title: Lupin III

A wildly stylized project that bodes well for future trans-Pacific productions -- but which might have been just as good without being wildly stylized

The first volume in English of this avant-garde feminist figure's work shows her approach to SF and fantasy as personal cultural commentary

Now that we're all wired, whether we like it or not, this cyberpunk urban legend and vaporwave precursor is even creepier and more prescient

Kei Fujiwara's sequel to 'Organ' ends up being more merely unpleasant than unsettling

Kei Fujiwara's symphony of sickness drowns you face-down in its excesses and lingers for a long time to come afterwards

Suehiro Maruo's rendition of Edogawa Rampo's tale of wide-gauge decadence is both delirious and spot-on in its look and feel

Kijū Yoshida's staggering epic of Japanese anarchists Sakae Ōsugi and Noe Ito defies categorization, synopsis, or easy answers

An all-new anime adaptation of Hiroaki Samura's classic long-running manga gets it right at last

Some of the finest animation around, lashed to the mast of a story that goes nowhere

Mamoru Hosoda's weakest film yet, a cloying and sentimental misfire