Plants are dragons and the past is the future in Keiichi Sugiyama’s equal parts bonkers and boring animated sci-fi.
Tag: Kenichi Endo
Like a Dragon
Organised crime has never been so chaotic in Takashi Miike’s video game adaptation.
Gozu
A young yakuza falls through the looking glass in Takashi Miike’s bizarre opus.
Dead or Alive 2: Birds
Miike trades gruesome violence with quiet contemplation in the second film of the trilogy.
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
It’s better than a lot of Miike’s similar gangster films, but that doesn’t mean Deadly Outlaw: Rekka is more exciting
The Great Yokai War
A strange but ultimately fun blend of source materials makes for an enjoyable fantasy film
The Asian Cinema Critic 