Following Kazuya Shiraishi's excellent biopic “Dare to Stop Us”, which revolved around Koji Wakamatsu and his production company but essentially focused on Megumi Yoshizumi, a young aspiring director that joined the company in 1969, the sequel presents a somewhat similar story.
Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 is screening at Nippon Connection
This time, the setting is Nagoya in 1983, when Wakamatsu decided to open his own independent micro cinema, Cinema Skhole, and had Junji Kimata, a former programmer who was selling video equipment at the time, run it. The first part focuses on the relationship of the two and the struggles they faced in order to sustain the theater, which eventually led them to feature pinku films for the most part. The second and biggest part of the movie, though, focuses on the actual life of Junichi Inoue at the time, who dropped out of film school in order to become assistant director to Wakamatsu.
Hijacked Youth – Dare To Stop Us 2 is screening at Nippon Connection
This time, the setting is Nagoya in 1983, when Wakamatsu decided to open his own independent micro cinema, Cinema Skhole, and had Junji Kimata, a former programmer who was selling video equipment at the time, run it. The first part focuses on the relationship of the two and the struggles they faced in order to sustain the theater, which eventually led them to feature pinku films for the most part. The second and biggest part of the movie, though, focuses on the actual life of Junichi Inoue at the time, who dropped out of film school in order to become assistant director to Wakamatsu.
- 6/2/2024
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Ahead of the third season's fourth episode broadcast tonight in Japan, the official website and accounts for The Duke of Death and His Maid anime announced the casting of Mai Nakahara (Nagisa in Clannad ) as Liz, the Duke's grandmother who died from an accident at a young age. Related: The Duke of Death and His Maid Anime Celebrates Season 3 with New Illustration Based on the manga by Inoue, The Duke of Death and His Maid is directed by Yoshinobu Yamakawa ( Hi Score Girl ) at studio J.C.Staff, with series composition by Hideki Shirane, character designs by Mitsuru Kuwabata and music by Takeshi Watanabe and Gen Okuda. Crunchyroll streams the first two seasons and is simulcasting the third, describing the story like so: How can you fall in love when you can’t even hold hands? Due to a childhood curse, anything that the Duke touches will die—which makes his flirty...
- 4/28/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
The original 1954 "Godzilla" film may look a bit worn 70 years after its release, but one aspect of the movie is still capable of reaching across time and space to rattle the nerves of modern moviegoers: that famous kaiju roar. Ishirō Honda's groundbreaking film brought its eponymous creature to life with a screeching, discordant sound that sends tingles down the spine, and it's a noise that the latest Toho Studios masterpiece, the critically acclaimed "Godzilla Minus One," aimed to emulate and expand upon.
In an interview with A Frame, the sound team behind the Oscar-winning film explained exactly how they put together the new Godzilla roar, a stunning noise that punctuated the film's first trailer and sounds even better in context. According to writer-director Takashi Yamazaki, he and the sound team decided to create the latest roar in part by replaying the original audio in a space that would allow for major echoes and reverberations.
In an interview with A Frame, the sound team behind the Oscar-winning film explained exactly how they put together the new Godzilla roar, a stunning noise that punctuated the film's first trailer and sounds even better in context. According to writer-director Takashi Yamazaki, he and the sound team decided to create the latest roar in part by replaying the original audio in a space that would allow for major echoes and reverberations.
- 4/26/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Akira Toriyama’s Dragon Ball is a name that you are bound to mention in the context of top shonen anime. Naturally, he is a huge inspiration to the future generations of mangakas. But it turns out that Toriyama himself is not very satisfied with various inspired works.
In a 2018 interview, Akira Toriyama and Takehiko Inoue, the author of Slam Dunk, opened up about prospects in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and shared their thoughts on up-and-coming mangakas.
“Have pride and add a little originality” – Akira Toriyama Akira Toriyama | Source: egames.news
The 33rd issue of the Weekly Shonen Jump 2018 magazine was a special feature celebrating the magazine’s 50th year anniversary. It featured an interview with Akira Toriyama and Takehiko Inoue, who were asked to say some words for new authors aiming for Shonen Jump’s publication.
Toriyama sensei jumped at the opportunity to talk about the time he...
In a 2018 interview, Akira Toriyama and Takehiko Inoue, the author of Slam Dunk, opened up about prospects in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and shared their thoughts on up-and-coming mangakas.
“Have pride and add a little originality” – Akira Toriyama Akira Toriyama | Source: egames.news
The 33rd issue of the Weekly Shonen Jump 2018 magazine was a special feature celebrating the magazine’s 50th year anniversary. It featured an interview with Akira Toriyama and Takehiko Inoue, who were asked to say some words for new authors aiming for Shonen Jump’s publication.
Toriyama sensei jumped at the opportunity to talk about the time he...
- 4/12/2024
- by Aaheli Pradhan
- FandomWire
Fantasy romance anime The Duke of Death and His Maid is pulling on our heartstrings once again in its third season, and with it comes another bop-and-ballad set to orchestrate the ever-growing rapport between the Duke and Alice. Creditless versions of Season 3's opening and ending theme sequences, featuring "Cinematic Parade" by nasuo☆ ( Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie Op) and "Etoile Mémoires" by Ayumi Mano, respectively, are now available to watch below. Related: An Archdemon's Dilemma: How to Love Your Elf Bride Anime Releases Creditless Opening Theme Video Based on the manga by Inoue, The Duke of Death and His Maid is directed by Yoshinobu Yamakawa ( Hi Score Girl ) at studio J.C.Staff and stars Natsuki Hanae (Vanitas in The Case Study of Vanitas ) and Ayumi Mano (Natsumi in Date A Live ) as the titular pair. Crunchyroll streams the first two seasons and is simulcasting the third, describing the story like...
- 4/8/2024
- by Liam Dempsey
- Crunchyroll
Let’s raise a toast to the inventor of karaoke, the late great Japanese engineer Shigeichi Negishi. He devised the first karaoke machine in 1967, the “Sparko Box.” This invention changed the soundtrack of our lives forever. Negishi’s death was announced this week, at the age of 100, which means a century of making the world a louder, more tone-deaf place. His legacy is that all of us who are terrible singers can live out our tawdriest pop-star dreams for a few minutes of karaoke glory. We owe him so much.
- 3/16/2024
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs announced the year's winners of the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Fine Arts on February 28. The two prize winners of its media arts category were manga artist Takehiko Inoue ( Slam Dunk ) and Yumi Tamura ( Don't Call It Mystery ). Also, animation artist Jun Wada ( Ikimono-san ) received the Rookie Award in the same category. Since 1950, the Agency for Cultural Affairs has annually awarded the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Award for Fine Arts and its Rookie Award to individuals who have made outstanding achievements or have opened new frontiers in 12 fields of the arts: theater play, film, music, dance, literature, fine arts A, fine arts B, broadcasting, popular entertainment, arts promotion, critic and media arts. Inoue's reasons for receiving the award were stated as follows: "'The First Slam Dunk' is a film adaptation of the climax of the original manga,...
- 3/2/2024
- by Mikikazu Komatsu
- Crunchyroll
Exclusive: Improv icon Colin Mochrie (Whose Line is it Anyway?) will narrate a Canadian version of the eye-opening but heartwarming Japanese format Old Enough!, in which kids run errands on their own.
Blue Ant Studios has secured local rights to the long-running Japanese unscripted hit series, which was originally for Nippon TV, and is readying a remake for Canada educational network Tvo.
Improv icon Mochrie (Whose Line is it Anyway?) has signed on to narrate the show, which is set for a September debut.
The announcement will be made jointly today at the 2024 Realscreen Summit by Co-President of Blue Ant Studios Matthew Hornburg, Head of Programming at Tvo Natasha Negrea, and Akane Inoue from Nippon TV’s Global Format Licensing unit.
Old Enough! has made headlines over the years for its eye-opening premise, in which toddlers independent run errands for the first time. The children are always under the watchful...
Blue Ant Studios has secured local rights to the long-running Japanese unscripted hit series, which was originally for Nippon TV, and is readying a remake for Canada educational network Tvo.
Improv icon Mochrie (Whose Line is it Anyway?) has signed on to narrate the show, which is set for a September debut.
The announcement will be made jointly today at the 2024 Realscreen Summit by Co-President of Blue Ant Studios Matthew Hornburg, Head of Programming at Tvo Natasha Negrea, and Akane Inoue from Nippon TV’s Global Format Licensing unit.
Old Enough! has made headlines over the years for its eye-opening premise, in which toddlers independent run errands for the first time. The children are always under the watchful...
- 1/29/2024
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Takehiko Inoue’s “The First Slam Dunk” isn’t exactly the first movie ever made about a scrappy high school basketball team struggling to overcome their shared differences and personal demons in time for the big game against their undefeated rivals. It’s a tale as old as time, and one that Inoue himself has already told at great length over the course of a beloved manga that ran in “Weekly Shōnen Jump” from 1990 until 1996 — a manga he would revisit as the source material for his directorial debut some 30 years later.
But this blockbuster rookie effort, which arrives in the States having already become the fifth-highest grossing anime feature of all time, is such a fun and thrilling crowd-pleaser because it uses the hoariest tropes of its sub-genre as an alley-oop for one of the most formally ambitious and emotionally layered sports dramas to hit screens in the decades since Inoue stepped onto the court.
But this blockbuster rookie effort, which arrives in the States having already become the fifth-highest grossing anime feature of all time, is such a fun and thrilling crowd-pleaser because it uses the hoariest tropes of its sub-genre as an alley-oop for one of the most formally ambitious and emotionally layered sports dramas to hit screens in the decades since Inoue stepped onto the court.
- 7/28/2023
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
There was no guarantee that there would be an anime feature film adaptation of Takehiko Inoue’s hugely popular basketball manga series “Slam Dunk,” especially after its successful anime TV series. But not only did Toei Animation bring the beloved ’90s manga — about basketball as a psychological rite of passage through the overcoming of pain and hardship — to the big screen, but “The First Slam Dunk” (playing theatrically from GKids) is now the fifth highest-grossing anime of all time and the winner of the Japan Academy Prize for Best Animated Film.
But it took five years of 2D and CG prototyping by Toei Animation (led by producer Toshiyuki Matsui) to perfect the visual look before getting the greenlight from Inoue. But he didn’t consider himself the director until later in production, after participating in the writing, mo-cap basketball action, voice acting, and score (Satoshi Takebe and Takuma Mitamura of...
But it took five years of 2D and CG prototyping by Toei Animation (led by producer Toshiyuki Matsui) to perfect the visual look before getting the greenlight from Inoue. But he didn’t consider himself the director until later in production, after participating in the writing, mo-cap basketball action, voice acting, and score (Satoshi Takebe and Takuma Mitamura of...
- 7/28/2023
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
One of the most popular manga series of all time––one which ran in the same pages as Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure––has never achieved the same Western pop-cultural ubiquity as some of its Shonen Jump colleagues. Originally serialized from the early to mid 1990s, Takehiko Inoue’s Slam Dunk eschews martial arts and superpowers to take as its subject, ironically enough, the all-American sport of basketball. Borrowing the tropes of teen sports dramas from both Japan and Hollywood, Inoue’s 31-volume saga traced the winding ascendancy of a high school ruffian and his motley crew of teammates through rivalries, romantic entanglements, and backstreet brawls to find their purpose in the game and the pursuit of B-ball greatness. In lieu of fantastical elements often present in shonen (boys’ YA) manga, Inoue’s detailed art and writing emphasized realistic maneuvers and tactics of the sport...
- 7/25/2023
- by Eli Friedberg
- The Film Stage
Inoue Takehiko’s epic sports anime The First Slam Dunk begins with a showdown between two high school basketball teams: Shohoku’s scrappy over-achievers and Sannoh’s well-oiled winning machine. We don’t know any of the players involved yet or what this match really means to them. All we get is the game itself—and it’s one hell of a spectacle.
Adapted by Inoue from his own manga series, the film uses a mixture of computer-generated and hand-drawn animation to capture the explosive physicality of basketball. The players’ movements are fluid and lifelike, with just a little extra oomph added to their more ostentatious moments. And the film’s sound design is enveloping, neatly mimicking the sound of a ball as it rolls off a player’s fingertips and lending a seismic boom to each slam dunk.
The film’s hyperkinetic style turns Shohoku and Sannoh’s showdown into an exhilarating experience.
Adapted by Inoue from his own manga series, the film uses a mixture of computer-generated and hand-drawn animation to capture the explosive physicality of basketball. The players’ movements are fluid and lifelike, with just a little extra oomph added to their more ostentatious moments. And the film’s sound design is enveloping, neatly mimicking the sound of a ball as it rolls off a player’s fingertips and lending a seismic boom to each slam dunk.
The film’s hyperkinetic style turns Shohoku and Sannoh’s showdown into an exhilarating experience.
- 7/23/2023
- by Ross McIndoe
- Slant Magazine
Following the success of “Midnight Swan”, which won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Picture, Uchida decided to return to one of his favorite themes, the meta “film about films” concept, continuing in the same level of quality he exhibited in titles like “Lowlife Love” and “The Naked Director”.
Shrieking in the Rain is screening at Camera Japan
The story takes place in an anonymous studio during the summer of 1988, where video production for home rentals has reached its highest peak. First-time director Hanako Hayashi is in charge, but the truth is, she actually isn’t. At all. Instead, she experiences frequent meltdowns, as in the initial scene where she has locked herself in the prop car, not talking to anybody, exhibits rather eloquently, her directions are vague, contradicting, and rather annoying for the cast and crew who get increasingly fed up with her. The fact that most of them...
Shrieking in the Rain is screening at Camera Japan
The story takes place in an anonymous studio during the summer of 1988, where video production for home rentals has reached its highest peak. First-time director Hanako Hayashi is in charge, but the truth is, she actually isn’t. At all. Instead, she experiences frequent meltdowns, as in the initial scene where she has locked herself in the prop car, not talking to anybody, exhibits rather eloquently, her directions are vague, contradicting, and rather annoying for the cast and crew who get increasingly fed up with her. The fact that most of them...
- 9/26/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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