To celebrate the 80 th anniversary of the birth of Osamu Tezuka in 2008, the NHK released two documentaries on DVD:   Osamu Tezuka: T...

In his long and varied career in animation, Shin’ichi Suzuki has worked behind the scenes on many anime classics. He was a key animato...

The Gourd Bottle ( ひょうたん , 1976) is an independent animated short by Shin’ichi Suzuki.  Suzuki belongs to the first generation of p...

Japanese Auteur Animation at RICA Wissembourg, Part 2: The Invention of the Animation Auteur « L'animation japonaise d'auteur...

Thanks to the Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy ( JVTA ), we were treated to a rare screening of the full length version of Nagis...

From the Roman legend of Romulus and Remus to Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli, tales of feral children – or what the Japanese call yaseiji...

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. -...

At Nippon Connection 2012 , we had the rare opportunity to see the latest animated short by the artist Akino Kondoh .  It took Kondoh...