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Tag: JAPANESE CINEMA

to sleep so as to dream (1986)
Film Review Physical Media

TO SLEEP SO AS TO DREAM (1986)

An ageing silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter.

by Remy Dean 18th March 202230th March 2022
in the realm of the senses (1976)
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IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (1976)

A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsessive and ultimately destructive sexual relationship.

by Barnaby Page 31st January 20223rd February 2022
drive my car (2021)
Film Review

DRIVE MY CAR (2021)

One day, the playwright wife of a stage actor and director disappears...

by Shae Sennett 28th January 20223rd February 2022
red angel (1966)
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RED ANGEL (1966)

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse struggles to help her patients and falls in love with a morphine-addicted doctor.

by Barnaby Page 10th January 202212th January 2022
sailor suit and machine gun (1981)
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SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN (1981)

A teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father's Yakuza clan.

by Kim Vertue 14th November 20213rd December 2021
yokai monsters (2021)
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Yōkai Monsters Collection (1968-2005)

A review of Arrow Video's Blu-ray box-set 'Yōkai Monsters' Collection, featuring 100 Monsters, Spook Warfare, Along with Ghosts, and The Great Yōkai War.

by Remy Dean 16th October 20215th January 2022
spirited away (2001)
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SPIRITED AWAY (2001)

During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

by Jono Simpson 24th September 20212nd October 2021
blind beast (1969)
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BLIND BEAST (1969)

A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.

by Joseph Shapiro 25th August 20212nd September 2021
yojimbo (1961)
Film Review Retrospective

YOJIMBO (1961)

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

by Remy Dean 26th April 202114th May 2021
battle royale (2000)
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BATTLE ROYALE (2000)

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary 'Battle Royale' act.

by Jono Simpson 23rd April 202128th April 2021
invisible man appears / vs. the human fly
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THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS (1949) • THE INVISIBLE MAN vs. THE HUMAN FLY (1957)

Two unique Japanese riffs on H.G Wells’ classic character, also indebted to Universal’s iconic film series...

by Devon Elson 12th March 202115th March 2021
kagemusha (1980)
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KAGEMUSHA (1980)

A petty thief who resembles a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double, but when the warlord dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

by Remy Dean 6th March 202128th April 2021
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