Hideaki Anno

庵野秀明 ANNO Hideako

Hideaki Anno is a Japanese animation and film director who has also appeared as an actor in several live-action movies. He is best known for his work on the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

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Born: May 22, 1960 (age 52)
Birthplace: Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Blood type: A

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“Evangelion 2.0: You Can [Not] Advance” trailer officially posted to Bandai Channel -UPDATE-

A little over 10 days ago someone recorded the trailer for the Evangelion 2.0 rebuild with their cell phone and posted it somewhere (probably YouTube), after which it was ripped and copied by anime nerds to pretty much every video hosting site in the world. Bandai did their best to…
4 years ago
Trailer for "Shiki-Jitsu"

Trailer for Hideaki Anno’s second live-action movie, Shiki-Jitsu. Plot: A filmmaker (Shunji Iwai) who returns to his hometown and meets a strange girl (Ayako Fujitani) who claims tomorrow is her birthday. He returns the next day with a gift, but she refuses it, repeating that tomorrow is her birthday. Over…
4 years ago
Trailer for "Funky Forest: The First Contact" (Nice no Mori: The First Contact)

This frenetically-paced Katsuhito Ishii film interlaces various story-lines as a vehicle to present short comedy skits and musical dance numbers for the sake of completely nonsensical-yet-charming entertainment.
5 years ago
Review: Welcome to the Quiet Room

Based on Suzuki Matsuo’s own award-winning novel, Welcome to the Quiet Room stars former Jpop idol Yuki Uchida as a writer who suddenly finds herself in a psychiatric hospital for a suicide attempt she doesn’t remember. Matsuo directed this film adaptation himself, having previously directed the manic 2004 manga comedy…
5 years ago
Trailer for "Welcome to the Quiet Room" (Quiet Room ni Yōkoso)

Full trailer for Suzuki Matsuo’s 2007 film Welcome to the Quiet Room. Plot: Asuka (Yuki Uchida) wakes up in the quiet room of a mental asylum quiet with no recollection of how she got there. The last thing she claims to remember is taking a bunch of pills before passing…
5 years ago

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