Best 10 Japanese Documentaries of All Time

Last month, the Gifu-based Italian film critic Matteo Boscarol put out a call for critics and fans of Japanese documentaries to p…

A Look Back at 2014 in Japanese Animation

There was a fair bit of brouhaha this year surrounding the fact that for the first time in its 30-year history, no films by Japan…

A Visit to Tochka’s Studio in Kyoto

After Hiroshima 2014, I jumped on the Shinkansen to Kyoto to meet up with my family and some of the researchers headed to the Sat…