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Slice of Life Anime

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Glass Heart (Goto Kotaro and Kakimoto Kensaku, 2025) & CITY the Animation (Ishidate Taichi, 2025)

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Glass Heart (Goto Kotaro and Kakimoto Kensaku, 2025) & CITY the Animation (Ishidate Taichi, 2025)

Linda Linda Linda (Yamashita Nobuhiro, 2005)

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Linda Linda Linda (Yamashita Nobuhiro, 2005)

Yesterday was the first day of school for my kids, which I would suggest should be a national holiday for stay-at-home parents, but then, there wouldn’t be school on a national holiday and that would defeat the purpose. I celebrated in the usual way: watching Linda Linda Linda, a

The Heike Story (Yamada Naoko, 2021)

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The Heike Story (Yamada Naoko, 2021)

Slices of Life - Japan Cuts 2023

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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

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

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

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