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Slice of Life Anime

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The Heike Story (Yamada Naoko, 2021)
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Yamada Naoko

The Heike Story (Yamada Naoko, 2021)

22 Nov 2024 10 min read
Slices of Life - Japan Cuts 2023
Devils on the Doorstep

Slices of Life - Japan Cuts 2023

Every year these midsummer weeks of late July and early August see the best showcases for East Asian film in North America arrive in New York City and, by the miracle of online screeners, in my inbox. While the New York Asian Film Festival (follow the link to see my
26 Jul 2023 6 min read
The Case of Hana and Alice (Iwai Shunji, 2015)
Iwai Shunji

The Case of Hana and Alice (Iwai Shunji, 2015)

What do you do if you want to make a prequel to one of your best movies, one built as much around the performances of two terrific young actresses more than anything else, but a decade has passed and the actresses are now much too old to be playing the
04 Sep 2019 3 min read
Yamada Naoko

Liz and the Blue Bird (Yamada Naoko, 2018)

Iwai Shunji's Last Letter wasn't the only tear-jerking teen romance to sneak onto Seattle screens this past week. Yamada Naoko's anime Liz and the Blue Bird, based on a novel called Sound! Euphonium by Takeda Ayano that has already been adapted into two seasons
14 Nov 2018 5 min read
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