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It is no secret that India-Japan relations have been on a strong positive trajectory over the past 18 months. Soon after taking office in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made Japan his first foreign destination outside of India’s immediate neighborhood and while in Tokyo, he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upgraded the India-Japan relationship

The post Time to follow through on India and Japan’s promises appeared first on OUPblog.

Two slightly different versions of the film will be released in China.

The post Katzenberg Has A Plan To Make Chinese People See ‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Again…And Again…And Again appeared first on Cartoon Brew.

If you've ever wanted to see a human man give birth to a cartoon monster, this film might be for you.

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Audiences in LA and NY have voted with their wallets: they are ready for mature and intelligent feature animation.

The post Paramount Scores With ‘Anomalisa’ Debut In Los Angeles and New York appeared first on Cartoon Brew.

The film is about two guardian spirits trying to prove their relevance in modern China.

The post Watch: New Action-Packed Trailer For ‘Little Door Gods’ Which Opened Wide in China Today appeared first on Cartoon Brew.

Minkoff's Flying Tigers Entertainment has sealed a two-picture deal with China's Le Vision Pictures, including an animated adaptation of 'Wolf Totem.'

Five chapters about horse are cut up.

An homage to "Blazing Saddles," "Blazing Samurai" is a global animated affair.

Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean covers over 10,000 years, charting the development of European, Near Eastern, and Chinese civilizations and the growing links between them by way of the Indian Ocean, the silk Roads, and the great steppe corridor (which crucially allowed horse riders to travel from Mongolia to the Great Hungarian Plain within a year).

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The film will be released theatrically in mainland China on January 1, 2016, preceded by a 36-city roadshow tour beginning on October 3.

While most of the ReedPOP staff were in Brooklyn promoting the official beer of New York Comic Con, Lance Fensterman was in China, announcing the creation of the Beijing Comic Convention, to be held June 9-10, 2016! Beijing joins the Shanghai Comic Convention as the second ReedPOP show in China, and their eighth in Asia. […]

The debut feature from Light Chaser Animation now has the backing of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba.

This August we are featuring Lao Tzu, the legendary Chinese thinker and founder of Taoism, as Philosopher of the Month. He is best known as the author of the classic ‘Tao Te Ching’ (‘The Book of the Way and its Power’). Take our quiz to see how much you know about the life and studies of Lao Tzu!

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"Monster Hunt" is now the most financially successful Chinese film ever made.

Fire and collapse in Bangladeshi factories are no longer unexpected news, and sweatshop scandals are too familiar. Conflicting moral, legal, and political claims abound. But there have been positives, and promises of more. The best hope for progress may be in the power of individual contracts.

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Former DreamWorks and Sony execs Sandra Rabins and Penney Finkelman Cox are leading Original Force's push into feature animation.

'Mr. Black' and 'Kwang Boo' are another reminder China is increasingly self-reliant when it comes to creating and consuming cartoon features.

Director Ash Brannon, animation studio Reel FX, and actors Luke Wilson and Eddie Izzard are all involved in this Chinese animated feature.

Lao (Laozi) Tzu is credited as the founder of Taoism, a Chinese philosophy and religion. An elusive figure, he was allegedly a learned yet reclusive official at the Zhōu court (1045–256 BC) – a lesser aristocrat of literary competence who worked as a copyist and archivist. Scholars have variously dated his life to between the third and sixth centuries BC, but he is best known as the author of the classic Tao Te Ching (‘The Book of the Way and its Power’).

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Chinese distributor Flame Node is also expected to co-produce Wizart's "Snow Queen 3: Fire and Ice."