Inu-Oh

Music gives new life to the deceased in Masaaki Yuasa’s tribute to history, performance arts and hair metal.

The Monkey King

Tired tropes and Hollywood stylings don’t do much to diminish a visually strong and entertaining Wukong origin story.

It’s all dancing, spinning and magical centaur monsters in Chang Cheh’s stage-to-screen production.

Sun Wukong dances his way to victory in Te Wei (et al)’s animated retelling of the Baigujing arc.

The first family of demons take centre stage in Xiong Chen’s retelling of Princess Iron Fan.

A young boy goes through the looking glass and ruffles more than a few feathers in Hayao Miyazaki’s probably-not-final feature.

Jeffrey Lau leaves it way too late to make a sequel to his beloved 90s two-parter.

A mangaka faces the dark, dark past in Kazutaka Watanabe's adaptation of Hirohiko Araki's one-shot comic.

A real-fake shaman and his assistant face off against the past, and some real life spirits, in Kim Seong-sik's directorial debut.

Vampire Hunting has never been so stylish in Yoshiaki Kawajiri's horror fantasy sequel.

Goro Miyazaki uses the Earthsea name, yet fails to wield its power, in his adaptation of Le Guin’s iconic books.

Big theatrics and fancy wirework don’t quite hide the shoddy plot in Donnie Yen’s enjoyable action adventure.