Chris D. began watching yakuza films, writing the initial drafts of GUN AND SWORD, the definitive encyclopedia of the Golden Age of Japan...
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Cold Fish (2010)
Cult Japanese director Sion Sono (Love Exposure, MIFF 2009; Guilty of Romance, MIFF 2011) brings us a gore-drenched, pitch black comedy abou...
Audition (1999)
For much of its running time, Audition doesn't even feel like a horror film. It starts almost like a gentle romantic comedy with a mi...
Onibaba (The Criterion Collection)
Deep within the wind-swept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate ex...
Kwaidan (The Criterion Collection)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, Kwaidan features four nightmarish tales in which terror thrives and demons lurk. Adapted from tr...
Hero of Shaolin DVD
I’m a kung fu movie fan of the kind where, providing there’s enough spectacular kicking and punching on show, then I’m happy to forgive a mo...
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Human Lanterns (1982)
A psychotic craftsman pits two rival samurai against each other while designing special lanterns from a disturbing source. Hammer horror mee...
For Y'ur Height Only (1981)
Mr. Giant has kidnapped the brilliant Dr. Van Kohler and is planning to use the Doctor's invention, the N-bomb, to hold the world hostag...
Horny House of Horror
This low-budget Japanese movie somewhat resembles one of the late 80's/early 90's no-budget efforts of American directors like Fred ...
Star of David: Beauty Hunting (1979)
One dark and stormy night, a middle age prison escapee haphazardly breaks into the luxurious mason of a wealthy and privileged family and...
The Seventh Curse (1986)
A young heroic cop in the jungle of Thailand attempts to rescue a beautiful girl from being sacrificed to the "Worm Tribe" she bel...
The Killer Snakes (1975)
A young man who has been beaten, abused, humiliated and laughed at all his life finds that he has an unusual empathy with snakes. He can tal...
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