japanese language films
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April Is Here to Shower You With 37 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books
It’s April, and that means another crop of new sci-fi and fantasy books are upon us! This month we’ve got brand-new releases from Gizmodo co-founder Charlie Jane Anders as well as Station Eleven author Emily St. John Mandel, plus tales of magical hospitals and hotels, space voyages gone sideways, witches and plagues, and so much…
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Hayao Miyazaki’s Graphic Novel Gets an English Translation, 40 Years Later
Renowned animator and film director Hayao Miyazaki’s first standalone graphic novel, Shuna’s Journey, is receiving an American release via the Macmillan graphic novel imprint, First Second. Translator Alex Dudok de Wit describes the book as an homage to the traditional emonogatrari comics of late ‘40s and ‘50s Japan, rather than a contemporary manga.
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Godzilla Stomps onto Apple TV+ With New Spinoff Series
First Godzilla defeated Kong, and now he’s going to Apple TV+. The streamer just announced its ordered a streaming series centered on everyone’s favourite King of the Monsters created by Chris Black and Matt Fraction. It’s set after the events of the 2014 film and here’s the logline:
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Check Out the Gorgeous First 3 Minutes of Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle
When Mamoru Hosoda’s newest anime film Belle screened at the Cannes Film Festival, it received a standing ovation afterward — not for one minute, not for two, but 14 minutes. That’s quite a bit, but when the Academy Award-winning director of Summer Wars, Wolf Children, and Mirai makes a new movie, people tend to get…