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“Sailor Moon Cosmos” is a 2023 Japanese two-part animated action fantasy film directed by Tomoya Takahashi, based on the ‘Stars’ arc of the ‘Sailor Moon’ manga by Naoko Takeuchi, starring Kotono Mitsuishi as the voice of ‘Sailor Moon’ and ‘Chibi-Chibi’ alongside Kenji Nojima, Misato Fukuen, Hisako Kanemoto, Rina Satō, Ami Koshimizu, Shizuka Itō, Junko Minagawa, Sayaka Ohara, Ai Maeda, Yukiyo Fujii, Nana Mizuki, Marina Inoue, Saori Hayami, Ayane Sakura, and Megumi Hayashibara, streaming August 22, 2024 on Netflix:

“…a new enemy targets the ‘Sailor Guardians’ ending the peace they had won…”

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Late Mitsuo Yanagimachi’s last work was rather successful, winning Best Film at the Japanese Eyes section of Tokyo International Festival, screening in the Director’s Fortnight section at Cannes, getting picked up for distribution in the United States, and garnering rave reviews from all over the world.

The story is set on the campus of Rikkyo University in Tokyo and its rather meta script revolves around a group of students from the literature department’s “film workshop”, who are about to start shooting their movie “The Bored Murderer”. As highlighted in the impressive long shot that opens the movie, everyone in the crew are in a rush to start shooting, but the lead actor drops out in the last minute, throwing their preparations in disarray. Ikeda, a stage play actor that is eventually tasked with the role proves a rather unusual persona, while Matsukawa, the director,...

With the rebranded franchise in full swing, director Shusuke Kaneko decided to take his time with offering up the final chapter to the critically and culturally well-received series. Taking a full three years to get the entry out to the masses after the rushed schedules of the first two films, this captivating installment, which concludes the beloved Heisei Gamera trilogy, is included in the massive box-set of the entire franchise released by Arrow Video.

Living in a rural part of Japan, high-schooler Ayana (Ai Maeda) grows up resentful of the fact that her parents were killed on Gamera’s defense of Tokyo against Gyaos several years earlier. When a neighborhood prank causes her to come into contact with a strange egg in a local cave, she takes it home and cares for it. After realizing that there are more Gyaos lurking in the wild, ornithologist Mayumi Nagamine...