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World-famous sports clothing brand Lacoste has revealed the first physical merchandise images of its upcoming clothing collaboration with One Piece. The news was revealed on the One Piece manga's 27th anniversary, with the collection confirmed for release internationally.

Via Oricon, the popular sports fashion brand Lacoste is partnering with One Piece for a new clothing collection. The official Lacoste x One Piece collaboration will first be released in Japan on Aug. 2 (Crocodile Day), before a worldwide release at a later date. Japan Anime News adds via X (formerly Twitter) that the merchandise includes exclusive t-shirts, hoodies and caps. Readers can check out the first images of the collection, collaborative art and more information below.

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Third adaptation of Toson Shimazaki’s classic novel “Hakai”, after the ones by Keisuke Kinoshita in 1948 and Kon Ichikawa in 1962, Kazuo Maeda’s edition marks the centenary of Japan’s first-ever human rights declaration, which argued that Burakumin (aka Eta and untouchables), Zainichi Koreans, Ainu and other “disadvantaged minorities” deserve the same respect and freedoms accorded to others, and is set during the Russo-Japanese War.

Broken Commandment is screening on New York Asian Film Festival

Ushimatsu Segawa is a respected teacher in an elementary school, cherished by both his colleagues and his students. However, he harbors a dark secret, as he is actually a burakumin whose father sent him away when he was a child, insisting he never reveals his origin, in an effort to have him avoid the fate of the lower classes. The initial scene, where an older man is kicked from a hotel upon the discovery that he is an Eta,...

Ever since “Dangan Runner” the filmography of Hiroyuki Tanaka or Sabu has been defined by themes such as fate, destiny and coincidence, and how these affect our daily lives. Whether it is the salarymen in “Monday” or the bankrobbers in “Unlucky Monkey”, bizarre events, blended with a certain talent of the character for being clumsy and somewhat pedestrian at times, result in strange and often quite absurd development, which challenge the character’s greatest fears. In more recent films such as “Dancing Mary” Sabu has also (re-)implemented the idea of spirituality within the narratives of his movies, considering how our ways of defining our lives may even affect our well-being for good or worse. In “My Blood and Bones in a Flowing Galaxy”, whose cinematic release in 2020 had to be postponed due to the pandemic, he combines these aforementioned themes within a story which also deals with the topic...

Kiyosumi Hamada (Taishi Nakagawa), a third-year high school student who is about to take the university entrance exam, happens to witness the scene where the first-year student, Kuramoto Kuri (Anna Ishii), who is hated by everyone, is being bullied. Kiyosumi, who has a stronger sense of justice than anyone else, helps her and tries to save the glass from bullying in the wake of the incident.

Sabu‘s 16th fiction feature film “My Blood & Bones in a Flowing Galaxy” which screens in the ‘Current Waves’ program of PÖFF (Tallinn Black Nights) is based on the best-selling novel by Yuyuko Takemiya, the author of light literature on which the anime Toradora! and Golden Time are based. If I could summarize its plot in just one sentence, I would by no means use a single word from any of synopses I have read about it so far besides the names of the film’s protagonists.

Let’s start by calling it a joyride in the genre-themed amusement park. It all begins as a teenage saga, with a 17-year-old dreaming to became a hero like his dad, who lost his life few hours before his son was born. Hero is here not an exaggeration or a product of the boy’s fantasy about the parent he had never met; during a heavy flood,...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– The Orchard has acquired the rights to “Kings,” the drama starring Halle Berry and Daniel Craig and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, Deadline reports. The film focuses on a foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

Ergüven previously directed “Mustang,” which received an Oscar nomination in 2015 for Best Foreign Language Film. Charles Gilbert and Vincent Maraval served as the producers on “Kings.”

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– Lionsgate has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the crime-thriller “Dragged Across Concrete” The film will be released by the...

The 19th edition of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia will take place across Tokyo and Yokohama from 1 - 25 June 2017, featuring 250 short films from around the world. The largest short film festival anywhere in Asia, as well as a qualifying festival for the Academy Awards, Ssff & Asia will premiere Crime Fighters, a 6-part collaborative effort between the festival and Exile Tribe, a group of prominent artists from across the Japanese entertainment industry. Most notable among them is Parallel World, a new short feature from Naomi Kawase, the Cannes Grand Prix winning director of The Mourning Forest and An. Her new short stars Anna Ishii and Takayuki Yamada in a nostalgic tale of lost love and teenage innocence. The festival includes...

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The Blue Ribbon Awards are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.

The awards were established in 1950 by The Association of Tokyo Film Journalists which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers. In 1961, the six major Japanese newspapers (Yomiuri Shinbun, Asahi Shinbun, Mainichi Shinbun, Sankei Shimbun, Tokyo Shimbun andNihon Keizai Shinbun) as well as the Japanese Associated Press withdrew their support for the Blue Ribbon Awards and established the Association of Japanese Film Journalists Awards, (which were held a mere six times). In 1967, the awards were cancelled as a result of the Black Mist Scandal, a baseball bribing case. In 1975, the awards were revived, and have continued until the present day. The annual award ceremony is held in a variety of places in Tokyo every February.

Although the award is not acclaimed highly on an international level, due to their long history and the rigorous screening process,...