Mubi’s Movie Poster of the Week: The Lady And The Beard
Adrian Curry looks at Takashi Kono’s poster from Yasujiro Ozu’s The Lady And The Beard and includes a gallery of more fine Kono art.
Cat Armor
Armor for your cats by Jeff de Boer!
“Japanese Science Fiction of the 1930s”
Jess Nevins writes about Sato Minoru’s The Foreign Farm (1931), Japanese science fiction in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries and “the White Peril.”
Interview with Takashi Miike
The Hollywood Reporter interviews director Takashi Miike about his new film, Shield of Straw: ” In Japan now, films are very safe. When I was young and went to old cinemas, they had a distinctive feel, an adult smell about them. As you got in your seat and […]
“Cross-Cultural Representations of the Female Cyborg”
At Babbler Dabbler, Briana discusses female cyborgs in Ghost In The Shell and in Alien: Resurrection.
Anime in 1987
“1987 was a remarkable year for manga adaptations. Not remarkable in volume—manga adaptations were nothing special in themselves—but for the commonalities that emerged. This year, we would find anime reaching for a measure of subtlety.” More at The Golden Ani-Versary of Anime.
The Cultural Gutter 