'Otaku no Video': Geeks4Life July 2, 2016
GAINAX's satire/mockumentary is fascinating as a time capsule from its moment in fandom history, but most of its insights are inadvertent -- that is, when it's not just being downright cruel
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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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