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SciFi Japan covers science fiction, fantasy, and horror films and television with a focus on Japanese productions. The SFJ crew has worked with the American Cinematheque in Hollywood and Bay Area Film Events in San Francisco on film festivals devoted to Godzilla, Ultraman, and other science fiction movies.

Members of the SFJ staff have worked on Sony's animated TV show GODZILLA: THE SERIES, provided the audio commentary for the British Film Institute’s DVD of GODZILLA , supplied commentaries and other materials for GOJIRA and six other Godzilla DVDs from Classic Media as well as the "Toho Icons" DVD set from Sony, and produced the Toho-authorized FX documentary BRINGING GODZILLA DOWN TO SIZE.

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Osamu Tezuka's MW

MW is a new Japanese live action thriller based on the 1976 manga by Osamu Tezuka. The movie was produced by NTV (the DEATH NOTE film series), who has provided production notes, photos, publicity art,...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:50:00 GMT

BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE

American distributor Samuel Goldwyn Films sent me the US trailer, production notes, photos, poster art, and 3 video clips; everything is now on SciFi Japan: http://www.scifijapan.com/articles...
Posted by on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:34:00 GMT

UK Fans: Win the MEATBALL MACHINE DVD

The UK film distributor 4Digital Media is releasing a number of recent Japanese gore/splatter films on DVD. Up first is MEATBALL MACHINE, which has been described as a "Gloriously Bloody and R-Rate...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:51:00 GMT

Sony's TOHO COLLECTION DVD Set

On August 18, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release ICONS OF SCI-FI: TOHO COLLECTION, a DVD set of the Honda/Tsuburaya classics MOTHRA, THE H-MAN, and BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE. I've posted Sony's...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:29:00 GMT

VIZ Gets US Rights to K-20: THE FIEND WITH 20 FACES

VIZ Pictures has acquired K-20: THE FIEND WITH 20 FACES (aka K-20: LEGEND OF THE MASK).  The 2008 film is an action/mystery/sci-fi story co-produced by Toho, NTV, and Robot, the team behind the ALWAYS...
Posted by on Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:00:00 GMT

New Ultraman movie opens December

A crossover of the popular ULTRAMAN MEBIUS and ULTRA GALAXY series makes its way to the big screen this December in the new movie GIANT MONSTER BATTLE: ULTRA GALAXY LEGENDS - THE MOVIE (Daikaiju Bator...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:02:00 GMT

Win Tix to MONSTER X STRIKES BACK and GEHARA @ NYAFF

The New York Asian Film Festival is giving SciFi Japan readers and chance to win free tickets to see a double feature of MONSTER X STRIKES BACK: ATTACK THE G8 SUMMIT! And GEHARA: THE LONG-HAIRED GI...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:33:00 GMT

New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts 6/19-7/12

More than 50 films from 7 Asian countries will be shown at the New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts in NYC from June 19-July 12. The lineup is amazing, with several movies that would interes...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:19:00 GMT

GUALAGON-- New German Homagee to Kaiju Films

SciFi Japan has a detailed look at GUALAGON- FRANKENSTEIN'S GIANT OF TERROR, a new German audio drama inspired by classic Japanese monster movies. The article includes comments from the producers, an ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:39:00 GMT

Interview with Italian Colorized GODZILLA Director Luigi Cozzi

SciFi Japan has an extensive interview with filmmaker Luigi Cozzi, the director of the notorious colorized Italian version of GODZILLA known as COZZILLA.  Cozzi discusses the editing, the Spectro...
Posted by on Sun, 31 May 2009 18:44:00 GMT