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
Tag: Japan
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
Blu-Ray Review: Shout Factory’s Millennium Actress
Shout Factory continues their release of Satoshi Kon’s amazing filmography with the US Blu-Ray premiere of one of the writer/director’sContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Shout Factory’s Double Feature – Genius Party/Beyond Genius Party (GKIDS)
Shout Factory/GKIDS is back with another collected Anime work. This time it’s the one-two punch from STUDIO 4°C; Genius PartyContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Academy’s Akio Jissôji: The Buddhist Trilogy (Box Set)
Japanese New Wave director Akio Jissôji is also known for his children’s science-fiction TV series – but keep the childrenContinue Reading
And Your Bird Can Sing: Fantasia 2019 Film Review
An Intriguing Tale of Millennial Indifference With a Nod to Richard Linklater Some films lack a strong narrative through-line byContinue Reading
Stare: Fantasia 2019 Film Festival Review
The Ring Meets It Follows in This J-Horror Film That Is All Too Familiar All horror movies are derivative. EveryContinue Reading