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Comments Nov 2, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
Bloody Territories – Review

Bloody Territories – Review

The story itself is rather standard fare – several yakuza clans have met to formally disband their crime syndicate and ‘go clean.’ Only the Onogi Clan, well-known for their honorable track record, refuses to give up its hereditary occupation and continues to police its turf. Click for the full review...

Comments Nov 1, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
11 Flowers – Review

11 Flowers – Review

Wang Han, 11 year old boy in the province of Ghizhou is confronted with a runaway murderer. Hiding in the woods, the wounded man takes Wang Han drying shirt and persuades him to help him out. Frightened and fascinated at once, Wang Han and his friends accept to keep it secret from the police. Strange things are happening at school and the police is everywhere. Click for the full review...

1 comment Oct 31, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
The Raid – Review

The Raid – Review

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world's most dangerous killers and gangsters. Until now, the rundown apartment block has been considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. This stylish and smart film could well find an audience savvy to its well-staged and extremely bloody mayhem. Click for the full review...

Comments Oct 28, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
Drunken Angel – Review

Drunken Angel – Review

After a battle with rival criminals, a small-time gangster is treated by an alcoholic doctor in post-war Japan. The doctor diagnoses the young gangster's tuberculosis, and convinces him to begin treatment for it. The two enjoy an uneasy friendship until the gangster's former boss is released from prison and seeks to take over his gang once again. Click for the full review...

Comments Oct 26, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
Exhalation – Review

Exhalation – Review

Clocking in at 21 minutes in length, the Malaysian born, Japan based film maker has a pair of short films on the festival circuit right now, both of which are continuing to build his reputation as one of the finest filmmaking talents to emerge from south east Asia. Click for the full review of this short film...

Comments Oct 26, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
Tokyo Zombie – Review

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...

Comments Oct 25, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai – 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...

1 comment Oct 24, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
Rashomon – 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...

3 comments Oct 19, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
The Face of Another – 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...

Comments Oct 14, 2011  |   Posted by in Movie Reviews
Our Town – 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...



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