The first film I screened at this year’s Japan Cuts festival was Toshiaki Toyoda’s I’m Flash! Which stars Battle Royale lead Tatsuya Fujiwara as Rui Yoshino, a charismatic leader of a religi... Read more
It’s easy to get lost in the vast number of Asian films that are being screened throughout the summer thanks to the New York Asian Film Festival, but don’t forget that one of the... Read more
Yoshihiro Nakamura (Fish Story, A Boy and His Samurai) is one of the most interesting Japanese directors working today so I obviously had to make it a point to sit down and watch his latest... Read more
Talk about a great movie going experience. As I sat in the audience eagerly awaiting the New York premiere of Takashi Miike’s latest film, Ace Attorney, a live-action adaptation of the mass... Read more
Earlier today, the full lineup for Japan Cuts 2012, the NYC film festival held from July 12th to the 28th at the Japan Society, was released and boy is it just as exciting as the NYAFF lineu... Read more
Making its international premiere tonight at the Japan society in NY is a film by writer/director Natsuki Seta entitled A Liar and a Broken Girl. The film is about a pretty high school girl... Read more
What happens when you blow the right arm and left leg off of a tough and angry Yakuza thug? You make him even more bad ass by strapping a M61 Vulcan machine gun to his arm and install an an... Read more
Making its International premiere, and co-presented by both the NYAFF and Japan Cuts 2011, is Yu Irie’s latest film, Ringing in their Ears. The film stars Fumi Nikaido, Kurumi Morishita, an... Read more
My next Japanese review is another film that is being co-presented by the NYAFF and The NY Festival of Contemporary Japanese Cinema, it is entitled Milocrorze: A Love Story. Right off the b... Read more
Based on the popular newspaper comic and anime TV series, Ninja Rantaro Flunks Again, comes this family friendly, live-action adaptation film called Ninja Kids!!!, directed by the one and on... Read more
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