Tag: Japanese film

Weird Japanese films – IMDb

Weird Japanese films – IMDb Very comprehensive list, but doesn’t include so-called “gore” films (e.g., Machine Girl), which he put on a separate list. Oddly enough neither has the classic Naked Blood (1996).

Lessons of Darkness: Cure (1997)

Lessons of Darkness: Cure (1997) Kyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure, made in 1997 but released in the US in 2001, is – with the possible exception of Takashi Miike’s chilling Audition – the single best horror film I’ve seen this century. Kurosawa (who’s not related to that other Japanese filmmaker), is a genre specialist, and he instills…

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Tokyo Family (2013)

– review of the film Tokyo Family (2013) Tokyo Family (東京家族) is without a doubt one of the best Japanese movies I’ve seen in the last few months. The film is director Yamada Yoji’s (山田洋次) re-telling of and tribute to an earlier world cinema masterpiece, Yasujirō Ozu’s (小津安二郎) 1953 classic Tokyo Story (東京物語). Like it’s…

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