≡ Category: Art, Comedy, Drama, Highly Recommended, Japan | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Art
Director: Jûzô Itami
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
How on earth do you make a comedy about the last year in the life of a cancer patient?
Well, if anyone on earth could do it, it would have to be writer/director Jûzô Itami, who specializes in comedies about the darker aspects of society, such […]
≡ Category: Art, Highly Recommended, Horror, Japan, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Horror/ Art
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Year: 1997
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
A murder is committed. The killer remembers doing it but has no idea why. So begins the genuinely unsettling horror move, Cure.
Writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa employs none of the standard techniques for this sort of movie. No music which tells you what you’re supposed to be […]
≡ Category: Art, Fantasy, Horror, Japan, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Horror/Fantasy/Art
Director: Akio Jissoji/ Atsushi Kaneko/ Hisayasu Sato/ Suguru Takeuchi
Year: 2005
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
This omnibus horror film seems to offer some of the pleasures of narrative, but don’t be fooled. Rampo Noir is an art film through and through. Since the stories are only tangentially logical, what you are left with is a […]
