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‘Long Way North’ – An animated odyssey on Peacock and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, DVD, family friendly, historical, International Cinema, Kid Stuff, Peacock, Shout! Factory, Streaming Movies, SVOD 12/23/2021 Sean Axmaker

This gorgeous French-Danish animated feature is a coming of age story, age of adventure odyssey, and finally survival tale in the icy North.

Animated feature from Japan by director Sunao Katabuchi, based on the manga by Fumiyo Kono

‘In This Corner of the World’ on Netflix

!Featured, Animation, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, International Cinema, Netflix, Streaming Movies, SVOD, war 03/15/2018 Sean Axmaker

In This Corner of the World (Japan, 2016), adapted from the acclaimed manga by Fumiyo Kono, charts life in Japan from 1934 through 1946 as seen through the eyes of a young woman. Suzu is a teenage schoolgirl in Hiroshima when we meet her, a budding artist with a bullying older brother and a spritely […]

Animation on Blu-ray: ‘Your Name,’ ‘Napping Princess,’ ‘In This Corner of the World’ from Japan

Animation, Blu-ray, DVD, Shout! Factory 02/20/2018 Sean Axmaker 2 Comments

Your Name. (Funimation, Blu-ray, DVD) Napping Princess (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray, DVD) In This Corner of the World (Shout! Factory, Blu-ray, DVD) Japanese animator and filmmaker Makoto Shinkai turns his own young adult novel into Your Name. (Japan, 2016), an animated feature that brings a fresh approach to the classic comic situation of body swapping. In […]