PAPRIKA trailer

Click here to see the exciting trailer for the new film by Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers), Paprika. Watching this …

New Anime at the Egyptian

Roughly a month from now, on Saturday March 31st, the American Cinematheque and The Japan Foundation are presenting a double bill of two …

Stylistic Evolution in Crayon Shin-chan

My favorite anime critic, Ben Ettinger, recently wrote a piece about the long-running Japanese animated series CRAYON SHIN-CHAN and how …

Studio 4°C’s TEKKON KINKURITO

The upcoming feature TEKKON KINKURITO, scheduled for Japanese release in December 2006, is produced by Studio 4°C, the Japanese …

Classic Japanese Animation

Check out these two examples of super-rare (and perhaps, unintentionally funny) Japanese cartoons from the first half of the 20th …

Eiko Tanaka Interview

MIDNIGHT EYE has this interview with Eiko Tanaka, co-founder and president of Japan’s Studio 4°C, the company that produced the …

Independent Japanese Animation

Last month I sung the praises of Benjamin Ettinger’s anime blog AniPages Daily, but it’s worth doing again. During the past couple weeks, …

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