Director – Katsuhiro Otomo – 1988 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 124m ***** Manga artist turned director Katsuhiro Otomo’s cyberpunk classic returns to the big screen – back in over 350+ UK and Ireland cinemas, plus every IMAX screen from Friday, April 17th! When Akira first appeared in the UK at the start of the nineties, Disney […]
1/ Magnetic Rose (Kanojo no Omoide, 彼女の想いで) 2/ Stink Bomb (Saishu Heiki, 最臭兵器) 3/ Cannon Fodder (Taiho no Machi, 大砲の街) Directors – 1/ Koji Morimoto, 2/ Tensai Okamura, 3/ Katsuhiro Otomo – 1995 – Japan – Cert. 12 – 113m ***** Executive producer Katsuhiro Otomo’s anime anthology adapts three of his dystopian-themed manga stories into […]
Director – Hiroyuki Kitakubo – 1991 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 80m ***1/2 Robot beds deal with the major Japanese social problem of caring for their burgeoning elderly populous – in cinemas Touted as manga artist / anime director Katsuhiro Otomo’s follow up to the phenomenally successful Akira (Katsuhiro Otomo, 1988), Roujin Z was […]