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Tokyo Zombie – Review
Two fulltime slackers who work in a fire extinguisher factory spend their lunch hours training to be jujitsu champions. One day, they murder their boss and dump his body on a Tokyo toxic waste dump. Things suddenly become worse when an army of the undead rises from the waste dump and begin to attack the living. Click for the full review...
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai – Review
Director Takashi Miike's returns in a tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord. Click for the full review...
Rashomon – Review
Before The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, there was Rashomon. Released in 1950, the film was the first to introduce legendary director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese cinema to Western audiences, and went on to win the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival and an Honorar Academy Award. Click for the full review...
The Face of Another – Review
A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist, and obtains an amazingly lifelike mask from the doctor. Soon after being fitted for the mask, he seduces his wife and succeeds. But his wife claims she was aware all along who he was and believed that both were just masquerading together as most couples usually do in different ways. Click for the full review...
Our Town – Review
A neighbourhood is terrorized by a serial killer, who kills and hangs up his female victims in a very distinctive way. When Kyung-ju, a struggling crime fiction novelist, kills his landlady, he stages her death to make it look like the other murders. Realizing that the crime looks like a copycat, he decided to find the killer with the help of his detective friend. Click for the full review...
Tokyo Fist – Review
A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Tajuki, on the subway. Tajuki is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Tajuki might be having an affair with his fiance Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsuda begins training rigorously himself, leading to an extremely bloody, violent confrontation. Click for the full review...
The Funeral – Review
“The Funeral”, despite not coming close to the perfectly timed quirkiness and cheeky satire of “Tampopo”, is a solidly good effort that deserves appreciation. For those wishing to gain an insight into one slice of the Japanese culture, this movie is simply a must. Click for the full review...
Tokyo Sonata – Review
Tokyo Sonata tells the story of a changing Japanese economy, social culture and employment culture and it effects on family. Here it is excellently told by Kiyoshi Kurosawa (surprisingly no relation to the great Akira Kurosawa). Click for the full review...
Wu Xia – Review
Donnie Yen returns in Wu Xia where a sinful martial arts expert wants to start a new tranquil life, only to be hunted by a determined detective and his former master. Click for the full review...
The Sorcerer and the White Snake – Review
The tale here is a familiar Chinese fable about the forbidden romance between a simple kind-hearted man and a snake demon who takes the form of a beautiful woman. And like director Tony Ching Siu-Tong's 'A Chinese Ghost Story', it is set amidst a fantasy world where both humans and demons roam. Click for the full review...
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