Jonathan Wroot

Japanese film director jailed for 8 years for sexual assualt Hideo Sakaki's film 'Confession' was pulled following the accusations in 2022, part of a string of sexual abuse allegations to hit Japan's film and television industry.

A Japanese film director was jailed for eight years Friday over the sexual assault of two women actors, a court spokesperson and media reports said.

Toronto Film Critics Association Faces Collapse After Allegedly Censoring Indigenous Filmmaker’s Pro-Palestine Speech The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which included remarks in support of Palestine.

The mass exodus at the Toronto Film Critics Association is gathering pace after indigenous actress and filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers returned her award trophy following the alleged censorship of her video acceptance speech, which included remarks in support of Palestine.

The drawing for this (and some other pieces are) up now at: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

My Top 5 Boutique Blu-ray Box Sets of 2025 In this video, I’m counting down my top 5 favourite boutique Blu-ray box set releases of 2025. From standout packaging to film selections and overall presentation, these sets really defined my year…

Takashi Ishii's 4 Tales of Nami box set has been picked by Elliot Coen as one of his Top 5 Boutique Blu-ray Box Sets of 2025!!

"Journal articles aren’t [scholarship]. They’re just a unit of measurement. They’re how we keep score. Producing journal articles isn’t what we are actually meant to be doing — we’re supposed to be learning meaningful things about people, power, and society."

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Excellent, clear-eyed essay about where people are focused right now regarding AI and/or higher ed, and why almost not of that should be the lead story.

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An interesting choice of name. The new Kadokawa/Aniplex venture is leaning in to Japan's old school anime fan heritage and Tomino's Declaration of a New Anime Century. Animec was a Kadokawa Shoten anime magazine published from 1978-1987 and revived for one issue only in 2019. More info in comments.

The Manga Bible, UK edition out today, with German and French editions. Hot pink covers overprinted with black graphic imagery by Baron Yoshimoto. Block capital lettering in yellow for the title and white for author name.

Happy New Book Birthday to me! #TheMangaBible is in the shops today. I can't go into town and seek it out on the shelves because I have to stay at home until my shoulder heals, so please help me see how it looks in the wild. Pls post any sightings - photos if poss! - and link to reviews you see.

Pour one out for RADICAL JAPAN: CINEMA AND STATE, our 9-film box set of Nagisa Oshima, which has just sold out fully on our site after being released only last November. Copies might still be available from other retailers, but it will no longer be restocked by us directly.

New screening!

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He should be tried for criminal assault

Nobody hates living veterans more than Republicans. Dead veterans they can exploit in videos. But living veterans with opinions and medical needs are literally offensive to conservatives.

Here comes (me interviewing the team behind) The Bride!

and back at the BAFTAs, Riz Ahmed gave me an all-timer 4F

Paddington in Weapons (2025)

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1816

One Piece's Luffy Teaches Sesame Street's Elmo a New Japanese Word Luffy & Elmo are now NAKAMAAAAA!

Luffy & Elmo are now NAKAMAAAAA!

This did my heart a lot of good.

Around halfway through, you can actually see the blood start to drain from Noem's body, starting from her cosmetically Botoxed forehead and working its way down.

Read these words from 100 years ago about immigrants in Britain – and see how history is chillingly repeating itself | George Monbiot Shabana Mahmood’s new rights clampdown looks outlandish until we remember that this kind of hardline action is part of our country’s fabric, says George Monbiot

The precedent is eerily, chillingly precise. What the current Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is doing to immigrants and refugees today is almost a carbon copy of what Sir William Joynson-Hicks was doing 100 years ago. And that's not a good thing. My column.
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Cartoon Saloon Reveals Trailer for ‘Kindred Spirits’ Feature Tomm Moore was at Cartoon Movie to tease his upcoming animated film about an Irish refugee and a Choctaw boy on a magical journey across 1840s America.

EXCLUSIVE: Watch the first teaser for Cartoon Saloon's 'Kindred Spirits,' the new animated feature in development from studio co-founder Tomm Moore ('The Secret of Kells,' 'Song of the Sea'). www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film...

*Absurdly* short notice but we're screening the Oscar-nominated ARCO along with a selection of short films by director Ugo Bienvenu, followed by a recorded Q&A with the man himself.

Friday 20th March at Picturehouse Central. Come along!

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a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

“As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”

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possibly my favorite ever jet lag trailer...and for a season i think people are rlly gonna like

Anime producers ramp up domestic direct film distribution Plus: Media Do buys LA-based manga publisher Seven Seas; Twin Engine acquires anime studio Nut; CyberAgent finds success in 'Jujutsu Kaisen' game; and more

Japan's anime rightsholders are shifting away from film distributors like Toho and Shochiku and building their own systems for distributing anime films domestically to retain a bigger share of box office earnings.

Read this and more headlines in this week's business briefing.

This weekend Tim is joined by @kathughes.bsky.social to travel back in time to discuss LA JETÉE (1962)

A sprawling epic across 3 discs, our release of THE JAPANESE GODFATHER TRILOGY stars genre legends like Koji Tsuruta and Sonny Chiba and comes in a rigid slipcase with reversible sleeve artwork.

You can get East Asian films released by Arrow, Criterion, Radiance, Third Window and more on the #terracottastore.

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Unemployment set to hit 5.3% this year amid ‘worrying’ rise in young jobless OBR raises forecast from 4.9% and downgrades UK’s growth prospects for 2026 – while also warning of war uncertainty

Unemployment in the UK is set to peak this year at a higher rate than previously estimated, with a “worrying” increase in young people being out of work, the government’s official forecaster has said

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