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Akira Toriyama died at the age of 68 because of a blood clot on the brain, a statement posted to the official Dragon Ball account on X, said.
The movie prequel to the popular Japanese anime series, The Birth of Kitaro: Mystery of GeGeGe is extremely violent and dark, but is a profound and rewarding watch for more mature viewers.
Written and directed by prolific manga artist Mari Okada, Netflix’s Maboroshi is a Japanese fantasy anime in which an environmental disaster traps a small-town community in a bizarre time freeze.
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest and possibly last anime is about a boy searching for his mother in wartime Japan. He moves to a farm, where he meets a goblin that looks like a heron and tells him his mother is still alive.
Directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa and starring Yuki Yamada, Japanese anime Blue Giant will delight viewers with its absorbing story and superb soundtrack from jazz pianist Hiromi Uehara.
In competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, Suzume is an extraordinary achievement. Smart, sassy and weaving fantasy elements into a contemporary story, it is inspired by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake.
The latest addition to Takehiko Inoue’s Slam Dunk manga series, The First Slam Dunk intersperses some of the best animated basketball scenes of all time with compelling character drama.
Two melancholy teens find a magical tunnel that transports them to the past, and they begin to forge a romance, in Tomohisa Taguchi’s beautifully realised film.
This uneventful but intensely soothing movie is a follow-up to a hit Japanese anime series, and follows a group of young women as they camp in Japan’s breathtaking countryside.
A feature-length prequel to the hugely successful Jujutsu Kaisen anime series, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 follows a young bullied teenager trying to master a monstrous curse that has hold of him.
Netflix’s Bubble is a Japanese animated feature by Attack on Titan’s Tetsuro Araki – but this cyberpunk retelling of The Little Mermaid has been related in better ways before.
Netflix’s Japanese anime Child of Kamiari Month examines the lingering impact of grief as it follows a 12-year-old who discovers that her deceased mother’s godly duties have fallen to her.