Fujitsu Ryota, programming advisor for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s anime section, has taken ‘onko-chishin,’ a four-kanji-character term meaning “respect the past, create the new,” as the ...

A TIFFCOM seminar on Thursday demonstrated both a sense of incredulity that Japanese animation “Suzume” could have enjoyed such wide international success and conveyed the depth of passionate ...

To many Americans 15 years ago, the word anime conjured up images of hyper-stylized, ultra-violent and overly sexualized cartoons. These days, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone under the age ...