Many classic “midnight movies” inhabit the gray area between art and schlock, and Glass Eye Pix’s Depraved is no exception; indeed, this...

I first became aware of Yoji Yamada back in college, when I discovered his three critically acclaimed revisionist samurai dramas—The...

[The following review contains MAJOR SPOILERS; please proceed with caution!] Takashi Miike has always had a penchant for bending,...

I’ve been meaning to watch Tony Scott’s The Hunger for quite some time now (ever since his untimely death, at the very least), and as...

[Minor SPOILERS below; you have been warned!] The tropes and conventions of that distinctly Japanese flavor of sci-fi/action are fairly...

As I stated in my review, One Cut of the Dead is a whole bucket of fun… but it also spoke to me on an extremely personal level. Since it...

The best Japanese filmmakers have always exhibited a talent for putting unique spins on familiar storytelling structures. The Zatoichi...

Just got back in from my final screening of Metrograph’s “Shaw Sisters” retrospective: Face to Face, a Chinese/Japanese coproduction that...

Metrograph’s “Shaw Sisters” retrospective—a special program of Shaw Brothers productions helmed by female directors—has entered its final...

Caught another screening in Metrograph’s “Shaw Sisters” retrospective: The Illegal Immigrant, a romantic dramedy about an undocumented...

Here in the United States, Shaw Bros. is most famous for such martial arts epics as One-Armed Swordsman, Come Drink with Me, and Five...

Caught a screening of Jokyo. Metrograph is showing this omnibus film as part of an ongoing Machiko Kyo retrospective, but all three of...

For my sixth and final screening of Japan Cuts 2019, I saw NIGHT CRUISING, a documentary that depicts a blind man’s attempt at directing...

For my fifth Japan Cuts screening of 2019, I decided to be adventurous and see Experimental Spotlight: Palm of the Hand Cinema, an...

Japan Cuts has reached its penultimate day, and although I’m terribly exhausted following a long week at work, I still intend to sample...

For my third Japan Cuts screening of 2019, I saw Samurai Shifters, a period comedy about a clan that is forced to repeatedly relocate...

Just got back in from my second Japan Cuts screening, Ten Years Japan—a significantly more somber and thematically dense affair than the...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year: Japan Cuts, my favorite annual film festival, has officially commenced! For my first screening,...

Shaw Brothers martial arts. Hammer horror. Two delicious cinematic flavors—but do they still taste great together? The Legend of the 7...

Lupin the Third is beloved both in its native Japan and abroad, but I consider myself to be a casual fan of the series at best. Between...