From gangster flicks to animation, Japanese cinema has a remarkable track record for taking the genres most regularly (and often inaccurately) associated with inconsequential, youth-targeted escapism and channelling them into mesmerising works that can hold […]
Violent works of shock cinema that seek to cynically appeal to the sadistic (or is that masochistic?) urges of your average gore hound are a dime a dozen, but perhaps no filmmaker has so artfully […]
Dir: Takashi Miike By Chris Owen In a divergence from director Takashi Miike’s usual subject matter and style, 13 Assassins represents Miike’s connection to a more conventional approach to filmmaking and a more traditionally Japanese […]
