There’s a lot to like in this two-part teen flick, but at four-and-a-half hours long there’s also just a lot of itAs is often the way with bowdlerised cinema adaptations of long-running anime series, the two-part version of Penguindrum – which original…
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もっと読む »Almost eight decades after the bomb, G7 leaders will meet in the Japanese city where survivors are urging action on disarmament amid the Ukraine warA blow to the head probably saved Park Namjoo’s life. The 13-year-old schoolgirl, like many other childr…
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