≡ Category: Action, Horror, Japan, Movie Reviews, Recommended | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Action/Horror
Director: Kinji Fukasaku/ Kenta Fukasaku
Year: 2003
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
There is no way Battle Royale 2: Requiem could possibly have the same impact as Battle Royale. The cat is already out of the bag. The shock and dismay at witnessing children forced to kill other children for the first time cannot be duplicated, […]
≡ Category: Horror, Japan, Movie Reviews, Worth A Look | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Horror
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Year: 2006
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
I’m going to tell you the plot of Pulse, and it won’t spoil a thing.
The place where ghosts exists is becoming overpopulated, and so the ghosts jerry rig computers as a porthole into our world. But that’s not all. They want to prevent more people from […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Horror
Director: Sogo Ishii
Year: 1994
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Let’s get one thing straight — my rating for Angel Dust does not reflect the artistry of the picture. In terms of shot composition, sound design, acting, writing, in fact all of the formal elements of filmmaking, Angel Dust is uniformly excellent.
The problem, for trash cinema […]
≡ Category: Comedy, Horror, Japan, Movie Reviews, Not Worth Your Time | ≅ Leave a Comment
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 […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Horror
Director: Norio Tsuruta
Year: 2004
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Premonition is really about the horror of being unable to protect your loved ones.
Hideki (Hiroshi Mikami), along with his wife Ayaka (Noriko Sakai) and his daughter Nana (Maki Horikita) are driving home to Tokyo after being on vacation. The family pulls over the side of […]
≡ Category: Art Films, Fantasy, Horror, Japan, Movie Reviews, 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 […]
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Country: Japan
Genre: Action/Horror
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Year: 2000
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
When you start watching Battle Royale, you may be fooled into thinking that you’re in for a fun, if harrowing, time. Not that the director doesn’t play fair–practically the first image in the film is a young girl with the blank stare of madness, clutching a […]
≡ Category: Highly Recommended, Horror, Japan, Movie Reviews | ≅ Leave a Comment
Country: Japan
Genre: Horror
Director: Takashi Miike
Year: 1999
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA HIGHLY RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Audition is the film that cemented director Takashi Miike’s reputation as a serious filmmaker, and not merely a stunt director specializing in gory and violent provocations like Ichi the Killer and Dead or Alive.
Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) wants to remarry but feels awkward about courting, […]