GKIDS has become a major player in the anime game, routinely bringing some big anime projects to North American theaters and home video. Recently, the publisher helped to bring Studio Ghibli’s The Boy ...

The normally great director misses the mark with a wonderfully animated but narratively clunky retelling of the Shakespearean staple ...

Mamoru Oshii is famous for influential anime feature films like Patlabor 2: The Movie and Ghost in the Shell. Prior to that, he made a name for himself directing the Urusei Yatsura TV series in the ...

The legendary Mamoru Hosoda is gearing up to release yet another film this year, and it might be his most different and unique one yet, based on available information and the creator’s own words.

Vengeance is all that matters to Scarlet, the hate-fueled heroine of Mamoru Hosoda’s most elaborate — and unexpectedly frustrating — animated feature to date. At once visually arresting and a chore to ...

In age where movies make $2 billion and somehow make little cultural impact, the success of William Shakespeare seems unthinkable. He wrote plays over 400 years ago and we’re all still obsessed with ...

Mamoru Hosoda's The Boy and the Beast is the latest feature film from the award-winning Japanese director of Summer Wars and Wolf Children. When Kyuta, a young orphan living on the streets of Shibuya, ...

The Venice Film Festival announced its lineup today, including an out-of-competition screening for Oscar-nominated director Mamoru Hosoda’s highly anticipated next feature, Scarlet. The film has been ...

Before Mamoru Hosoda’s 2006 hit, there was Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time,' a forgotten sci-fi gem that just got a new Blu-ray release.