Ventured out to Japan Society to catch a screening of Poem, the third and final installment in director Akio Jissoji’s Buddhist Trilogy...

Although I’m still recovering from a severe cold, I ventured out to Village East Cinema to catch a screening of Keiichi Hara’s The...

My brother gifted me a one-year subscription to the Criterion Channel for Christmas, and since I was stuck in bed with a nasty cold all...

Characters created by H. P. Lovecraft tend to be driven irrevocably mad by incomprehensible cosmic knowledge. Nicolas Cage excels at...

My initial review of Tora-san was already a bit too bloated and unfocused for my standards, but I simply had to rectify my failure to...

I’ve decided to revisit my House of Bamboo review because I somehow forgot to mention that it features one of the most realistically...

Following Rutger Hauer’s death earlier this year, I bought several of his more obscure films, and tonight, I finally got around to...

“Tokyo Stories”, Japan Society’s special showcase of Japanese movies made by foreigners, has entered its final weekend. Despite my...

For the past three weeks, Film Forum has been running a special program of rare (and, in many cases, never before imported) Japanese...

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...