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The Quintessential Quintuplets review – sisters compete for love in charming anime
The premise of a high-school tutor forced to choose which of his students to marry could have been disastrous …
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Inu-oh review – medieval anime rock opera rips Noh theatre a new one
Masaaki Yuasa’s showstopping animation reframes the classical performance style as a world of rock gods and ca…
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Why Drive My Car should win the best picture Oscar
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s light yet profound drama is the kind of thrilling discovery that foreign-language cinema i…
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‘The script is a vehicle’: Japanese director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi on Drive My Car
Hamaguchi’s award-winning and absorbing new movie Drive My Car deals with issues of grief and infidelity – and…
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Fukushima 50 review – Ken Watanabe in simmering tribute to power-plant heroes
There’s a touch of Hollywood in this dramatised account of the 50 workers who stayed at Fukushima Daiichi in a…
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My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising review – workies save the world
Apprentice superheroes fight the forces of evil in an anime adventure overloaded with Japanese bizarro zealA s…
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One Piece: Stampede review – piratical manga mayhem
This imaginative carnival of battling buccaneers makes Pirates of the Caribbean look like Swallows and Amazons…