New 5-minute preview of Mamoru Oshii’s The Sky Crawlers

While millions around the world rang in the New Year with parties and fireworks, in terms of fireworks and Japanese cinema there wasn’t much for the start of 2015. It all began quietly last weekend with a lot of foreign films filling getting theatrical releases but this weekend anime and anime related films make an … Continued

The live-action blood teaser trailer has just been released. The movie will open in Japan on May 29 (under the title Last Blood), in the United Kingdom on June 12 and then in France on June 17.

“Director Masaaki Yuasa (Kaiba, Mind Game, The Tatami Galaxy) announced on Monday that he and Production I.G are running a Kickstarter fundraising program for Kick-Heart, a 2D animated short that will be about 10 minutes long. The program’s page describes the story: Kick-Heart is a love story between Romeo, a successful pro-wrestler, and Juliet, a … Continued

“The electronics maker Panasonic is sponsoring a stereoscopic 3D animation project of Shotaro Ishinomori’s classic science-fiction manga 009 with director Mamoru Oshii and the studio Production I.G. The Cyborg 009 official fan club on the Yahoo! website began presenting details about the project to fan club members on Tuesday. The high-definition anime short, which is … Continued