David Heath is a List Writer from the UK specializing in video games, movies, TV shows, and the occasional anime. This work from 1979 about a kindly inventor who lives in the woods certainly looks ...

What kind of world do we live in when the Japan Society dedicates three months to “The Genius of Japanese Lacquer” and only four days to its amazing “Dawn of Japanese Animation” film series? Between ...

Writing from the Chicagoland area in Illinois, Robert is an avid movie watcher and will take just about any excuse to find time to go to his local movie theaters. Robert graduated from Bradley ...

FILE - Doraemon, one of the most popular animation characters in Japan, participates in a kick-off ceremony of the Tokyo's bid to host the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo when Tokyo is bidding against Istanbul ...

Since the dawn of time (animation time at least), people who aren’t in the know have categorised Japanese anime and American cartoons under the umbrella term of ‘animation’, expecting them both to ...

If you grew up in India during the 2000s, chances are you've either been scolded for watching 'Shinchan' or secretly laughed at his "elephant dance" when your parents weren't around (or was it just me ...

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of “Sazae-san,” a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world. By Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Tokyo ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Being a soldier in Japan after World War Two was seen as a job for failed police recruits and unemployed youth from depressed rural towns. But as tension with China chips away at ...

The team at Maybe Movies ('Long Way North') strikes a distinctive, minimalistic look in order to represent writer Amélie Northomb's formative years in Kobe. As Nothomb remembers it, in those early ...