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Tag Archives: Japan
Shin Godzilla [Resurgence]
A monster for our time The worldwide success of the American-made Godzilla (2014), Japan’s Toho Studios to respond with yet another Godzilla film of their own. The result is one of the most unique films ever made, both a remake … Continue reading
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Tagged action, blood, explosions, gadgetry, giant monster, godzilla, Hideaki Anno, Hiroki Hasegawa, horror, Japan, kaiju, mad scientist, monster, Movie, mutants, Ren Osugi, Review, Satomi Ishihara, sci-fi
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One Missed Call
Death by voicemail Steven Soderbergh is the creator of odd personal films like Kafka and Schizopolis, but has since “graduated” to the larger budgets of more commercial Hollywood projects like Erin Brockovich and Ocean’s 11. David Lynch directed the sprawling, complicated … Continue reading
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Tagged Anna Nagata, blood, ghosts, gore, horror, Japan, kids, Ko Shibasaki, Movie, psychic phenomena, Renji Ishibashi, Review, Takashi Miike
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Godzilla (1954)
Bikini spawns monster Guest Review by Mike Flores Let me begin by saying if you saw the 1956 American version of Godzilla with Raymond Burr, you have not seen Godzilla. Not by a long shot. Reflecting the U.S. superiority of … Continue reading
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Tagged action, atomic bomb, black & white, Eiji Tsuburaya, explosions, giant monster, godzilla, horror, Ishiro Honda, Japan, kaiju, monster, Movie, Review, sci-fi
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Kill Bill Vol. 2
QT and UT are back for More Revenge Imagine a friend invites you to hear his or her band play. You haven’t heard them play before, so you’re not sure what to expect, but from you’re friend’s music collection you … Continue reading
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Tagged action, blood, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, death trap, Gordon Lau, gore, gun fu, horror, Japan, kung fu, Michael Madsen, Michael Parks, Movie, murder, premature burial, psycho killer, Quentin Tarantino, Review, sequel, swordplay, Uma Thurman, Yuen Woo-Ping
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Crimson Pig
Plane Crazy Porky Japan’s anime master Hayoa Miyazaki loves airplanes, especially vintage aircraft. He showed this inclination in his earlier features Laputa and Kiki’s Delivery Service, but her he let’s his obsession take center stage.
Kill Bill Vol. 1
QT is back for Revenge Quentin Tarantino’s fourth film as writer/director finds him in familiar territory – that is, familiar territory for fans of psychotronic film. A glorious homage to all the exploitation flicks that have inspired him throughout his … Continue reading
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Tagged action, anime, assassin, black & white, blood, Chiaki Kuriyama, Daryl Hannah, David Carradine, Gordon Lau, gore, gun fu, hanging, heads roll, Japan, Jun Kunimura, Kenji Ohba, kung fu, Lucy Lui, Michael Madsen, Michael Parks, Movie, murder, psycho killer, Quentin Tarantino, Review, Sonny Chiba, stab, swordplay, Uma Thurman, Vivica A. Fox, yakuza, Yuen Woo-Ping
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The Happiness of the Katakuris
Mike like Miike Guest Review by Mike Flores The film is about a dysfunctional Japanese family trying to pull itself together by running a bed and breakfast in the hills, far from anyone. A cross between The Sound Of Music … Continue reading
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Tagged action, animation, blood, comedy, gore, heads roll, horror, Japan, monster, Movie, psycho killer, Review, sumo, Takashi Miike, Tetsuro Tanba, zombies
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Metropolis
Anime vitae Osamu Tezuka was so taken with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis that he had to create his own version. In 1949, Tezuka was one of Japan’s favorite young cartoonists. His New Treasure Island series had been a big hit, and … Continue reading
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Tagged action, adaptation, animation, anime, explosions, future, gadgetry, Japan, Katsuhiro Otomo, mad laboratory, mad scientist, metropolis, Movie, mutants, Osamu Tezuka, Review, Rintaro, robot, sci-fi, zap guns
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Battle Royale
40 kids go in – only one comes out Ever watch a “reality” TV show like Survivor (or Big Brother or The Real World) and wonder what it would be like if, instead of getting voted off the island, contestants … Continue reading
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Tagged blood, explosions, gun fu, heads roll, Japan, Movie, Review, sci-fi, swordplay, Takeshi Kitano
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Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
The sequel to Next to Last Fantasy This isn’t the first all-CGI animated film. No, those are old digital hat and common as pixels in a bitmap these days. Plus, a lot of “live-action” films now contain a great deal … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, Alec Baldwin, animation, anime, Donald Sutherland, dystopia, future, gadgetry, invasion, invisible, James Woods, Japan, kung fu, mad laboratory, meteor, Ming-Na Wen, monster, Movie, post-apoc world, Review, sci-fi, space alien, Steve Buscemi, Ving Rhames, zap guns
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