Viz Media, the North American master licensor for the Death Note manga and anime franchise, has granted The Northwest Company a license to create Death Note pillowcases, throw pillows, and throw blankets. Viz is continuing to pursue other product licensing possibilities for Death Note, and it is interested in extending the license to products in [...]
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows baseball team played this past weekend in vintage uniforms from their days as the Yakult Atoms. True to their name, the Yakult Atoms uniforms had manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka’s most famous character, Mighty Atom (Tetsuwan Atom/Astro Boy), embroidered on their sleeves. The vintage uniforms were part of the team’s promotional campaign [...]
7&Y, 7-Eleven’s online retail site in Japan, has posted an article (PDF link) from Tokuma Shoten’s Goods Press The Premium vol. 1 magazine (released on March 26) as part of its special feature on Studio Ghibli background artist Kazuo Oga (translation required). The unofficial GhibliWorld.com website has posted a English-language summary of the five-page article. [...]
Digital Manga Publishing announced that Hideyuki Kikuchi, the author of the Vampire Hunter D novels, and Saiko Takaki, the artist of the ongoing Vampire Hunter D manga adaptation, will attend Anime Expo at Los Angeles this July as the publisher’s guests.
Kikuchi wrote the original Vampire Hunter D novels that inspired an anime video and an [...]
Kill Bill lead actress Uma Thurman told MTV Movies Blog that director Quentin Tarantino “had already written” the new anime sequence that will serve as the intermission between the two volumes of the film in a planned re-release. However, she also emphasized that the anime sequence has nothing to do with her or her Bride [...]
The Japanese website for Kiminori Wakasugi’s Detroit Metal City rock comedy manga and spinoff projects has posted the first teaser trailer for the live-action film version this past weekend. The teaser briefly covers how the mild-mannered, struggling crooner Sōichi (played by Death Note’s Ken’ichi “L” Matsuyama) transforms into “Johannes Krauser II,” the profane lead singer [...]
National CineMedia’s NCM Fathom, a digital theater distributor, has revealed that the animated Bleach the Movie: Memories of Nobody will run in American theaters on June 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m. The movie is the first theatrical spinoff from the Bleach television series, which itself is an adaptation of Kubotite’s Bleach manga. Subscribers of [...]
DreamWorks has revealed that it has licensed the rights to adapt Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell cyber-police manga into a 3D live-action film. The story of an elite paramilitary unit in future Japan has already been adapted into three animated films and two television anime series. DreamWorks has released the second animated Ghost in [...]
The Korean production company Eight Peaks announced on April 10 that it signed a joint production contract with Japan’s Genome Entertainment to make a Captain Harlock film with an initial investment of $10 million. Eight Peaks projects that the total production cost of the film will be in the $100-million range, and that it will [...]
The official Japanese website has opened for the Slayers Revolution television anime series and confirmed that most of the main Slayers staff and cast are returning. Director Takashi Watanabe, character designer Naomi Miyata, and the animators of J.C. Staff are working on the new anime series as they had on the first three Slayers television [...]
The Totoro no Furusato (The Homeland of Totoro Foundation) has opened an English-language Totoro Fund website in its effort to preserve “the beautiful natural habitat and cultural assets of Sayama Hills and its surrounding areas.” These lush green hills, located to the west of metropolitan Tokyo, helped inspired Hayao Miyazaki to create his 1988 classic, [...]
Date: June 20 – July 6, 2008
Place: the IFC Center
(323 Sixth Avenue, at West 4th Street)
and
Japan Society
(333 East 47th Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues)
It’s back like a bad dream – the New York Asian Film Festival kicks off its seventh edition this summer and they’re exploding with the rich smoky taste of pure Asian [...]
How often do you open and save files on your computer? I’m sure that even the most casual users will do it several times throughout the day. Whether it be adding an attachment to an email, uploading a photo to a website, or simply saving a document you’ve been working on… opening and saving files [...]
The Animax satellite television network has posted a trailer for its Ultraviolet: Code 044 anime series on the project’s website. The series adapts Kurt Wimmer’s 2006 live-action Ultraviolet film that starred Milla Jovovich and will premiere in Japan on July 1.
Acclaimed director Osamu Dezaki (Ashita no Joe, Aim For The Ace!, Lupin III movies) will [...]
Speed Racer, the Wachowski Brothers’ live-action take on the classic 1960s car-racing anime, has been selected as the closing film of this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The festival, which was founded by legendary director and actor Robert De Niro, will utilize various locations throughout New York City from April 23 to May 3.
The film is [...]
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