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JAPAN: Kingdom of Characters

Posted: 30 March, 2011 at 2:33 am

This April, just in time for the school holidays, the Japan Foundation Sydney is proud to present our latest exhibition, Japan: Kingdom of Characters. The exhibition will run from 8 April through to 28 May at the Japan Foundation Gallery, taking visitors through Japan’s most popular characters that have triggered worldwide crazes from 1950s to 2000s.

Anime dead ahead!

Posted: 23 December, 2010 at 4:43 am

Armageddon and Animania will be hitting cities in Australia from February 2011, with plenty in store for anime fans!

Five minutes with Production I.G’s Naoyoshi Shiotani

Posted: 25 November, 2010 at 7:39 am

G’Day Japan! caught up with animator Naoyoshi Shiotani of Production I.G, on his way down to Sydney for the Japan Film Festival’s Anime Matsuri, where his impressive works Tokyo Marble Chocolate and Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror will be screening…

November anime releases from Madman

Posted: 25 November, 2010 at 1:24 am

Been holding back before Christmas? Stop reading now then, because Madman’s new stack of releases for November may be just the excuse you needed to push the button.

14th Japanese Film Festival opens to packed house in Sydney

Posted: 23 November, 2010 at 1:26 am

‘Overseas film festivals are extremely tense occasions for us…’

Rei Ayanami + Kaworu Nagisa (Evangelion) USB memory sticks from Buffalo

Posted: 26 October, 2010 at 7:09 am

Rei Ayanami has returned to Buffalo’s cute family of Swattars USB memory sticks, re-released in a 4GB model along with already available Evangelion counterpart Kaworu Nagisa.

Japanese Film Festival line up primed and ready

Posted: 20 October, 2010 at 3:14 am

The complete list of films screening at this year’s 14th Japanese Film Festival is now online for perusal at the festival website.

Boxtober at Madman

Posted: 19 October, 2010 at 6:21 am

Madman has released new, limited edition box sets of popular anime titles including Black Lagoon, Ouran High and Afro Samurai, as part of its Boxtober promotion.

Japanese films receive four APSA nominations

Posted: 19 October, 2010 at 6:15 am

Four Japanese films have been nominated in the categories of Best Animated Feature Film, and Best Screenplay for the upcoming Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) ceremony on the Gold Coast.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Blu-Ray release

Posted: 13 October, 2010 at 6:58 am

he Blu-Ray edition of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, a hit at the 2008 Reel Anime festival and winner of the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year (2006-07), will be released through Madman Entertainment on December 15, 2010.