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...

Caught an early morning screening of The Farewell at Angelika Film Center. While stories about death tend to be fairly somber affairs...

Well, as of today, the New York Public Library has officially severed ties with Kanopy, my favorite streaming service. Sadly, like...

Ever since I experienced the glorious avant-garde weirdness of El Topo a few years back, I’ve been trying to see The Holy Mountain,...

Now that I’ve had time to more fully digest the underlying subtleties of The Image You Missed, I’ve come to appreciate its perfectly...

Went to Metrograph to catch a screening of The Image You Missed, a personal cinematic essay in which director Donal Foreman combs through...

I was in the mood for something completely different today, so I ventured out to Japan Society—I know, I know, that’s not exactly unusual...

Caught a late-night screening of Shadow at IFC Center. This wuxia thriller is set during China’s Three Kingdoms period; thus, its plot...

Caught the final two screenings of Japan Society’s “Other New Wave” retrospective: The Tragedy of Bushido: Unlike last night’s The...

Caught a screening of The Samurai Vagabonds—which, contrary to its title, is not a period film, but a modern-day (well, circa 1960)...

Forgive this brief moment of self-indulgence, but if there’s one lesson I learned as a film student that bears repeating, it’s that...

How does one begin to describe a movie like Antiporno? Well, it certainly helps to have a basic understanding of Roman Porno, a more...