- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 5 November 2012
The Lone Wolf Legacy, Part 2 – Shogun Assassin, the Bastard Cub
Part 2 in Tom Mes's series on the ongoing wanderings of Lone Wolf and Cub, post-Baby Cart.
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- Film Review
- Published
- 18 November 2012
Saudade
- Year
- 2011
A working class odyssey and an indie film that forms a reason to rejoice.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 18 November 2012
Lesson of Evil
- Year
- 2012
A bloodbath from Takashi Miike, but not quite like any you've seen before.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 18 November 2012
World’s End / Girlfriend
- Year
- 2004
Overlooked by many, an engaging and warm rom-com free of its genre's usual trappings.
- Category
- Film Review
- Published
- 14 November 2012
Heat Haze Theatre
- Year
- 1981
Seijun Suzuki's second installment in his hypnotic and little-seen Taisho trilogy.
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- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 24 October 2012
Remembering Koji Wakamatsu (1 April 1936 – 17 October 2012)
Jasper Sharp laments the passing of a unique figure in world cinema.
- Category
- Feature
- Published
- 6 October 2012
Okinawa Movie Festival 2012
Jeff Hammond reports from a recent addition to the Japanese festival scene.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 3 September 2012
Tokyo Cyberpunk: Posthumanism in Japanese Visual Culture
Steven T. Brown's inspiring and long-overdue exploration of a genre that remains relevant.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 13 May 2011
Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji
Examining Steven C. Ridgely's new study of one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures in Japanese film and art.
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- Book Review
- Published
- 14 March 2011
A Page of Madness: Cinema and Modernity in 1920s Japan
Aaron Gerow clarifies the many mysteries and misconceptions surrounding Teinosuke Kinugasa's silent classic.
- Category
- Book Review
- Published
- 10 August 2010
Sessue Hayakawa: Silent Cinema and Transnational Stardom
Daisuke Miyao's fascinating study explores the life and career of the world's first Japanese movie star.
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