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The Chapter Arts centre in Cardiff will partner with Wales&rsquo; International Horror Festival Abertoir to bring a selection of horror movies to cinemagoers on Halloween night and the highlight for Japanese film fans has to be the appearance of <em>Yakuza Apocalypse</em>, the latest film from...

Third Window Films&nbsp;have released the racy and somewhat satirical indie adult video comedy <em>Makeup Room </em>today. If you ever wanted to see some of the comical scenes that go on behind the pink curtain of the Japanese adult entertainment industry then this award-winning comedy from...

Film fans in London will find that September/October is a busy part of the year with Raindance, the London Film Festival, and the London Korean Film Festival packing a lot of movies into the two month period. Another film festival has recently sprung up and it&rsquo;s called the London East...

<strong>Satori Screen</strong> is Derby&rsquo;s QUAD Cinema monthly night of East Asian cinema and on <strong>Friday, October 23rd</strong>, the film Paprika will be shown at 20:45. &nbsp; &nbsp; Synopsis from Satori Screen: <em>In this spectacular anime a group of scientists...

UK artists who want to create their own stories have a great opportunity to get their work seen thanks to the Embassy of Japan who are running their annual comic-writing competition, Manga Jiman. According to the website, the theme of this year&rsquo;s competition is &lsquo;bright young...

The 2015&nbsp;Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival&nbsp;runs on Saturday, October 10th this week at the&nbsp;Aberystwyth Arts Centre.&nbsp;The films that are programmed are the same ones seen at the Cardiff run of the festival minus <em>Perfect Blue</em>. There might be one title missing but what...

The 2015&nbsp;Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival runs on Saturday this week at Cardiff&rsquo;s&nbsp;Chapter Arts Centre.&nbsp; Here&rsquo;s a look at the festival line-up going on the&nbsp;festival website's programme: &nbsp; <strong>Cardiff: Chapter Arts, Saturday 26th September 2015...

The Red Band trailer for Takashi Miike&rsquo;s latest title, <em>Yakuza Apocalypse: The Great War of the Underworld,</em> was recently released and it shows some of the insane action that will be in the film. &nbsp; <em><strong>Synopsis:</strong></em> <em>Akira works for the so-called...

Anime News Network have run a story listing a series of free talks connected to the world of manga. These talks are running as an accompaniment to a free manga exhibition called <em>Manga Now: Three Generations</em> which is on at the British Museum and features newly-commissioned work by the...

This years London Film Festival is set to take place from October 07th to the 18th and there 238 films from 57 countries screening in our nation&rsquo;s capital over the course of 12 days. Amidst the glamorous live-action films are two anime titles that fans will want to see: <em>The Boy and...

British television viewers have been spoiled this summer with Film4&rsquo;s screening of Ghibli classics such as <em>Spirited Away</em> and <em>Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind</em>. This week, as the summer holiday winds down, two of Studio Ghibli&rsquo;s best films, plus <em>Tales from...

Third Window Films will release a Blu-ray edition of <em>A Snake of June </em>next month. The film is an award-winning psycho-sexual thriller from legendary director Shinya Tsukamoto (<em>Tetsuo: The Iron Man</em>). Here are the details: A SNAKE&nbsp;OF&nbsp;JUNE Directed<strong>...

Earlier this week, Anime UK News was sent information regarding the theatrical release of <em>Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection &lsquo;F&rsquo;</em> in the UK with just over a month to go before its launch. Here are the details: &nbsp; <strong>Director:</strong> Tadayoshi Yamamuro...

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ UK Theatrical Release Details Earlier this week, Anime UK News was sent information regarding the theatrical release of <em>Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection &lsquo;F&rsquo;</em> in the UK with just over a month to go before its launch. Here are the details...

Third Window Films release the gentle and dark comedy Fukuchan of Fukufuku Flats today, July 13th, allowing British audiences the chance to dabble in a story of a good-natured broken-hearted guy meeting the girl who destroyed him and finding a degree of solace and understanding through...

A Kickstarter campaign for <em>Shenmue 3</em> has been launched to bring to life the dreams of millions of gamers. &nbsp; The goal for the game is $2 million and it reached $1 million in just a few hours, the fastest game to achieve that feat! &nbsp; <em>Shenmue 3</em> was...

I had tears in my eyes when I watched that Kickstarter video for Shenmue 3. I cannot wait to get my hands on it! My Dreamcast is already out, I'll start playing the games again!

Earlier today the website Japan Underground launched a competition giving people the chance to see the J-pop boy band Generations from Exile Tribe in London this Saturday. Here are the details: London has had plenty of J-pop acts grace&nbsp;stages across the city throughout the years...

<strong>Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival</strong> The organisers behind the Kotatsu Japanese Animation Festival have announced some of their programme for this year's festival and the selections include some of the latest anime movies to grace the big screen and two classics. The films...

Last week, AUKN&rsquo;s Ian Wolf reported that American anime distributor AnimEigo had launched a Kickstarter campaign for a release of <em>Otaku no Video</em> and today, AnimeEigo has seen its Kickstarter for <em>Otaku no Video</em> achieve its goal with 22 days to go! The AnimeEigo...