Category: Show Biz

Anime, movies or other moving picture stuffs related to Japanese culture

Soar and Escape into Hayao Miyazaki’s Beautiful Swansong (‘The Wind Rises’ Movie Review)

He is undoubtedly the godfather of Japanese animated film-making, and is deemed by everyone as the “legendary” animator. The creator and director of award-winning anime features such as Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001), and Howls’ Moving Castle (2004), Hayao Miyazaki will be retiring with his last film, The Wind Rises.

Detective Galileo: Midsummer’s Equation Movie Review

Masaharu Fukuyama returns as the brilliant physicist cum part-time detective, Manabu Yukawa, in this latest installment of the “Detective Gallileo” series; “Midsummer’s Equation”. The film opens with a scene on a train where Yakawa got a kid out of a jam with his persistently ringing cell-phone by wrapping it in an aluminum foil (note to…