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  • Live-Action 20th Century Boys Film

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    Can’t. Wait. For. This. Naoki Urasawa’s 20th Century Boys is to be adapted into a live-action movie with a 2008 release.The story will revolve around a “Book of Revelations” written by the boy Kenji and his friends, who dreamed of a hero who would stand up to an evil organization bent on destroying the world,…

  • PingMag Gets Black & White

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    PingMag interviews Eiko Tanaka of Studio 4C about the new BLACK & WHITE (TEKKON KINKREET) animated adaptation of Taiyo Matsumoto’s classic manga. Catch the premiere tomorrow night at Resfest Japan!

  • Interview with Satoshi Kon

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    Midnight Eye posts an interview with Satoshi Kon, talking about his soon-to-be-released film, PAPRIKA. The ads for this are now appearing on TV, really making me want to see it. Update: And if your in LA: “Satoshi Kon’s Paprika is screening at 10 a.m. at Laemmle‘s Grande 4-Plex in downtown Los Angeles through Sunday. This screening…

  • Resfest 10 in Tokyo

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    Ah, it’s that time of the year, as everyone’s favorite traveling film festival — mine at least — returns to our fair city. Yes, I’m of course talking about Resfest, this year celebrating its 10th anniversary, which invades once again the Laforet Museum in Harajuku starting this Thursday (November 23-26). What should you catch? A…

  • The Fests

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    Today’s edition of THE JAPAN TIMES writes up next week’s Resfest (November 23-26), as well as FILMeX, which opens today. I’ll write more about Resfest here sometime next week.

  • Groovisions Monitor01

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    I’m not quite sure why they’re just mentioning it now, as it’s been out for a while, but the Groovisions‘ MONITOR01 DVD does look great. I’ve been wanting to get it ever since I first saw it, but can’t get around to paying 4000 yen for something so short. GROOVISIONS’ motion graphic DVD, “GRV2283, GRV2284”…

  • Tokyo FILMeX 2006

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    Partly due to the fact that it was launched around the time when REALTOKYO opened, this film festival is one that I particularly love. This year’s installment features among others movies by Thai Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chinese Jia Zhang-ke, Tsai Ming-liang from Taiwan and Ryoo Seung-Wan from Korea. These are all outstandingly unique directors who represent…

  • Katsuhiro Otomo's Mushishi

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    Katsuhiro Otomo is going live-action! Click here to see the trailer for his adaption of the MUSHISHI manga (which has also been adapted into an anime series), starring Jo Odigiri. Link via Anime News Network.

  • This Week at Gridskipper

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    Tokyo International Film Festival 2006 Burton Tokyo You can read all of my Gridskipper posts here (or even subscribe to a feed).

  • Tokyo International Film Festival 2006

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    THE JAPAN TIMES looks at this year’s edition of the Tokyo International Film Festival, which opens tomorrow (October 21). Update: A report on the opening day.