Results tagged “anime”

Shanghaiist lists all the live music performances you might want to check out from Wednesday to Sunday this week. For fun things that aren't live music, take a peek at our Pencil This In (out every Monday!)

And so yet another Americanized 3D version of an old animation classic crashes upon us. This week Imagi Studio's version of "Astro Boy," the superhero story that originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, sees its worldwide release. And with the release of the movie, a huge marketing carousel filled with toys, books and video games starts spinning as well. It raises some questions on how to actually best do our old classics justice.

This week Shanghai Cinemas are pleasing us with a new movie from the man called "Hong Kong's King of Comics", Wong Yuk-Long, also known as Tom Wong. Therefore, we'll use this week's Cinematheque as an excuse to go through some 漫画 (manhua) history.

Heres a little something for all of us anime fans! Doraemon: Nobita to Midori no Kyojin Den, (Nobita and the Green Giant Legend) the latest movie about Fujiko F. Fujio's manga robotic cat, will hit the silver screens of several Shanghai cinemas this week (starting today, Friday). Of course, in Japan it has already been running for over a year (it was released on March 8, 2008) but we shouldn't complain. Earlier this year the movie was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year, but got beaten by Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.

Amsterdam-based World Press Photo earlier this month announced the winners of its annual photo contest, the world's largest and most prestigious for press photography. Shanghai-based photographer Ariana Lindquist, an American who shoots for the New York Times, TIME and other publications, won first prize in Arts and Entertainment for her portrait of a girl in an anime costume at Shanghai Stadium. We think the least all Shanghaiist readers could do is buy Ariana a drink (that's one drink each, not total). Way to go, Ariana!