Posted in Animation, tagged Children, Fantasy, Japanese, Magic, Miyazaki on June 10, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Howl’s Moving Castle
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Written by: Hayao Miyazaki, Diana Wynne Jones
US Release: June 2005
Finally it’s released in US theaters. I love the book by Diana Wynne Jones, though it was a long time ago since I read it and my memory is failing me on the details. But my impression was still strong, [...]
Posted in Novel, tagged Adolescent, Exploitation, Japanese, Juvenile, Trashy on November 11, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Battle Royale (1999)
by Koushun Takami
The premise sounds great: A class of junior high students were forced to participate in a survival game on an isolated island conducted by a (hypothetical) Fascist government. Each were given a random weapon, ranged from utter useless things to a machine gun. They have to kill off each other within [...]
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