The K-ON Film has been in the theaters for about 5 weeks now. More »

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Remember Eita? Well back off because he’s happily married to Kimura Kaela.

But that’s not the news I wanted to bring you. More »

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A teaser has been released of the highly anticipated live action movie of the manga, Kimi Ni Todoke. More »

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The trailer for NECK starring Junpei Mizobata and Saki Aibu has been released. More »

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The widely respected director, Takeshi Kitano has comeback to the Yakuza film genre at Cannes with Outrageous. This movie is supposed to be horribly violent. Even though he was able to get into the festival with the reputation of it being good, it was slammed by French newspapers. Le Monde called it “his worst ever film,” and said the “depiction of excessive violence was grotesque,” while Figaro couldn’t understand why it had even been entered in the competition in the first place. More »

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From Ningin: I don’t know about you guys, but to me, Pokemon is a timeless series that really never gets old. It was a part of my childhood, and to this day, I still get excited when I hear about Pokemon. The new Pokemon movie, Phantom Ruler: Zoark, is coming to Japan on July 10th, and some new footage has just been shown on the Japanese television show, Pokemon Sunday. More »

From Ningin: The classic award-winning Hayao Miyazaki film, Spirited Away, will be featured at this years New York Children’s Film Festival. The NYICFF will be screening the film today and tomorrow (May 8th and May 9th), so if you’re in the New York area, stop on by to check it out! More »

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From the studio who brought us My Neighbor Totoro, Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, and most recently Ponyo brings us Ni no Kuni. The adventure game for the Nintendo DS follows Oliver, a young boy who just lost his mother, into a parallel universe called Ni no Kuni. More »

From Ningin: Ninja Assassin was released this week on Blu-ray and DVD. If you weren’t ninja enough to snag your own copy, you should be happy to know that there’s no such thing as ‘not being ninja enough’ at Ningin. How so? We’re giving away one copy a Ninja Assassin Blu-Ray to one lucky person! More »

From Ningin: Ponyo is to Hayao Miyazaki as Little Mermaid is to Disney. Growing up it’s always been a childhood dream of mine to become Ariel from The Little Mermaid — red hair, sea shell bra and all. There wasn’t a pool in sight that I didn’t reenact Ariel emerging from the water to do the famous, fierce Ariel hair-toss-out-of-the-water move. Having just seen Ponyo, I feel like I ought to take back all those embarrassing childhood memories. More »