Blake Simons on Muck Rack

Blake Simons

Verified
London, Tokyo
As seen in: Yahoo Entertainment, Financial Times, The Guardian, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News Malaysia, Yahoo News UK, IGN, IGN Middle East, IGN Nordic, IGN Spain and
🎥 interview evangelist, freelance programmer, 2026 Daiwa Scholar ✍ romance, japan, animation, queer at @BFI @IndieWire @Variety @TheFilmStage and more

Get in touch with Blake

Contact Blake, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack

Actions

Share this page

Blake Simons’s Biography

Read Full Bio →

Film journalist and programmer with a penchant for interviewing. Expert in contemporary Japanese cinema, romance on film, global queer cinemas, animation, Latin American cinemas, self-reflexivity, dialogues between videogames and film

2026 Daiwa Scholar. Co-director of London International Fantastic Film Festival

GALECA Member. Cineuropa GoCritic '24/'25, Far East Film Festival Campus '24. Founder of Queer Film Nights at King's College London

Blake Simons’s Journalist Portfolio

See all 207 portfolio items →
Growing Pains: A Conversation with Chie Hayakawa on Renoir

Growing Pains: A Conversation with Chie Hayakawa on Renoir

Ahead of Renoir’s U.S. theatrical release this week from Film Movement, I had the pleasure of sitting down wi…

View article →
"It's my life's work" - Suga Munemitsu on Utawarerumono, storytelling, Project Kizuna, and more

"It's my life's work" - Suga Munemitsu on Utawarerumono, storytelling, Project Kizuna, and more

As the Utawarerumono series comes to an end, we look back on the series with writer Suga Munemitsu.

View article →
'All the Lovers in the Night' Review: Sensitive and Restrained Kawakami Adaptation Shimmers Upon ...

'All the Lovers in the Night' Review: Sensitive and Restrained Kawakami Adaptation Shimmers Upon ...

Nothing but life happens in Yukiko Sode's elusive adaptation of Mieko Kawakami's bestseller.

View article →
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma review

The American director's third narrative feature explores the relationship between the spectator and the spect…

View article →
Studio Ghibli's Atsushi Okui On 'Arrietty' 'Whisper Of The Heart'

Studio Ghibli's Atsushi Okui On 'Arrietty' 'Whisper Of The Heart'

The Ghibli veteran shares stories from the making of the beloved anime features, from sunrise shoots to the f…

View article →
Nagi Notes - first-look review

Nagi Notes - first-look review

Koji Fukada explores queerness across two generations in an understated artistic drama.

View article →

Articles

Japan’s Cannes moment signals a new global push

|
By Blake Simons 
| The Japan Times
When Tao Okamoto became the first Japanese performer to win the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress prize on May 24, sharing the award with Belgium’s Virginie Efira for their roles in Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s drama “All of a Sudden,” the honor marked a milestone in Japanese cinema while underscoring its growing international reach.
Open in Who Shared View Duplicates (3) Issue with article?

Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen celebration of small-screen curiosities

|
By Blake Simons 
| Little White Lies
Inside Chronically Online: a big-screen celebration of small-screen curiosities From ‘Charlie Bit My Finger‘ to ‘The Nick Clegg Apology Song‘, Chronically Online brings some of the internet's most beloved cultural touchstones to big screens across the UK. From ​‘Charlie Bit My Finger‘ to ​‘The Nick Clegg Apology Song‘, Chronically Online brings some of the internet’s most beloved cultural touchstones to big screens across the UK.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?

‘Another World’ Director & Producer Explore Life and Death in Award-Winning Animated Feature

|
By Blake Simons 
| Animation Magazine
This article was written for the June ’26 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 359). The Golden Horse-winning feature Another World is a new frontier for Hong Kong’s burgeoning animation industry. The unlikely origins of the project, which will be released by GKIDS in the U.S. on June 5, go back a decade. “The Japanese publisher Tokuma Shoten ran a campaign,” explains producer Polly Yeung.
Open in Who Shared Issue with article?
See all 297 licensed articles (307 Total)

Actions

Share this page

Get in touch with Blake

Contact Blake, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.

Learn more about Muck Rack
 •  Privacy  •  Terms  •  Security and Legal  •   •   •   • 

© 2026 Muck Rack

SOC 2® Certified