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  • 11 months ago “OCTO: Kanjo Sosakan Shinno Akari” (2022/2024) – a whimsical attempt at psychoevolutionary investigation
  • 4 years ago “Sasaki in My Mind” (2020) – One day, the final goodbye will come. It’ll be a goodbye to your own self.
  • 5 years ago “Hot Gimmick: Boy Meets Girl” (2019) – An exaggerated trip through the mess of teenagehood
  • 5 years ago “Alice in Borderland” (2020) – Life or Death. Which one are you choosing? [Ep1]
  • 5 years ago Food for Thought: “Gekijo” (2020)
  • 6 years ago “Tomodachi Game” (2017) – Are friends really worth getting in debt over? [Drama + Movies]
  • 6 years ago “Kingdom” (2019) – China’s Warring States period in a seinen LA jacket
  • 6 years ago “12nin no Shinitai Kodomotachi” (2019) – a murder mystery gone a different route
  • 7 years ago 2018 Miscellaneous Japanese Dramas
  • 8 years ago “Ajin: Demi-Human” (2017) – What would you do if you’d become immortal overnight?

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A Primer on Generation NEXT series: Who are Japan’s rising stars and why you need to know them!

Posted on July 16, 2017March 13, 2024 by Jed
A Primer on Generation NEXT series: Who are Japan’s rising stars and why you need to know them!
Posted In Actors' BiasTagged In Arata Mackenyu, Hayama Shono, Murakami Nijiro, Nakagawa Taishi, Okayama Amane, Sakaguchi Kentaro, Shimizu Hiroya, Spice Power, Takasugi Mahiro, Takeuchi Ryoma

We’re coming up with the 2017 edition of the hottest Japanese actors and actresses list, but how about those who are yet to be celebrated by fans and the public? 

Tori Girl – トリガール! [Live Action Coverage]

Posted on July 13, 2017October 2, 2019 by Jed
Posted In News RoundupTagged In LA, Mamiya Shotaro, Spice Power, Takasugi Mahiro, Tsuchiya Tao

Showgate and Heroine Shikkaku director Hanabusa Tsutomu collaborate for the live-action feature Tori Girl – トリガール!, based on the novel of Nakamura Kou. The comedy is about Yukina who enters a read more

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas – 君の膵臓をたべたい [Live Action Coverage]

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Jed
Posted In News RoundupTagged In Hamabe Minami, Kitamura Takumi

Based on the novel “Kimi no Suizo wo Tabetai” by Yoru Sumino, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas is one of the latest Japanese Toho drama that tackles the issues read more

Love and Lies – 恋と嘘 [Live Action Coverage]

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Jed
Posted In News RoundupTagged In Kitamura Takumi, LA, Morikawa Aoi, Sato Kanta

Furusawa Takeshi (Another, ReLIFE) takes the directorial seat for the LA of manga artist Musawo’s Love and Lies – Koi to Uso (恋と嘘), a tale about forbidden love and living under read more

Tokyo Ghoul – 東京喰種 [Live Action Coverage]

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Jed
Posted In News RoundupTagged In Aoi Yu, Kubota Masataka, LA, Shimizu Fumika

Based on the original work by Ishida Sui, Tokyo Ghoul is one of the most fascinating and original series about seemingly ‘normal’ human beings but in fact are monsters with read more

Ajin:Demi-Human- 亜人 [Live Action Coverage]

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Jed
Posted In News RoundupTagged In LA, Sato Takeru

Ajin:Demi-Human is a manga series written and illustrated by Gamon Sakurai. It has an anime version (a trilogy) produced by Japanese 3DCG animation studio, Polygon Pictures. The live-action adaptation is under Toho, with Bayside Shakedown read more

Takasugi Mahiro: Of Dark, Evil, and Brooding Characters? [Profile]

Posted on July 1, 2017March 13, 2024 by Jed
Takasugi Mahiro: Of Dark, Evil, and Brooding Characters? [Profile]
Posted In Actors' BiasTagged In Spice Power, Takasugi Mahiro

It took more than two years before Takasugi Mahiro (高杉真宙) resumes movie acting in Nakagawa Taishi’s starrer Re: LIFE. His 2014 movies, Bon Lin and The World of Kanako gave movie read more

Yamazaki Kento’s movie Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures targets Swiss and Canadian Film Festivals + World Premiere is set July 2!

Posted on July 1, 2017October 2, 2019 by Jed
Yamazaki Kento’s movie Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures targets Swiss and Canadian Film Festivals + World Premiere is set July 2!
Posted In News RoundupTagged In Stardust, Yamazaki Kento

Yamazaki Kento’s much-anticipated LA Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures: Diamond Is Unbreakable: Chapter 1 is set to premiere tomorrow, July 2 at 17th Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival. The Asahi Shimbun reported that despite read more

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