RED ANGEL (1966)
byDuring the Second Sino-Japanese War, a young army nurse struggles to help her patients and falls in love with a morphine-addicted doctor.
JAPANESE CINEMA
SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN (1981)
byA teenage delinquent schoolgirl named Izumi Hoshi inherits her father’s Yakuza clan.
Yōkai Monsters Collection (1968-2005)
byA 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.
SPIRITED AWAY (2001)
byDuring 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.
BLIND BEAST (1969)
byA blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.
YOJIMBO (1961)
byA crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
BATTLE ROYALE (2000)
byIn 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.
THE INVISIBLE MAN APPEARS (1949) • THE INVISIBLE MAN vs. THE HUMAN FLY (1957)
byTwo unique Japanese riffs on H.G Wells’ classic character, also indebted to Universal’s iconic film series…
KAGEMUSHA (1980)
byA 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.
HOWL’S MOVING CASTLE (2004)
byWhen a young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with an insecure young wizard and his companions in his mobile castle.
VERSUS (2000)
byThere are 666 portals that connect this world to the other side, concealed from humanity. Somewhere in Japan exists the 444th portal… the Forest of Resurrection.
TAMPOPO (1985)
byA truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business.