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Exit 8

By Alan Ng | April 2026

NOW IN THEATERS! Co-writer/director Genki Kawamura’s Exit 8 is based on the Japanese indie horror game of the same name, a minimalist…

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NOW IN THEATERS! Co-writer/director Genki Kawamura's Exit 8 is based on the Japanese indie horror game of the same name, a minimalist puzzle built around a...

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NOW IN THEATERS! In director Kazuya Shiraishi's Bushido, written by Masato Kato, honor is not just a code to live by, but a burden that can destroy...

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Director/action choreographer Yuen Woo-ping created a martial arts masterpiece way back in 1978 with his debut film Drunken Master, starring the legendary...

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Few films demonstrate with such ferocious beauty how sex, power, and cruelty become indistinguishable under authoritarian systems as the Fengliang Yang and...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Director Mamoru Hosoda swings for the fences with Scarlet, an epic fantasy built around a single emotional theme and a whole lot of...

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SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! Makato Nagahisa writes and directs Burn. The dramatic feature follows Ju-Ju (Nana Mori), a teenage girl in Tokyo with a...

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The opening shot of Hideo Gosha’s Tokyo Bordello is of young boys molesting a syphilitic prostitute as she fights her way to the gynaecologist’s...

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In Kyoufu Densetsu Kaiki! Frankenstein, mad scientist Victor Frankenstein (Nachi Nozawa) becomes obsessed with unlocking the mystery of life and death....

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Pull that raincoat out of storage because a big screen spanker has a new release with the 2016 Japanese erotic feature Wet Woman In The Wind, written and...

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NOW ON VOD! Isao Yukisada’s Aroused by Gymnopedies may technically be categorized as a 'roman porno', as it was a film directly conceived to serve as a...

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