'Oh My Goddess!': Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel November 21, 2015
Lightweight and frivolous as 'Oh My Goddess!' may be, those qualities might well also be what guarantee it can be reissued across the years and find an audience
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Natsume Ono's 'not simple': Human Ruins October 20, 2017
The creator of 'ACCA: 13' and 'House Of Five Leaves' also gave us this haunting story of a young man thrown onto life's scrap heap
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Takeshi Kitano's 'Violent Cop': Contents Under Pressure October 11, 2017
'Beat' Takeshi Kitano's first outing as director remains among his best movies -- and also among his most nihilistic and unforgiving
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'Neo Yokio': Rising Below Badness October 5, 2017
It's not good, to be sure -- but maybe being its own special kind of bad is more valuable than we think
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'Blade Runner Black Out 2022': Dangerous Days, In Brief September 29, 2017
It's to 'Blade Runner' as 'The Animatrix' was to 'The Matrix', but to fine (if abbreviated) effect -- and maybe it'll be the first of more
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Victor Santos's 'Rashōmon': Edo Noir September 25, 2017
A clever and inventive retelling of three classic Japanese samurai-era tales, channeled through detective-noir sensibilities
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Seijun Suzuki's 'Taishō Trilogy': Erotic, Grotesque, Romantic September 18, 2017
Japan's Roaring Twenties are both backdrop and stage for these three excursions into the delirious, the decadent, and the surreal
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Japan Roundup: September 18, 2017 September 18, 2017
Shinichiro Watanabe brings us a 'Blade Runner' short; the, er, brilliant 'Land Of The Lustrous' hits the small screen; and Kar-Wai Wong has an Amazon series in the works
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Japan Roundup: September 11, 2017 September 11, 2017
'Tatami Galaxy' comes to Crunchyroll; 'Funeral Parade of Roses' lands on Blu-ray after a 4K restoration; and a live-action 'Hyouka' is set to drop
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Japan Roundup: September 5, 2017 September 5, 2017
'Blade Of The Immortal' English trailer; Urasawa's 'Monster' isn't coming back any time soon; 'IT' director still set to helm 'Robotech'
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'Haibane Renmei': The Kids In God's Waiting Room September 2, 2017
An allegory, wrapped in a mystery, served up as a children's tale
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