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SIGNAL: THE MOVIE – COLD CASE INVESTIGATION UNIT Lands In North America This Spring!

Nearly a year since its local release last Spring from Toho, director Hajime Hashimoto‘s latest time crisis sci-fi crime thriller is now making way for a North American release with Signal: The Movie – Cold Case Investigation Unit, on Blu-ray+DVD combo pack and digital download beginning March 15. Presented by Shout! Factory and Eleven Arts and based in large part on the 2016 tVn drama of the same name, the film stars Kentaro Sakaguchi (Mask Ward), Kazuki Kitamura (The Battle: Roar To Victory) and Michiko Kichise (The Confidence Man JP: The Movie) from a script by Kosuke Nishi and Hirose Hayashi. It also features the title track, “Film Out” by international K-Pop sensation BTS, created in collaboration by BTS member Jungkook and back number lead vocalist, Iyori Shimizu, and produced by back number and UTA for Tiny Voice Production. When officer Kento Saegusa (Kentaro Sakaguchi) picks up a dusty old police radio […]

GINTAMA: THE VERY FINAL, The Odd Jobbers’ Epic Final Battle To End It All Arrives This November!

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It’ll be a while before I’m able to get my eyes on the live-action sequel to 2017’s Gintama. In the meantime, the longstanding animated series I binged that year will remain in my beating heart for years to come, and if you have access to a streaming service for animated shows that includes Gintama in its library, consider this an invitation to one of the best, most hilarious and entertaining experiences of your life…so long as you can stomach some occasional toilet humor along the way. This show’s also had some animated films in between, all the while breaking the fourth wall more times than I care to count in jabbing at its own longevity with inside-jokes about getting cancelled, which was never the case. The animated series finalized its run though, and it was a really GOOD one, with fans celebrating the voice actors in arenas non-stop and filling […]

Nicolas Cage’s PRISONERS OF THE GHOSTLAND Sets Sono Sion’s English Debut

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It’s pretty much Nicolas Cage’s world and were all just living in it. Indeed, that makea three headlines this week for the upcoming 211 star whose latest attachment comes by way of Japanese auteur Sono Sion’s new post-apcolyptic actioner, Prisoners Of The Ghostland, which XYZ Films has included in its sales raft at Cannes. News comes just a day following Cage’s attachment to Millenium’s forthcoming detective noir thriller, Kill Chain. Sono, the acclaimed helmer of such favorites as Love Exposure, Tokyo Tribe and Why Don’t You Play In Hell will make his English language debut from a script by Aaron Hendry and Reza Sixo Safai. As Patrick Hipes at Deadline reports, Prisoners Of The Ghostland sees Cage in the role of notorious criminal Hero, who is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and […]

HAIKARA-SAN: HERE COMES MISS MODERN, A Question Of Kendo Over Kisses In The Latest Trailer For The U.S. Bound Anime Feature

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Fans looking forward to a female-centric theatrical adventure with a touch of grit and romance will have something delightful to endulge in this summer. Thus, author Yamato Waki’s classic shojou manga, Haikara-San: Here Comes Miss Modern, has seen its share of evolution since gaining ground in the 70s, and favorably with a celebrate heroine at its core that ideally matches viewer interests these days per the renaissance of strong female leads. The manga’s latest return to anime form now brings the efforts of directors Furuhashi Kazuhiro and Kidokoro Toshiaki to North America by way of ELEVEN ARTS with the rollout of a two-part anime feature film release which commences on June 8 with the first title. The LA-based studio is officially out this week with a trailer for Furuhashi’s film following its Japan release last November and with actress Hayami Saori and actor Miyano Mamoru headlining the voice cast of […]

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Fantasy Action Animated Feature, MAGICAL GIRL LYRICAL NANOHA: REFLECTION, Releases In Select Cities And Theaters This Friday

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Seven Arcs is committing once more to the continuation of its Triangle Heart spin-off franchise, MGLN. Thus, we have the first-part of a twofer with Hamana Takayuki’s Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: Reflection, following two animated films hailing from a sprawling line of games and animated shows therein since 2004. The Planet Eltria is dying by deterioration. Florian family, the husband, wife and their daughters Amitie and Kyrie, still remain in the planet in order to revive the planet. However father Grants Florian stuck down by a serious illness and their dream to regenerate the planet has collapsed. Kyrie, younger sister wish for helping her father and reviving the planet for “far away another universe”. Kyrie with her best friend Iris go on a journey to “far away universe” against Amitie’s advice. Their destination is small island “Japan” which located in the far east of the planet called “The Earth” They […]

DOWNRANGE: Target Practice On A Blood-Splattered Road In The First Teaser

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I’m ready to spend more years of my lifetime gushing over the work of director Kitamura Ryuhei… gushing like the blood drawn from the victims of his latest action horror suspense thriller, Downrange. The film came as a surprise to me last month as I expected the filmmaker to be working on another but the news surrounding this one sounds like an equally-exciting time at the movies. Written by Kitamura and writer Joey O’Bryan, the film hails a self-proclaimed new style of storytelling for Kitamura whose work includes titles like Versus, Azumi and LoveDeath, as well as two North American thrillers – Midnight Meat Train and No One Lives; Newcomer Kelly Connaire leads the cast with Stephanie Pearson, Rod Hernandez-Farella, Anthony Kirlew, Alexa Yeames, and Jason Tobias for the story of six college friends whose cross-country trip hits an impasse when a presumed accident reveals itself in terrifying fashion, courtesy of […]

Period Martial Arts Epic, TATARA SAMURAI, Opens In North America On June 2. Watch The Trailer!

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Folks in North America looking forward to more musings from the far East needn’t look further than writer and director Nishikori Yoshinari’s new movie, Tatara Samurai. The film, which opens in Japan on May 20, is riding a wave of purely awesome and upworthy press following festival screenings and award wins throughout the globe, and with a raft of events already incurred in the states. The film most recently made waves at the Ozark Foothills Film Fest in Arkansas last month and will now take to crowds at the Egyptian Theater next week to promote its official nationwide release on June 2. Eleven Arts has provided onlookers with the most recent U.S. trailer highlighting the martial arts action and drama which you can view below along with some plush new artwork, ripe with all the essentials, laurels and so on. Gosuke, born in Tatara Village (famous for its steel), has […]

YO-KAI WATCH: THE MOVIE Comes To The U.S. In October For One Night Only!

Lee B. Golden III

The rising popularity of the Yokai Watch franchise appears to have done wonders for manga author Konishi Noriyuki. Three years following its proliferation through numerous companies worldwide with the sales of books, toys, games and a successful current two season anime run, two animated feature films have also come into fruition with the 2014 installment, Yo-kai Watch the Movie: The Secret is Created, Nyan!. Helmers Takahashi Shigeharu and Ushiro Shinji directed the film as well as its 2015 follow-up, Yo-kai Watch the Movie 2: King Enma and the 5 Stories, Nyan! and pending third film which premieres in Japan this December. Thus, with the trilogy in tow as it is, it appears that the former is now headed for a one-day opening in North America under the title, Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, courtesy of Eleven Arts by way of Fathom Events, and a fresh new trailer has begun running ahead […]

BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE Gets An Extended Trailer!

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While we’re far from Lionsgate’s forthcoming live-action adaptation of the longstanding manga/anime hit, Naruto, the animated series and film slate are still going strong as of late with the fanfare still burning ahead of the upcoming feature, Boruto: Naruto The Movie. Road To Ninja: Naruto The Movie and Naruto Shippuden helmer Yamashita Hiroyuki directs from a script by Kishimoto Masashi for this, the eleventh film in line following up the epic saga about a boy on an incredible journey to ninja greatness, so those who’ve been keeping up may definitely seek interest in this one. SYNOPSIS: With Naruto as the Seventh Hokage, Hidden Leaf Village is planning to host the Chunin Exams to train new shinobi from the village and from five of their allied villages. Among the entrants are Sasuke’s daughter, Sarada, who adores Naruto, Mitsuki, an exceptionally talented yet mysterious shinobi… And Boruto, Naruto’s son who shows great […]

Get Your Tickets Right Now For THE LAST: NARUTO THE MOVIE!

Lee B. Golden III

Author Kishimoto Masashi’s popular Shueisha manga publication, Naruto, has seen some incredible successes since its release in 1997. Its continued successes on the big and small screen with two animated TV iterations from director Date Hayato, along with nine feature films and Kodada Akiko’s forthcoming live-stage Spring musical in Japan certainly serve as good highlights, and as of last month, director Kobayashi Tsuneo has since added to the legacy with the tenth film titled The Last: Naruto The Movie, which will finally open its doors for select U.S. audiences on February 20, 2015., courtesy of Viz Media and Eleven Arts. SYNOPSIS: The moon is approaching dangerously close to Earth! Unless something is done, the moon will disintegrate, showering the earth with gigantic meteorites. As the clock ticks towards the end of the world, can Naruto save the Earth from this crisis? An official theater listing can be found at the Eleven […]

Ken Ochiai’s UZUMASA LIMELIGHT Releases In Select US Cities This December

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Actor and seasoned stuntman Fukumoto Seizo has been the recipient of much-deserved popularity as of late following his acting debut in Ochiai Ken‘s new film, Uzumasa Limelight. While delivering its fair share of suitable swordplay action and drama, Ochiai‘s award-winning film festival favorite of 2014 serves largely as a poignant character study bearing virtually much more similarity to that of its lead actor, and not for nothing. Fukumoto has spent close to 80% of his life in the world of film, leaving an otherwise unchallenged legacy as one of the hardest working performance artists in his field. The film is still running its festival course with a screening gearing up for the Philidelphia Asian American Film & Filmmakers Film Festival on November 14. Thankfully though, the good-natured folks over at Eleven Arts have the film in their custody and will be granting the film a limited North American theatrical release on […]