Review: The Little Girl of Hanoi
The Little Girl if Hanoi is a work of North Vietnamese propaganda. Which isn’t a judgment of the film’s quality, but rather a neutral...
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The Little Girl if Hanoi is a work of North Vietnamese propaganda. Which isn’t a judgment of the film’s quality, but rather a neutral...
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Although he is widely regarded as a pioneer of the jidaigeki genre, Daisuke Ito’s directorial efforts remain elusive in the West. Fans...
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I’ll say this for Torso : it wastes little time; within the first ten seconds of the opening credits, a woman has already removed her...
Like many a follow-up to a bona fide cult classic, Tokyo: The Last War (sequel to Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis ) is widely considered to...
Master Gardner opens with the quintessential Paul Schrader image: a character in an otherwise empty room hunched over a writing desk,...