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Violent Panic: The Big Crash

By Josiah Teal | November 2024

Kinji Fukasaku has been a notable director of Japanese cinema since the 1960s. Most famous for his crime and chaotic action films,…

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Kinji Fukasaku has been a notable director of Japanese cinema since the 1960s. Most famous for his crime and chaotic action films, Fukasaku made a name for...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Ushimitsu no mura (Village of Doom), directed by Noboru Tanaka, was originally released in 1983 and saw a new release on Blu-ray from...

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NOW IN THEATERS! An investigative journalist in Japan is forced to investigate her own sexual assault in Shiori Ito's documentary film, Black Box...

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Daisuke Miyazaki's Plastic follows two teenagers over the course of four years. 2018 was a year of optimism. Ibuki (An Ogawa), a teenager with an old soul,...

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We're jumping back into the way-back machine to 1956 to revisit the second first appearance of the monster of all monsters in the American-altered classic,...

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HOLLYSHORTS FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! The legendary Takashi Miike directs Midnight. The 18-minute short is an adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's manga written...

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DANCES WITH FILMS 2024 REVIEW! An American's "shady" past rubs off on others in Virginia de Witt and Koji Ueda's short film Karita. Nico (Virginia de...

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Japan is a conservative nation. Further, it has a population crisis. This is to say the population is dwindling. Accordingly, I imagine it really irks the...

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What is a monster? I mean, sure, we know the traditional definition, but in the films of Hirokazu Kore-eda, it has to mean something a little more. It’s...

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Finding your soulmate is a million-to-one proposition. Finding your soulmate halfway around the world is like shooting a bullet with a bullet. In Joshua...

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