News - by Ian - September 10, 2009 - 15:07 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Manga Entertainment, the distributor for the anime to live action movie: Blood The Last Vampire, have recently confirmed that the DVD release of this hit film will be the 2nd November 2009 for the UK.
Produced by Production IG and directed by Hiroyuki Kitabuko, Blood The Last Vampire is a mature, supernatural action film. The premise behind the movie is as follows:
It is the autumn of 1966 and Halloween is approaching. The Vietnam War is underway and the U.S. military machine is being supplied out of the Yokota Air Force Base, a plot of U.S. land on Japanese soil. Within the compound, the atmosphere is charged with violent intensity as F4 combat planes take off hastily one after the other. Meanwhile, a series of suspicious suicides are reported in the nearby town and a team of top-secret undercover agents is dispatched to investigate.
On the Ginza subway line the last train is heading toward Asakusa. A girl sits quietly in a dreary subway car. Her name is Saya. With a piercing gaze that would force even an adult into submission and lips tightly drawn with determination, she is the saviour sent by the ‘organization’ to vanquish the blood-sucking demons known as chiropterans that have concealed themselves inside their human hosts. Clad in a Japanese school uniform, and wielding an ancient Samurai sword, Saya must infiltrate the American school within the Yokota military compound, uncover the source of the pestilence and eliminate it.
It’s been confirmed via their official press site that Blood The Last Vampire will be released on DVD on the 2nd November in Blu-Ray and the packaging looks like:
- For Full View, click on the image.Copyright Manga Entertainment
No word on the SD DVD yet, but it would be safe to assume it’s the same day. We’ll keep you posted once we have official confirmation.
News - by Ian - September 10, 2009 - 14:47 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
In August, an important announcement was made that we unfortunately missed due to my absence. So I’m posting it for everyone as a “just in case”.
The latest Ghibli film made by Miyazaki, Ponyo By The Sea, On the Cliff (or just Ponyo in all English markets) is being released nationwide in cinemas on the 5th February, 2010, it’s also been confirmed that the DVD will not be released until the middle of June 2010.
This was confirmed on e-mail as:
Ponyo will be released in cinemas nationwide on February 5th 2010. The DVD will be released in mid June 2010. Whether or not it will be released on Blu-ray is yet to be confirmed.
To Tim at TimMaughanBooks.com.
It’s being predicted that the DVD in the USA will be out by the end of the year, leaving a six month window between the US and the UK release of the DVDs.
Source: timmaughanbooks.com
News - by Ian - September 10, 2009 - 14:02 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
From October 14th to the 29th, the 53rd London Film Festival hosted by The Times in London will screen hundreds of different films that many people may have missed in the past. Yesterday it was announced that a number of Live Action Japanese films based on anime shows will be shown this year, as part of the latest onslaught of major films to be shown in the UK.
The three films that will be:
Air Doll
“Kore-eda’s unexpected fantasy is both a charming love story and a fragile parable: an inflatable sex doll suddenly acquires a soul and starts to discover what ‘life’ really is.”
Viewing:
Date: Sat 24 October
Time: 21:15
Screen: Vue Screen 9
Date: Sun 25 October
Time: 13:45
Screen: Vue Screen 9
More information on this can be found here.
Astro Boy
“The robot boy from Metro City gets a CGI makeover in this updating of the anime classic.”
Viewing
Date: Sat 17 October
Time: 15:30
Screen: Vue Screen 5
Date: Sat 17 October
Time: 15:45
Screen: Vue Screen 7
More information can be found here.
Kamui
“Probably the best ninja movie ever made, Yoichi Sai’s adaptation from the legendary manga blends folk-tale, action fantasy and parable; with hot young star Kenichi Matsuyama as the hero.”
Viewing:
Date: Thu 22 October
Time: 18:15
Screen: NFT2
Date: Fri 23 October
Time: 16:00
Screen: NFT2
More information can be found here.
This event is being funded by various different sources, but the principle funder is the National Lottery, who have funded many recent anime/Japanese film releases such as Howl’s Moving Castle, Blood The Last Vampire and The Curse of the Golden Flower.
For more information on the BFI, please click here.
News - by Ian - September 7, 2009 - 14:12 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
So after a few weeks of not letting you know, we’re now back on track with our new DVDs that are due out this week. So, without further adieu, this week there are lots of DVDs out on the UK market for us all to buy and enjoy. These seven DVDs are all anime or live action Japanese films based off manga, anime or videogames, and they are:
- Ghost In the Shell 2 (Blue-Ray)
- Beserk Box Set
- Dororo (Live Action) – see clips of Dororo here.
- Samurai Deeper KYO Volume 2
- Slayers: Try Volume 1
- Solty Rei Volume 4
- Chanbara Beauty (Live Action) – see clips of Chanbara Beauty here.
As always these new releases can be purchased through all good retailers online and in old style shops as well.
News - by Ian - September 5, 2009 - 19:44 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
Based on the videogame The Onechanbara, in the near future the world’s population has been transformed into flesh eating zombies by a virus created by a mad scientiest, Dr. Sugita. In an attempt to save the world our bikini clad, cowboy hat wearing, samurai sword wielding heroine slashing her way through a myriad of zombies to slowly progress to her goal.
As Chanbara Beauty is out on Monday, we’ve kindly been granted access to a few clips of this up and coming film:
News - by Ian - September 5, 2009 - 19:33 Europe/London - 1 Comment
Based on the manga series of Osamu Tezuka, Dororo has finally had it’s big screen adaptation featuring Kou Shibasaki of Battle Royale fame and the choreography of Siu-Tung Ching of Curse of the Golden Flower, House of Flying Daggers and Hero fame.
Dororo is an energetic and inventive movie which starts out serious and becomes steadily more amusing as the film progresses. With plenty of demons, impossible martial arts and humour abound Dororo is set for any viewer who enjoyed this classic manga from yesteryear. To celebrate this, we’ve been sent a few clips which can be seen below:
News - by Ian - September 4, 2009 - 19:55 Europe/London - Be first to Comment!
It’s recently been confirmed that A.D. Vision, the parent company of the troubled ADV Films has officially closed down after handing it’s assets to several other companies that are planning on continuting it’s operations. AEsir Holdings have all of ADV’s film library along with other IP and Section 23 Films will assume the distribution operations for AEsir Holdings.
Whilst Valkyrie Media Partners has acquired 100% of the Anime Network TV unit and Seraphim Studios has taken control of ADV’s Amustment Park Media produciton unit.
These new companies are all based in Houston, Texas, where ADV was originally based and the new companies are all filed under the fomer Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affiars, Griffin D. Vance IV.
Currently the impact of these new companies and transfers of rights to the UK market is unknown.
