≡ Category: Action, Drama, Japan, Recommended, Swordplay | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/ Drama/ Swordplay
Director: Kenji Misumi
Year: 1964
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Swordsman Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) is an odd guy. He’s so used to dealing with scumbags that when he runs across someone who’s decent and moral, he’s amused and intrigued. Such is the case with Asahina, the financial advisor of the Shogunate.
Japan is […]
≡ Category: Drama, Highly Recommended, Hong Kong | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama
Director: Taylor Wong
Year: 1988
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
The Truth, the sequel to The Unwritten Law, is a distinct improvement over the original.
The movie takes place five years after Lau Wai Lan’s (Deannie Yip) acquittal. She’s still a drug addicted prostitute and barrister Raymond (Andy Lau) still doesn’t know that he’s her […]
≡ Category: Ghost, Hong Kong, Horror, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Horror/ Ghost
Director: Tom Lau
Year: 1984
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I have to say, with a title like “The Rape After,” I was expecting a different type of movie. You know, a serial rapist is burning through the female population of Hong Kong, the incompetent cops keep missing him, and it falls to […]
≡ Category: Drama, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Drama/ Suspense
Director: Derek Yee
Year: 1987
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
It’s kind of asking for trouble to make a movie inspired by Dog Day Afternoon, one of the signature movies of Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 70s. When Hollywood wanted to make a realistic picture in those days, there was nobody who could […]
≡ Category: Action, Drama, Essential, Hong Kong, Martial Arts | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Martial Arts/ Drama
Director: Chang Cheh
Year: 1967
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
Amazingly enough, up to the present I’ve only seen one other of director Chang Cheh’s movies, The Heroic Ones, which was absolutely terrible. So, I wasn’t expecting much of One Armed Swordsman, which meant that I was in for a very pleasant […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended, Suspense | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Comedy/ Suspense
Director: Chan Wing-Chiu
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
I’m not going to tell you much about the plot of 3 Days Of A Blind Girl AKA Retribution Sight Unseen. Here’s what you need to know. Mrs. Ng (Veronica Yip) has just had an operation on her eyes and she will be […]
≡ Category: Action, Comedy, Korea, Not Worth Your Time, Romance | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Korea
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Romance
Director: Cheol-hie Park
Year: 2006
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
I make it a rule not to criticize a movie because it isn’t the movie I wanted the filmmakers to make, but I’ll make an exception for No Mercy For The Rude, and I’ll tell you why.
It’s a perfect title. The movie almost writes […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Fantasy, Ghost, Hong Kong, Martial Arts, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Fantasy/ Ghost/ Martial Arts/ Comedy
Director: Ricky Lau
Year: 1986
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I dunno. Maybe I’m just not a fan of hopping vampire flicks, but Mr. Vampire 2 was a bit of a challenge to sit through for me.
The plot really isn’t the problem per se.
Treasure hunter Kwok Tun-wong (Chung Faat) and […]
≡ Category: Action, Bullet Ballet, Comedy, Hong Kong, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action/ Comedy/ Bullet Ballet
Director: Wong Jing
Year: 1993
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When I saw the title “The Last Blood,” I immediately thought of the apocryphal tale concerning movie producer Roger Corman that he used to decide on the title and the movie poster of a film before he came up with a […]
≡ Category: Art, Comedy, Drama, Not Worth Your Time, Thailand | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Thailand
Genre: Comedy/ Drama/ Art
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Year: 1999
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
From the very first frames of Invisible Waves, director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang exhibits an extraordinarily strong authorial presence. The compositions are architectural in their discipline. The color palette is gray and green, with the occasional splash of color, usually a dull red. Ratanaruang persists in […]
