Mei Ehara
All About McGuffin (Kakubarhythm). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Tag: Japanese
The Concierge
An all-animal department store caters to the high-end clientele in this superb Japanese cartoon. The Concierge was part of the 2024 Florida Film Festival, an Oscar®-qualifying festival now in its 33rd year.
Irezumi (1966)
Stylish Japanese tale of vengeance with samurais and geishas.
Giants and Toys (1958)
Dir: Yasuzô Masumura (Arrow Video). Review by Phil Bailey.
Shogun’s Joy of Torture
Teruo Ishii’s first torture film gets the love from Arrow Video on a lush new Blu-ray.
Violated Angels (1967)
Kôji Wakamatsu’s 1967 horror film inspired by the Richard Speck nurse murders is still shocking decades later.
Shonen Knife
Sweet Candy Power (Good Charamel Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Terra Formars
Exterminate the cockroaches and secure the future !
Heroic Purgatory
A confusing and idiosyncratic movie about a communist cell in 1950’s Japan and where they ended up in 1970.
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
Japanese female revenge women-in-prison movies have never been so graphic.
Pray For Death
Pray For Death’s protagonist goes total Kung Fu on the bad guys leaving us with a weird mix of On the Waterfront meets Ran.
Peelander-Z
Metalander-Z (Chicken Ranch). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Key of Life
A failed actor swaps places with a professional killer who then falls in love with a driven woman in this plot driven romantic comedy from Japan.
Sanguivorous
An arty and eerie horror film fuses western and eastern ideas of vampirism and looks totally cool as well.
Crown of Love: Volume 1
A little-known 1998 teenage romance Manga gets a reissue.
The Penelopes
Eternal Spring (Vaudeville Park). Review by Ben Varkentine.
The Penelopes
Eternal Spring (Vaudeville Park). Review by Ben Varkentine.
Princess Mononoke
Screen Review by Leo Oiler
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