Film Review: Kokuho (2025)
An epic tale of friendship, rivalry and commitment to one’s art, Kokuho is a glorious representation of kabuki theatre and was Japan’sContinue Reading
Tag: Yakuza
Blu-ray Review: Radiance Films’ Japanese Godfather Trilogy (Box Set)
Director Sadao Nakajima’s trilogy of complex and intricately plotted yakuza films makes its Blu-ray debut thanks to Radiance Films inContinue Reading
Film Review: Normal (2026)
Bob Odenkirk stars as a temporary sheriff where a Bank Robbery goes terribly wrong in a small town that isn’tContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s American Yakuza (Limited Edition)
Viggo Mortensen is a part of the American Yakuza. New to Blu-ray from Arrow Video. The Films What if I told youContinue Reading
Blazing Fists: Fantasia Film Festival 2025
Takashi Miike is back with the crowd-pleaser Blazing Fists. Playing Fantasia Film Festival 2025. Prolific filmmaker Takashi Miike is known for hisContinue Reading
Honeko Akabane’s Bodyguards: Fantasia Film Festival 2025
John Hughes meets John Wick, and you add a dash of Bring it On, and you get deranged and entertaining Honeko Akabane’sContinue Reading
Streaming Review: Ghost Killer
Director Kensuke Sonomura’s Ghost Killer is John Wick meets Patrick Swayze’s Ghost. Action director Kensuke Sonomura has given the Baby Assassins series its speedy impactful fight choreography. HisContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal (Limited Edition)
Arrow Video has packed 9 of Japanese V-Cinema (their equivalent of DTV) Action Cult Classics in one box set: V-CinemaContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: 88 Films’ Yakuza Wives
Yakuza Wives details how two sisters are torn apart as a proxy war erupts in this searing crime thriller. New to Blu-rayContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Radiance Films’ Hokuriku Proxy War
Hiroki Matsukata stars as the psychopathic yakuza member who starts the Hokuriku Proxy War in director Kinji Fukasaku’s bloody action thriller. New toContinue Reading