On August 7th, Well Go USA released the John Woo produced Taiwanese historical epic, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, on Blu-ray and DVD. Dubbed as the most expensive Taiwanese product... Read more
Things always seem to come full circle. Clint Eastwood‘s first major western film, A Fistful of Dollars, was an uncredited remake of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa samurai film Yoji... Read more
While up in Montreal for the Fantasia International Film Festival, I made it a point to try and catch up with the imaginative mind of one of Japan’s low budget splatter film masters, Norboru... Read more
Of the 16 or so films that I saw at this year’s Fantasia Fest, one of my favorites was writer/director Shinobu Yaguchi’s Robo-G, a quirky and comical drama about a man pretending to be a rob... Read more
I loved Takesgu Kitano’s Outrage. So much so that I jumped out of my seat when I heard that a sequel was actually going to be made, titled Outrage Beyond. Recently a whole bunch of li... Read more
This year, Fantasia Fest attendees were given a very special opportunity to attend the world premiere of Noboru Iguchi’s latest wacky, high concept feature, Dead Sushi, and boy did every sin... Read more
Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack, where do I begin? After debating for two hours with a few beers in hand, the group of people I was relaxing with decided they wanted to tag along for a film which I... Read more
Did you ever see the episode of South Park called “The China Problem” where George Lucas and Steven Spielberg rape Indiana Jones? All the boys were so pissed off and upset that they raped h... Read more
It’s well known that Takashi Miike is one of the world’s most prolific directors, so it should come as no surprise that the director has decided to revisit the musical genre with For Love’s... 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
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