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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1962
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Tale of Zatoichi may not be the most engaging of the Zatoichi flicks, but it is the first, and sets the pattern of the rest of the series.
Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) has been invited to stay at the home of Shigezô (Ryuzo Shimada), […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Horror/ Action/ Comedy
Director: Takashi Miike
Year: 2001
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The most important opening image of Ichi The Killer is the gears of a bicycle whirring in closeup. You can tell that the gears mesh, but they’re moving too quickly to see just how. That’s actually a pretty good metaphor for the movie.
It’s now […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama/ Pinku Eiga
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1972
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Yet another delightful swordplay series from early 70s Japan, Hanzo The Razor has elements similar to both Lone Wolf & Cub and Zatoichi, but with a singularly perverse thrust.
You see, Hanzo is a lawman in Edo, Japan. In the first film […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Year: 1973
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I have to admit, I’m beginning to acquire a taste for the adventures of Zatoichi. These movies aren’t quite as accessible as the Lone Wolf & Cub series because they aren’t as bold visually, in their sound design, in their graphic depiction of […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda
Year: 1971
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Poor Jimmy Wang (Yu Wang), The One-Armed Swordsman, has come to Japan to escape his enemies in China and live in peace. He’s on his way to a Japanese monastery when he meets a family from China, making a living by giving martial […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Swordplay/ Comedy/ Drama
Director: Shintarô Katsu
Year: 1972
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Zatoichi In Desperation, a late entry in the long-running Zatoichi series about a blind masseur and swordsman, is an unusually thoughtful tale, even by the standards of early 70s Japanese samurai flicks.
Zatoichi (Shintarô Katsu) inadvertently contributes to the death of an old woman […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Masato Harada
Year: 2007
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
The DVD cover of Suicide Song is horrifying all by itself. A man has his arm around a woman, their backs to the camera. They are immolating themselves. It would be hard to conceive of a more horrifying image.
Suicide Song initially takes place in a girls […]
