Cinema Escapist
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Review: “Promare” Challenges Animation’s Constraints Through A World On Fire
BY Elizabeth Li
Studio Trigger’s theatrical debut is equal parts a visual marvel and a boisterous shout for the West to catch up with Japanese animation.
Review: Yamato (Japan, 2005)
BY Anthony Kao
Commissioned a week after Pearl Harbor in 1941, the battleship Yamato is a fitting metaphor for the rise and fall of the Japanese Empire during...