‘Star Wars: Visions’ Trailer Brings Fans Into an Anime Galaxy – And Back to Tatooine (Video)

EXCLUSIVE: Japanese action star Rina Takeda, Korean actress and model Go Joon-hee, Hong Kong actress Wiyona Yeung, and Singaporean actors Desmond Tan and Rebecca Lim are in discussions to join Hong Kong zombie movie Chungking Mansions.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has taken worldwide rights (outside France, Benelux, China, Japan and Korea) to animated feature The Summit Of The Gods (Le Sommet Des Dieux). Based on Jiro Taniguchi and Baku Yumemakura’s best selling manga, the movie debuted in the Cinema de la Plage section at the Cannes Film Festival this past July.

Richard Kuipers A young woman discovers she’s a crime family heiress in “Yakuza Princess,” a grimy action-thriller set in the neon-drenched streets of São Paulo’s Japanese district. Adapted from Danilo Beyruth’s graphic novel by Brazilian filmmaker Vicente Amorim (“Motorrad), “Yakuza” delivers stylish shootouts and eye-catching swordplay but lacks the dynamic characters and story-telling panache required to lift it into the top grade.

Mark Schilling Japan CorrespondentSony Pictures Entertainment announced earlier this month that it had completed its $1.18 billion purchase of anime streaming company Crunchyroll from AT&T, but it has done little to calm the nerves of the anime genre’s most dedicated supporters.“Our goal is to create a unified anime subscription experience as soon as possible,” said SPE chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra in a statement.

Celtic star Kyogo Furuhashi. A video circulating on social media over the weekend showed individuals on board an Ibrox supporters' bus singing vile songs and aiming offensive gestures at Japanese forward Furuhashi.

Shin'ichi "Sonny" Chiba, a martial artist and actor known for appearing in various films and television series, has died at 82. The star's rep confirmed to Fox News that Chiba died of COVID-19 complications on Wednesday in a hospital outside of Tokyo.

Japan as Shinichi Chiba, died late Thursday, Tokyo-based Astraia, his management office, said in a statement Friday.Japanese media said had been hospitalized near Tokyo with COVID-19 and died from pneumonia.Chiba rose to stardom in Japan in the 1960s, portraying samurai, fighters and police detectives, the anguished so-called “anti-heroes” trying to survive in a violent world.

Variety reported that it had received confirmation of the news from Chiba’s agent. With an acting career beginning in the 1960s with a string of roles in Japanese martial arts films and TV shows, Chiba became widely known in the west after being name-checked in True Romance, the 1993 thriller written by Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott.

The martial arts and movie communities are mourning the death of Sonny Chiba.

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Sonny Chiba was a Japanese martial artist and actor known for roles in the “Kill Bill” series and “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.”Chiba was a gymnast in his youth, learning martial arts while in college. He eventually became a fourth-degree black belt in karate as well as mastering several other martial arts styles.

Bally Sports Detroit said Wednesday that it has suspended Detroit Tigers TV commentator and Hall of Fame pitcher Jack Morris indefinitely in the wake of a comment he made about Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani during network’s broadcast of the Angeles-Tigers game Tuesday night.

Star Wars: Visions has been released – check it out below.Visions is an anthology series which will feature seven different stories from leading Japanese anime studios.

Disney+ dropped two trailers — one dubbed in English, the other in Japanese — for its upcoming “Star Wars: Visions” series on Tuesday, and the sneak peek shows a familiar universe reimagined like never before. The animated series is formatted as an anthology of fresh tales styled in Japanese anime and produced by seven separate genre studios. Set to premiere on Sept.

Disney+ has released the trailer and unveiled the Japanese and English dub voice cast for Star Wars: Visions from Lucasfilm, its upcoming anthology series comprised of short films, centered on the Star Wars universe. The series launches September 22 on Disney+. You can watch the trailer above.