The anime films of Mamoru Hosoda officially have a new home. The first four films from the acclaimed director are joining 2018’s Mirai and 2021’s Belle at GKIDS, which now has North American distribution rights for Hosoda’s full catalog. The deal spans 2006’s The Girl …Read more »
It’s been exactly 10 years since the Japanese premiere of Mamoru Hosoda’s Wolf Children anime film, which hit theaters in Japan on July 21, 2012. To mark the occasion, Studio Chizu shared a memorial illustration by animation director Takaaki Yamashita and art director Hiroshi Ohno. …Read more »
When you think of the last decade of modern anime films, which features strike you as the most impressive? Japanese survey site Rankingoo aimed to find the answer by polling 10,314 people between the age of teenagers and 60-year-olds, with the only major stipulation being …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda, director of Summer Wars , Wolf Children and The Boy and the Beast , is working on a new film to be released in May 2018, Variety reports. The film is called Mirai , and it’s about: “a 4-year old boy who is …Read more »
For three years in a row, the Tokyo International Film Festival has honored an anime director with a series of retrospectives and talk events based around that director’s filmography. Two years ago, it was Evangelion ’s Hideaki Anno ; last year, Mobile Suit Gundam creator …Read more »
Mamoru Hosoda is back. The director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time , Summer Wars and Wolf Children ’s first film in three years, The Boy and the Beast ( Bakemono no Ko ), premiered this past weekend in Japan and proceeded to take …Read more »
The Boy and the Beast , the highly-anticipated new film from director Mamoru Hosoda ( Wolf Children ) is set to hit some theaters in the States in February, with others to follow in March, according to theater listings. It’ll be Hosoda’s first film to …Read more »
Over the past few years, the organizers of the Tokyo International Film Festival have been adding one of Japan’s biggest cultural exports, anime, to the mix, featuring films and talks with directors including Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hideaki Anno. This year, TIFF also rolled out a …Read more »
The hype train for the new Mamoru Hosoda film, The Boy and the Beast , is chugging along at full steam. And speaking of chugging, the latest ad for the film features its main characters gulping down some Green Dakara, a Japanese drink brand. The …Read more »
Congrats are order for Japanese film stars Rinko Kikuchi and Shota Sometani. It was announced the pair got married on Sometani’s official website January 1. Rinko Kikuchi is best-known in the States for her roles in Pacific Rim and Babel , for which she was …Read more »
Fans of director Mamoru Hosoda ( Summer Wars , Wolf Children ), will be jumping for joy with the news his next film has been announced. It’s called The Boy and The Beast ( Bakemono no Ko ) and is set to be released in …Read more »
Sad news for Japanese film fans. It’s been reported today that legendary actor Bunta Sugawara has died from liver cancer at the age of 81. Bunta Sugawara was most famous for starring in Battles Without Honor and Humanity , a series of films about yakuza …Read more »
As OUSA readers are well, well aware, Hayao Miyazaki retired last year. From directing anime films, at least. For a retired guy, Miyazaki is supposedly pretty busy, working on a new manga about Japan’s “warring states period.” But no more movies, he says. So NTT …Read more »
Last year, we interviewed American anime industry veteran Patrick Seitz about his experiences working on shows like Monster , Hetalia and more (you can read that interview here ). Well, it’s one year later, and we had the opportunity to deluge Patrick with another round …Read more »
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