Flower And Sword, from director Tetsuo Shinohara, is a film about political unrest in 16th century Japan, heavily diluted with loads of highly animated, almost forced comedy. Spanning across many… Read More
Adapted from the Manga by Fumiyo Kono, In this Corner Of the World is an animated movie set in WWII-era Japan, leading up to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and… Read More
The screen fades, titles ascent and there seems as if a page is still left to be written and acted out. A complete incompleteness is its best description and both… Read More
Ancien and the Magic Tablet is a weird but wonderful animated adventure showing as part of the Japanese Film Festival. It took me until just about the end of the… Read More
By Bill B Tatsushi Omori’s film adaptation of Seto and Utsumi (based on the Manga of the same name by Kazuya Konomoto) focuses on Seto – an eccentric, outgoing 18-year-old… Read More
by Bill Blake The year is 1954. H-bomb tests have awoken the legendary Godzilla! Tomoyuki Tanaka’s classic 1954 Godzilla (Gojira) is considered by some to be the first “Monster Movie”… Read More
Shinji can see ghosts and has visions of their deaths. When Shinji is reunited with a childhood crush – Koyomi at Universityhe feels the need to protect her. Their potential relationship is tested when Koyomi is interested… Read More
Erased is a suspenseful crime mystery screening at this years Japanese Film Festival based on the award-winning manga Kei Sanbe’s Boku Dake ga Inai Machi. We are introduced to Satoru Fujinuma… Read More
The Japanese Film Festival (JFF) returns in 2016 for its 20th anniversary with a huge national tour of Canberra, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, shining a spotlight on the… Read More
