Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Graveyard of Honor (Collector’s Edition)
Two Yakuza Films by two Masters. Graveyard of Honor 1975 and 2002 are put together in this great boxset by ArrowContinue Reading
Tag: Japan
Wotakoi: Love is Hard For Otaku – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
You don’t have to be an Otaku to enjoy the blissful enthusiasm of this Musical Rom-Com. Please pardon the Pulp Fiction clichéContinue Reading
Project Dreams: How to Build Mazinger Z’s Hangar – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
Do not let the long title dissuade you… Project Dreams: How to Build Mazinger Z’s Hangar is an unexpected workplace comedy thatContinue Reading
Kakegurui – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
Kakegurui one of two films from director Tsutomu Hanabusa. This live-action adaptation of the Manga/Anime series is a smashing success. InContinue Reading
Monster Seafood Wars – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
Where Kaiju and Food culture collide is where Monster Seafood Wars makes its happy home. If you’re a fan of Kaiju andContinue Reading
Special Actors – Fantasia Film Festival 2020
Special Actors, Director Shinichiro Ueda’s follow up to One Cut of the Dead is all-together different but just as brilliant as hisContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Hiroshima (Arrow Academy)
Largely out of circulation since its first showing in 1953, Hiroshima is a powerful indictment of the devastation inflicted by the atomicContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s The Mad Fox (Arrow Academy)
The long-unavailable outside of Japan, director Tomu Uchida’s otherworldly masterpiece The Mad Fox comes to Blu-Ray courtesy of Arrow Video. Armed with aContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Shout Factory’s Tokyo Godfathers (Collector’s Edition)
Shout Factory/GKIDS continue their impressive streak of releasing Classic Anime titles. This time it’s Satoshi Kon’s Tokyo Godfathers. The Film The furtherContinue Reading
Marie’s Top Ten Films of 2019
Marie picks her favourites from what’s been a solid, but not outstanding, year for film. 2019 has been a funnyContinue Reading