The fabled assassin returns in this non-lethal but much-improved sequel.
Category: Japan
The Fable
A hitman just can’t catch a break in Kan Eguchi’s action-comedy adaptation.
Daughters
A sudden pregnancy divides and unites two best friends in Hajime Tsuda’s quiet comedy-drama.
Big Man Japan
Bigger isn’t always better for a hapless superhero in Hitoshi Matsumoto’s kaiju comedy
Tony Takitani
A middle-aged man tries to live as best he can in Jun Ichikawa’s study of solitude and compulsion “Loneliness is like a prison, that’s how Tony saw it.” I love me a good bombastic action film or melodramatic romance. Cinema is, after all, an audio-visual medium and a movie that can take full advantage of … Continue reading Tony Takitani
Lupin III: The First
Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin III returns guns blazing for his first CG animated adventure.
The Forest of Love
Sion Sono explores guilt, trauma, madness, suicide and abuse with exactly the amount of sensitivity you’d expect.
Fullmetal Alchemist
Director Fumihiko Sori enters the Gate of Truth and shows us that transforming animation to live action can be just as horrific and dangerous as human transmutation.
Homunculus
It surely shouldn’t take a fantasy psychodrama to learn that bad things happen when you drill holes in people’s heads.
Over Your Dead Body
Takashi Miike shows us that when life gives you Iemon, you make Iemonade.
Uzumaki (and the Problems with Adapting Junji Ito)
Uzumaki, the movie, will no doubt be many people’s first foray into the twisted mind of Junji Ito – so does it do him justice?
Ju-on Car
It’s the audience that suffers the most in Hisaaki Nagaoka’s tedious, tiresome attempt at horror.
The Asian Cinema Critic 