Story doesn’t suffer nearly as much as I’d have expected in Gisaburo Sugii's animated retelling of the iconic videogame.
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Yangzi’s Confusion
To a young girl, your own family can sometimes be as alien as strangers, in Jue Li’s domestic drama.
Officer Black Belt
A delivery boy learns that kicking people in the throat can help society, in Jason Kim’s buddy cop film.
Busjack
Yoshifumi Fukazawa's bus hijacking movie could really have used Dennis Hopper and a few bombs
Mission: Cross
An expert detective can’t quite figure out her husband’s secret life in Lee Myeong-hun’s spy action comedy.
What To Do With the Dead Kaiju
Bureaucracy once again stumbles against a world-ending threat, but is the satire as dead on arrival as its subject?
Hard Days
Michihito Fujii’s remake is stressful, while eschewing much that might make it engaging.
Love in a Puff
Sparks fly in Pang Ho-cheung’s cute romantic comedy
20th Century Girl
In a world of pagers, video rentals and lax password security, two teens still manage to find love (while doing some casual stalking, of course).
The Imaginary
An imaginary friend faces a very real threat in Yoshiyuki Momose’s animated fantasy.
Maboroshi
A mystical steel mill traps a town in an endless winter, and that’s the least weird thing about Mari Okada’s fantasy romantic drama.
Miss Shampoo
A by-the-numbers rom com is saved by its charismatic leads, and some choice haircuts.