As far as I know, Red Sword might be the first film to ever advertise an actress’s breast size in the trailer. I’m actually surprised Hollywood hasn’t gone that far yet, a... Read more
While coming a little later than anticipated, I’m excited to announce that Tak Sakaguchi and Yûdai Yamaguchi’s Yakuza Weapon is finally coming to Blu-ray and DVD! The wildly fun... Read more
Foreign movies aren’t for everyone. Especially when they are in a language you don’t know, thus reducing you to reading subtitles. I don’t mind reading a little bit while watching a movie an... Read more
I’ve already expressed my love of the NYAFF but I forgot to mention how important their co-presenters are, the Japan Society. Over the past five years the Japan Society has run a... Read more
Picture this: The movie 300…but with Samurai. That’s essentially what Japan’s most prolific and interesting director, Takeshi Miike, has done with his latest and most realistic film to date... Read more
If there is one thing the Asian film industry does well it’s that they know how to turn their women into badass fighting machines. And it isn’t just the two or three same stars o... Read more
As many of you know I have become quite a fan of the Japanese splatter films that Sushi Typhoon releases here in the states and the one film I am really excited for it Karate Robo Zaborgar,... Read more
From the Japanese effects mastermind, Yoshihiro Nishimura (Mutant Girls Squad, Tokyo Gore Police), comes an all new low-budget bloodbath of a film that, I think, even Eli Roth would end up q... Read more
Nah I’m just kidding, there’s just a remake in the works. Harakiri, aka Seppuku, is the traditional suicide ritual of disembowelment of the Japanese Samurai. It also happens to b... Read more
NYC ‘Film Comment Selects’ Burke & Hare, Cold Fish, I Saw the Devil and 13 Others
If there is one thing I love more than anything it’s when films that deserved to be shown get shown. And that’s just what Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Magazine’s ‘Fi... Read more