Links



Things I Like

Anido
Animation 80
Animations: Creators and Critics
Anime Research
CALF and CALF Studio
Carlsen Verlag
Cinemascape
Criterion
Digital Meme
Eureka!
Expanded Editions Press
Film Studies for Free
Geneon Universal
Great Women Animators
Image Forum
Japanese Animation Association
Japanese Movie Database
The Japanese Paper Film Project 紙フィルム研究プロジェクト (Brucknell U)
Japan Society
Heeza: l'univers du cartoon
Kageboushi Theatre Company
Kihachiro Kawamoto Offical Website
Le Lézard Noir
Madman Entertainment
Marty Gross Film Productions
No Majesty
Ping Mag
Plus Screening
Rapid Eye Movies
Super Deluxe
SWAN - South West Animation Network
Tokyo Art Beat
Watarase Art Project
Yokohama Museum of Art
Zakka Films

Japanese and Asian Film and Animation Blogs

English

Angura! (Naomi Hocura, et al.)
Anipages Anime, its animators, and the art of animation (Benjamin Ettinger)
Asian Cine Fest (Stan Glick)
Eastern Film Fans
iSugoi シンキングオタクの (Miguel Douglas)
Japan Society Film Blog
Jason Gray
Jasper Sharp
Midnight Eye (Jasper Sharp and Tom Mes)
My Drama List (social network for Asian culture)
Néojaponisme (W. David Marx, Ian Lynam, et al.)
Nippon Cinema (Kevin Ouellette)
Tangemania (Aaron Gerow)
Tokyo Ramen (Mark Schilling)
Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow (Chris MaGee, et al.)
Vcinema (Jon Jung, et al.)
Vintage Ninja (Keith J. Reinville)

Japanese

Animations Creators and Critics (Nobuaki Doi)
Eat Much, Learn Slow (and don't ask Why) (Namiki Suzuki)
Film Makers Field(フィルム・メーカーズ・フィールド)
オープロダクション社長日記  (Oh! Pro Diary)
Kei Oyama Official Blog
ムエン通信
知られざるアニメーション (Koji Yamamura)
Short Film Researchers
Taku Furukawa Blog
Tampen (editor in chief: Amica Kubo)
Wuemme Experimental Film

German

Japan Kino (Klaus Wiesmüller)
Page of Madness (Stefan Nutz)

French

Asia Film À la découverte du cinéma asiatique 
Bulles de Japon 
CATSUKA
Écrans d'Asie  (Damien Paccellieri)
EigaGoGo (Martin Vieillot) 
nihon-eiga.fr Cinéma au soleil levant (Guillaume Boutigny)
Recherche animée (Marie Pruvost-Delaspre)

Hungarian

Digitalizált Élményvadász (manga, anime, and more)

Italian

Sonatine (Franco Picollo)
Storia(e) del documetnario in Giappone (Matteo Boscarol)


Spanish 

Kenshi Press (Kochi Ohta)


Other Great Blogs

Coffee, Coffee, and More Coffee (Peter Nellhaus)
Department of Alchemy (Alex Leavitt)
Minds Like Knives (David Z. Morris)
Nae Hauf-Way Hoose (Dougal McNeill)
Negativ Film: Magazin für Film und Medienkultur
(Ciprian David, Christian Alt, Dennis Vetter, Elisabeth Maurer)
Nihon Distractions Readings in translated Japanese Literature 
Japanese Contemporary Art (Monika Rendzner)
Schöner Denken:  Zwischen Kirk und Kafka
Subtitle Literate (Marc Saint-Cyr)

Museums and Archives

ASK? Art Space Kimura
Document Film Production Institute of Japan 日本記録映画研究所
Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
Fukuoka Film Archive
Independent Film Database 自主映画データベース
Japanese Cinema Database 日本映画情報システム
Japanese Movie Database 日本映画データベース
Kawakita Memorial Film Institute
Kurosawa Archives
Kyoto International Manga Museum 京都国際マンガミュージアム
Manggha (Krakow)
Matsuda Film Productions
Musabi Image Library
National Film Archive of Japan 国立映画アーカイブ
Suginami Animation Museum
Reenvisioning Japan: Japan as a Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture (University of Rochester, NY)
Yokohama Memorial Manga Museum

Film Studies and Art Colleges in Japan 

Image Forum
Kyoto University of Art and Design
Laputa Art Animation School
Meiji Gakuin University
Musashino Art University (Musabi)
Osaka University of the Arts (Osaka Geidai)
Tama Art University (Tamabi)
Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai)
Tokyo Zokei University (Zokei)

Film and Animation Festivals

Animafest (Zagreb)
Hiroshima International Animation Festival
Image Forum Festival (Tokyo, and other cities in Japan)
Japan Cuts (New York)
Laputa International Animation Festival (Tokyo)
Melbourne International Animation Festival
Nara International Film Festival
Nippon Connection (Frankfurt am Main)
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Pia Film Festival
Raindance
Sapporo Short Fest
Shinsedai Cinema Festival (Toronto)
Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film
Tokyo Filmex
Tricky Women (Vienna)
Yamagata International Documentary Festival
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival