'Japanese Animated Film Classics' features 64 of the oldest animations, available with English subtitles. By Gavin J Blair To mark a century of Japanese animation, the Film Center at Tokyo’s National ...

Renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami expressed joy with how several of his short stories were adapted in American director Pierre Földes’ animated film “Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman”, adding he ...

With 27 years under its belt, Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia continues to prove that evocative storytelling can be packed into just a few minutes of screen time. Launched in 1999, the festival is ...

Crunchyroll’s Official Twitter Account shared the news that Kyoto would be re-releasing six of their fan favorite anime films to the EJ Anime Theater in Japan: NEWS: Six Kyoto Animation Anime Films to ...

An association to preserve Japanese folktales is on a mission to scour the farthest corners of the country for unique local folktales about the sea and adapt them into short, animated films. Nippon ...

Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia 2024, Japan’s largest festival of short films and a qualifying event for the U.S. Academy Awards, will be held from June 4 to 17 at various venues in Tokyo. There is ...

Animated short films are an art form that has been around for almost as long as the film itself, with entries into the genre ranging from children's cartoons to absurdist artworks, to introspective ...

Katsuhiro Otomo’s uneven but often dazzling anthology feature “Short Peace” reminds viewers of the untapped visual potential of animation. Although Otomo is best known as the creator of the dystopian ...

The animation branch, to which approximately 700 Academy members will belong, will be represented by two governors, and the short films branch, to which some 200 members will belong, will be ...