Animation co-productions between Japanese media companies and their Asian counterparts were once few and far between, but in the past decade, with the rapid rise of animation industries in China and South Korea, the pace has picked up.
Indeed, FilMart is playing host to an animation panel March 13 that explored the advantages of cross-border collaboration.
Still, given the huge worldwide demand for animated IP, fueled by Netflix, Crunchyroll and other streamers, it could be faster. Industry observers have cited various barriers to Asian animation co-productions, including political, structural, legal and cultural issues.
In China especially, where the appetite for Japanese and other foreign animation once seemed unlimited, connections with the Japanese anime industry have become strained, if not severed.
One reason is a 2020 law aimed at protecting minors that bans anyone under 16 from owning a streaming account and prohibits audio-visual content with “obscenity, pornography, violence, cults, superstitions, gambling, inducements to suicide,...
Indeed, FilMart is playing host to an animation panel March 13 that explored the advantages of cross-border collaboration.
Still, given the huge worldwide demand for animated IP, fueled by Netflix, Crunchyroll and other streamers, it could be faster. Industry observers have cited various barriers to Asian animation co-productions, including political, structural, legal and cultural issues.
In China especially, where the appetite for Japanese and other foreign animation once seemed unlimited, connections with the Japanese anime industry have become strained, if not severed.
One reason is a 2020 law aimed at protecting minors that bans anyone under 16 from owning a streaming account and prohibits audio-visual content with “obscenity, pornography, violence, cults, superstitions, gambling, inducements to suicide,...
- 3/16/2024
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
In many respects, the ‘80s are highlighted as a boom period for anime, something perhaps unwittingly foretold by Mobile Suit Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino in his famous “Anime New Century Declaration” — a promo event for the “Ms Gundam” compilation movie “Mobile Suit Gundam 1” that unexpectedly drew a crowd numbering in the thousands. The event was emblematic of that coming explosion — anime production reaching newfound scale, finding larger audiences in turn, and maturing as both a medium and an industry. It would be a decade that saw more confident spending, bigger original productions, and a much deeper roster as new creators.
In a retrospective piece about the moment, “Anime: A History” author Jonathan Clements wrote that while Tomino would become a figurehead, his “new world order” would belong to the next generation. It would be a dynamic new age defined by works like the famous Daicon III & IV Opening Animations, made...
In a retrospective piece about the moment, “Anime: A History” author Jonathan Clements wrote that while Tomino would become a figurehead, his “new world order” would belong to the next generation. It would be a dynamic new age defined by works like the famous Daicon III & IV Opening Animations, made...
- 8/17/2023
- by Kambole Campbell
- Indiewire
I saw "Spirited Away" for the first time as a child via a rental DVD in a New Hampshire farmhouse buried in snow. I was so taken aback that I had to see it again immediately. This time I demanded that my parents join me. Early in the film, when the heroine Chihiro is threatened by a mysterious frog man, her friend Haku traps him in a magic bubble. "It's a Pokemon!" my mother cried. "He's in a Pokeball!" The visuals of "Spirited Away" had so discombobulated my family that they could only grasp at reference points. Critics were similarly taken aback when the film came to the United States in 2002. Nigel Andrews wrote in the Financial Times that "Spirited Away" is a film that "sums up all existence and gives us a mythology good for every society, amoebal, animal or human, that ever lived."
In the years since it's...
In the years since it's...
- 11/22/2022
- by Adam Wescott
- Slash Film
“Lord Buddha is against killing, under any circumstances.”
The 1984 Martial Arts Epic The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter will be available on Blu-ray April 5th from Arrow Video. It can be ordered in advance Here
After one of its lead actors (cherub-faced actin icon Alexander Fu Sheng) unexpectedly died midway through production, master director Lau Kar-leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) retooled his latest martial arts epic, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, as the ultimate action spectacular in tribute to the fallen star.
Loosely based upon the legendary Yang dynasty chronicled in Chinese folklore, the film starts as the family patriarch and all but two of his sons are brutally wiped out in a bloody battle. One surviving son (Fu Sheng) returns to his mother and two sisters, deeply traumatized; the other (Gordon Liu) escapes and joins a nearby monastery while in hiding. Once he learns his sister (Kara Hui) has been captured by their enemies,...
The 1984 Martial Arts Epic The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter will be available on Blu-ray April 5th from Arrow Video. It can be ordered in advance Here
After one of its lead actors (cherub-faced actin icon Alexander Fu Sheng) unexpectedly died midway through production, master director Lau Kar-leung (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin) retooled his latest martial arts epic, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter, as the ultimate action spectacular in tribute to the fallen star.
Loosely based upon the legendary Yang dynasty chronicled in Chinese folklore, the film starts as the family patriarch and all but two of his sons are brutally wiped out in a bloody battle. One surviving son (Fu Sheng) returns to his mother and two sisters, deeply traumatized; the other (Gordon Liu) escapes and joins a nearby monastery while in hiding. Once he learns his sister (Kara Hui) has been captured by their enemies,...
- 3/28/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Daimajin Trilogy will be available on Blu-ray July 27th from Arrow Video
The Daimajin Trilogy saw Daieis Kyoto studios bringing its own iconic movie monster to life in a unique but short-lived series that transplants the Golem legend to Japans Warring States period of the late-16th century.
In Daimajin, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, the young son and daughter of the benevolent feudal lord Hanabusa flee to the mountains when their parents are slain by the treacherous usurper Odate. Ten years later, when the elderly priestess who has harbored them is also murdered, the rage of the slumbering ancient god that lies beneath the crumbling giant stone idol hidden deep in the forests in the mountains is invoked. In Return of Daimajin, Kenji Misumi brings his usual stylistic flourish, as the wrathful deity is roused from his new home on an island in the middle of a lake by...
The Daimajin Trilogy saw Daieis Kyoto studios bringing its own iconic movie monster to life in a unique but short-lived series that transplants the Golem legend to Japans Warring States period of the late-16th century.
In Daimajin, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda, the young son and daughter of the benevolent feudal lord Hanabusa flee to the mountains when their parents are slain by the treacherous usurper Odate. Ten years later, when the elderly priestess who has harbored them is also murdered, the rage of the slumbering ancient god that lies beneath the crumbling giant stone idol hidden deep in the forests in the mountains is invoked. In Return of Daimajin, Kenji Misumi brings his usual stylistic flourish, as the wrathful deity is roused from his new home on an island in the middle of a lake by...
- 6/14/2021
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Anime Limited are delighted to announce that Screen Anime, their curated channel dedicated to showcasing the pinnacle of Japanese animated films past and present, can now be enjoyed on the big screen at home or on the go with apps for Android and Amazon Fire TV devices available to download and watch now, with apps for iOS and Apple tvOS coming soon.
Since its launch in May 2020, Screen Anime has offered fans of the growing medium and film at large the opportunity to enjoy a rotating, curated monthly line-up of 4 films and 1 TV series that have ranged from recent smash-hits, to vintage classics, and cult curiosities, from only £3.98 a month.
Until 25th November, Screen Anime is hosting the expanded online line-up of Scotland Loves Anime, an annual film festival that had to scale back its physical events this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, two-thirds of all membership...
Since its launch in May 2020, Screen Anime has offered fans of the growing medium and film at large the opportunity to enjoy a rotating, curated monthly line-up of 4 films and 1 TV series that have ranged from recent smash-hits, to vintage classics, and cult curiosities, from only £3.98 a month.
Until 25th November, Screen Anime is hosting the expanded online line-up of Scotland Loves Anime, an annual film festival that had to scale back its physical events this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, two-thirds of all membership...
- 11/14/2020
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Author: Brian J. Robb; Foreword by James P. Blaylock
Hardcover: 192 pages, 300 color images
Publisher: Voyageur Press (November 17, 2012)
Isbn-10: 0760343764
Isbn-13: 978-0760343760
Synopsis:
Steampunk: An Illustrated History of Fantastical Fiction, Fanciful Film and Other Victorian Visions is the definitive book on the writers, film-makers, artisans and aesthetes who created the extraordinary genre. The book is spectacularly illustrated and international in scope, telling the comprehensive history of the movement, from its melding of Victorian, Edwardian and science-fiction influences to Lady Gaga and Alexander McQueen incorporating Steampunk into their art.
The author and contributors represent a “who’s who” of the Steampunk, Victorian, Edwardian, and science fiction genres. Starting with its roots in literature to its ongoing evolution involving visual media and informing craft and Diy traditions, author Brian J. Robb, along with James P. Blaylock and Jonathan Clements and others, not only charts Steampunk’s history but also its influence on culture today,...
Hardcover: 192 pages, 300 color images
Publisher: Voyageur Press (November 17, 2012)
Isbn-10: 0760343764
Isbn-13: 978-0760343760
Synopsis:
Steampunk: An Illustrated History of Fantastical Fiction, Fanciful Film and Other Victorian Visions is the definitive book on the writers, film-makers, artisans and aesthetes who created the extraordinary genre. The book is spectacularly illustrated and international in scope, telling the comprehensive history of the movement, from its melding of Victorian, Edwardian and science-fiction influences to Lady Gaga and Alexander McQueen incorporating Steampunk into their art.
The author and contributors represent a “who’s who” of the Steampunk, Victorian, Edwardian, and science fiction genres. Starting with its roots in literature to its ongoing evolution involving visual media and informing craft and Diy traditions, author Brian J. Robb, along with James P. Blaylock and Jonathan Clements and others, not only charts Steampunk’s history but also its influence on culture today,...
- 12/3/2012
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
An exclusive to What Culture guest blog post written by author Jonathan Clements on writing his new book Spartacus: Swords & Ashes…
TV Time
I’ve always been interested in the way a TV show parcels out time. The scripts of E.R. seemed deliberately intended to take place once a week, so that viewers looked in on action at roughly the same pace of events. Downton Abbey looks in on its characters only once or twice a year, causing events to accelerate at a break-neck pace. EastEnders often segues straight from a duff-duff cliff-hanger into the episode that follows, meaning that some “days” last for weeks, while others skip along in real-time. Since EastEnders often marks real events like Christmas or a cup final, it means that there are often entire months of experience glossed over or discarded.
Spartacus: Blood & Sand had a clever approach to time, only marking its...
TV Time
I’ve always been interested in the way a TV show parcels out time. The scripts of E.R. seemed deliberately intended to take place once a week, so that viewers looked in on action at roughly the same pace of events. Downton Abbey looks in on its characters only once or twice a year, causing events to accelerate at a break-neck pace. EastEnders often segues straight from a duff-duff cliff-hanger into the episode that follows, meaning that some “days” last for weeks, while others skip along in real-time. Since EastEnders often marks real events like Christmas or a cup final, it means that there are often entire months of experience glossed over or discarded.
Spartacus: Blood & Sand had a clever approach to time, only marking its...
- 1/25/2012
- by Jonathan Clements
- Obsessed with Film
Scotland Loves Anime, Glasgow & Edinburgh
Titles like One Piece Strong World or Trigun Badlands Rumble are unlikely to draw in the uninitiated, but you don't need to be a Scottish otaku to appreciate Japanese animation. Nor is it all still about robots and futuristic male fantasies. You're just as likely to get a detective yarn set in Victorian London (Professor Layton And The Eternal Diva, pictured) or a rural family saga incorporating a virtual gaming community (Summer Wars), though admittedly Evangelion 2.0 has all the giant-robot tech-porn you could wish for. As well as bringing eight features to Scotland, these weekend events are augmented by real live humanoids including Jonathan Clements (author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures In The Anime And Manga Trade), introducing the screenings and talking about their work.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri to 10 Oct; Edinburgh Filmhouse, 15-17 Oct; visit lovesanimation.com
Steven Severin & Blood Of A Poet, On...
Titles like One Piece Strong World or Trigun Badlands Rumble are unlikely to draw in the uninitiated, but you don't need to be a Scottish otaku to appreciate Japanese animation. Nor is it all still about robots and futuristic male fantasies. You're just as likely to get a detective yarn set in Victorian London (Professor Layton And The Eternal Diva, pictured) or a rural family saga incorporating a virtual gaming community (Summer Wars), though admittedly Evangelion 2.0 has all the giant-robot tech-porn you could wish for. As well as bringing eight features to Scotland, these weekend events are augmented by real live humanoids including Jonathan Clements (author of Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures In The Anime And Manga Trade), introducing the screenings and talking about their work.
Glasgow Film Theatre, Fri to 10 Oct; Edinburgh Filmhouse, 15-17 Oct; visit lovesanimation.com
Steven Severin & Blood Of A Poet, On...
- 10/1/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.