trapped in Makyo is screening at the Sf Indiefest
This drawing of the lines and simple assertion of stance is both informative and instructive, especially when the subject in itself, a cult, could pique and tease the public’s curiosity. Filmmakers are only expected to trust the audience’s own discernment, but in an era where crimes and their perpetrators have been been humanized in some documentaries and miniseries to the point where the victims’ stories are dismissed and their loved ones are re-traumatized, this spelling out of...
- 2/10/2023
- by Purple Romero
- AsianMoviePulse
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