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The Look Back anime movie, based on the critically acclaimed one-shot manga by Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto, will very shortly make its East Coast premiere at the 2024 Japan Cuts Film Festival in New York City. The film festival will also serve as the international premiere for the live-action Blue Period movie.

Per a press release, the Japan Cuts Film Festival will screen the animated Look Back movie as well as the live-action Blue Period movie at the Japan Society in New York. Look Back will be screened on July 14, 2024, just two weeks after the film makes its domestic debut in Japan on June 28. The 2024 Blue Period movie will premiere in North America on July 13, 2024, before even its public Japanese release on Aug. 9.

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Blue Period , an art-themed drama manga by Tsubasa Yamaguchi, is being adapted into a live-action film that will hit Japanese theaters on August 9, 2024. Kentaro Hagiwara directs the movie adaptation, Reiko Yoshida provides the script, Yuuki “Yaffle” Kojima provides the music, and Warner Bros. Pictures distributes the film. The cast includes: Gordon Maeda as Yatora Yaguchi Fumiya Takahashi as Ryuji Ayukawa Rihito Itagaki as Yotasuke Takahashi Hiyori Sakurada as Maru Mori Related: Blue Period Teams Up with Fashion Brand Burberry for a Chic Collab The original Blue Period manga has been serialized since 2017 in Kodansha's Monthly Afternoon seinen manga magazine, and a total of 15 collected volumes for the series have been published in Japan. The series has previously been adapted into a TV anime in 2021 and a stage-play in 2022. An English language version of the manga is also available from Kodansha USA, who describe the story as follows: Winner of the 2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize!

The Japan Academy Film Prize Association held the 47th edition of its awards ceremony on March 8, 2024. The nominees are selected by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association of industry professionals from the pool of film releases between January 1 and December 31, 2023 which must have screened in Tokyo cinemas.

Following its success at the recent Blue Ribbon Awards and leading with 12 nominations, Toho Studios' and Takashi Yamazaki's kaiju cinema masterpiece “Godzilla Minus One” takes top honours winning Picture of the Year and a slew of technical awards. Sakura Ando cements her place as one of Japan's top actresses securing both awards for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (for “Monster”) as well as Supporting Role (for “Godzilla Minus One”).

The full list of winners is described below.

Picture of the Year

Monster

Godzilla Minus One

Mom, Is That You?!

September 1923

Perfect Days

Animation of the Year

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To western eyes, there is a dichotomy in Japanese cuisine of the finest, natural, raw ingredients cooked to a slow process weighed against the overly colourful, artificial world of processed and convenience food, although all are usually delicious. And this dichotomy is worked into the story of Shogo Kusano’s manga adaptation “Bitter Sweet”.

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Maki (Haruna Kawaguchi) is an advertising exec with a vegetable phobia. Unlucky in love and work, she binges on supplements and alcohol to get her through the day. After another drunken night in a bar, she has a chance encounter with Nagisa (Kento Hayashi), a mild-mannered high school art teacher, vegetarian and homosexual. With Maki passed out, he offers to take her home and cook a delicious, healthy breakfast. Somewhat confused as to how she has awoken, Maki takes a shine to Nagisa, and with her lease about to expire,...

Based on the popular Japanese series ‘Tokyo Ghoul‘, written and illustrated by Sui Ishida, a live-action film titled Tokyo Ghoul was released in 2017. Tokyo Ghoul introduced us to a college student, Ken Kaneki. He transformed into half human and half ghoul after organ transplant, leading him to the moral conundrum to act on his ghoul vices. ‘Tokyo Ghoul S’ takes the story further in the sequel that is slated to be released on July 19, 2019.

The trailer features a host of familiar faces, other than the protagonist Kaneki Ken, that includes Shunya Shiraishi as Nishiki Nishio, Hiyori Sakurada as Hinami Fueguchi, Nobuyuki Suzuki as Kotaro Amon. Another highlight is the appearance of Matsuda [served as animation director for One Piece Film: Gold] as Shū Tsukiyama, who desperately wants to eat Kaneki. Maika Yamamoto will be replacing Fumika Shimizu in her role as Tōka Kirishima.

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Live-action anime adaptions have an interesting history to say the least. They can be great but some have been rather problematic (Dragonball Evolution). One of the latest franchises to receive the live-action treatment is Tokyo Ghoul so the question is: Where does it stand among adaptions?

Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality where ghouls exist among humans. Ghouls can only survive by feeding on human flesh so because of this, they have to hide themselves in order to avoid capture by the authorities. The story centers on average college student, Ken Kaneki, who is attacked by his date who turns out to be a ghoul. Unfortunately, surviving this may not have been a blessing as Kaneki is transformed into a half-ghoul as a...

Stars: Masataka Kubota, Fumika Shimizu, Nobuyuki Suzuki, Hiyori Sakurada, Yu Aoi, Shoko Aida, Kenta Hamano, Kunio Murai | Written by Ichiro Kusuno | Directed by Kentaro Hagiwara

Live-action anime adaptions have an interesting history to say the least. They can be great (Death Note, the Japanese movies) but some have been rather problematic (Dragonball Evolution). One of the latest franchises to receive the live-action treatment is Tokyo Ghoul so the question is: Where does it stand among adaptions?

Tokyo Ghoul is set in an alternate reality where ghouls exist among humans. Ghouls can only survive by feeding on human flesh so because of this, they have to hide themselves in order to avoid capture by the authorities. The story centers on average college student, Ken Kaneki, who is attacked by his date who turns out to be a ghoul. Unfortunately, surviving this may not have been a blessing as Kaneki is transformed...

Tony Sokol Feb 25, 2019

Hungry dead things come back to life in sequel to live action adaptation of anime series Tokyo Ghoul.

The Tokyo Ghoul live-action sequel is coming to life as the film's official Twitter confirmed a July 19 release date and new casting and. Nana Mori will play Yuriko Kosaka, who was played by Seika Furuhata in the 2017 live action adaption. Mai Kiryu joins the cast as Kimi Nishino. Distributor Shochiku has not yet released an official title for the sequel, which is tentatively being called Tokyo Ghoul 2.

Directed by Kentarō Hagiwara, the live-action Tokyo Ghoul film was released in Japan on July 29, 2017. It had its world premiere during Anime Expo 2017, and had a limited theatrical run from Funimation, which licensed the film for a Blu-ray and DVD release. Tokyo Ghoul starred Masataka Kubota as protagonist, Ken Kaneki, the first half-human, half-ghoul hybrid. Fumika Shimizu was the heroine, Tōka Kirishima.