By Anton Bitel
Atsushi Yamatoya’s 1967 Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wasteland subverts expectations of this softcore genre.
With the release of Studio Ghibli’s back catalogue on Netflix, we look back at one of their unsung greats.
By Zoe Crombie
Tomomi Mochizuki’s teenage love triangle drama is fascinating outlier in the studio’s catalogue.
Rejoice, Totoro fans: 21 of the Japanese animation studio’s feature films are headed your way.
Your Name director Makoto Shinkai returns with a riveting fantasy romance backdropped by environmental ruin.
Pyrokinetic mutants, shirtless firefighters and eco-fascists collide in the first feature film from Studio Trigger.
Fifteen of the iconic kaiju’s adventures have been compiled in a long-overdue commemorative boxset.
The latest anime series from Shinichirō Watanabe is among his kindest and most soulful to date.
This soulless documentary is an insult to subscribers who wanted to learn more about Japanese animation.
A fire at one of Japan’s foremost animation houses has resulted in the loss of precious life and work.
By Sam Moore
Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s nightmarish 1989 body horror explores the morbid fusion of biology and technology.
A new Studio Ponoc film is the first anime ever commissioned by the IOC.
Is the default assumption of the giant lizard’s maleness just plain sexism?
By Anton Bitel
Toshiaki Toyoda’s Blue Spring perfectly captures the fleeting excitement of youth.
Married gay lawyers in Osaka fight everyday injustice in this delightful, deadpan documentary.
There’s so much more to this J-horror hit than meets the punctured eye.
Don’t miss the opportunity to relive this nightmarish J-Horror courtesy of a new restoration.
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