Japan Cinema

My blog is a mixture of both Anime and Asian films but what never ceases to amaze me is how Anime has always had a hold of my interest from day one. What I find fascinating is that Anime lovers all have their own variation of what they think are the ten best Anime films of all time. ...

When the daughter of an explorer brings one of four pieces of the mysterious Skull Stone to these unlikely band of heroes, they must find the other pieces before the Doronbow gang does. The evil force behind the gang, the mysterious Skullobey, wants to use it to steal the world! ...

The story of Death Bell is a mix of various movies, with Saw being the more prominent for me, just without all the excess gore and lengthy torture. The film is set at Chang Ahn High School, where a special class of the top twenty students has been put together for the coming exams. ...

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Porco Rosso isn’t about flying pigs, no, behind all the cartoony surface lies the touching sadness of a lost past and a yearning hope for a better future, straight from Miyazaki’s heart. The title character is a grumpy pig who flies a World War I era plane between the two world wars. ...

Ninja Assassin is a balls to the wall movie that follows a character named Raizo, who just happens to be one of the deadliest assassins in the world. Taken from the streets as a child, he was transformed into a trained killer by the Ozunu Clan. ...

Bleach Movie 3: Fade to Black is a great anime movie. The female villain is just crazy in this film and dark Rukia is definitely my favorite of the villians in all three films. After an explosion that ...

Like most people, I got duped pretty hard on this movie. I was under the impression this was a Jackie Chan and Jet Li driven vehicle film but in actuality, The Forbidden Kingdom follows the main character ...

on november the american company marvel entertainment confirmed in its third quarter financial results that the japanese-animated television adaptations of iron man and wolverine will run in japan in the ...

In the first big martial-arts sequence in Raging Phoenix, it’s the athletic Kazu who fends off a gang of guys on blade-equipped pogo-stilts. Let that last sentence really sink in before you continue on with this review. ...

Appropriately, The Five Deadly Venoms is an awesome old-school kung fu movie, easily the best such film I’ve reviewed here. Five martial arts masters whose identities are unknown have emerged from the Five Venoms house, each proficient in a particular animal-related fighting style. ...

The original cartoon of Astro Boy was first seen on Japan television from 1963 to 1966 as which is credited as the first anime cartoon. The character of Astro Boy first appeared in print as a manga in ...

What’s special about this film version is the casting of four Japanese female pop singers from Hello! Project in the main roles, all of whom do extraordinary jobs. Yo-Yo Girl Cop follows a trouble-making girl with a complex past. ...