Search: Starring Jun Fubuki

The Boy And The Heron (2023)

Review preview for The Boy And The Heron

The hand-drawn beauty of the images always connects to ideas, something grander that we have yet to find out about.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5

A teenager, haunted by his mother’s tragic death, is relocated from Tokyo to the serene rural home of his new stepmother Natsuko, who bears a striking resemblance to his mum. His strange new world grows even stranger following the appearance of a persistent gray heron, who dubs him the “long-awaited one.”
Pulse (2001)

Review preview for Pulse

The combination of subtlety and indeterminacy makes for an uncanny treat.

Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5

Facing the apocalypse, as a secret website devotes itself to the terrible isolation of ghosts and the parable of techno terror.
Seance (2000)

Review preview for Seance

On the one hand, Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs with admirable restraint... on the other violates credibility with a plot that is predictable and absurd.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 2.5 out of 5

The fate of missing schoolgirl haunts the lives of a medium and her husband in Japan.
Tales From Earthsea (2006)

Review preview for Tales From Earthsea

A seaworthy effort, both as an impressive debut from someone who has never previously worked in animation, and as a fine (if somewhat bewildering) piece of synoptic adaptation.

Anton Bitel · 3.5 out of 5

A young prince is caught up in a titanic struggle of sorcerers.