Revenge

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Cloistered Nun: Runa’s Confession dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   February 26, 2008   ⋅   Comment now

Cloistered Nun: Runa’s Confession marks our third and final review from Kino’s Masaru Konuma/Nikkatsu collection. The previous two films prompted quite different reactions from me, but from what I’ve seen, it looks like this third film was the charm. Runa’s Confession is not only the most cinematic of the three, but also provides a decent [...]

Death Proof movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 22, 2007   ⋅   Comments [19]

At just 80 minutes Death Proof is Quentin’s shortest film to date, and somehow his most interminable. Overly chatty and under-compelling, its tale of a stuntman/serial killer (a vehicular-homicidal maniac) lulls when it should wow and stalls when it should kick into high gear. The film is broken into two halves, the first concerning a [...]

Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 movie review

by Chris   ⋅   April 15, 2007   ⋅   Comments [3]

Way back in high-school, Female Convict Scorpion Jailhouse 41 and Black Lizard served as my introduction to 1970’s Japanese exploitation cinema. I was a bit reluctant to review this film, lest my opinion be clouded by rosy glasses and nostalgia. But, having gone back to the film again, I believe I’m prepared, and my love [...]

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade dvd movie review

by Chris   ⋅   February 22, 2007   ⋅   Comments [2]

Being that I’ve already reviewed Shinobi: Heart Under Blade, and professed my deep love for it in our Best of 2006 list, I’m going to launch straight into the DVD review.
Funimation presents Shinobi: Heart Under Blade in an absolutely pristine 2.35:1 transfer (truly the best I’ve seen) representing its theatrical aspect ratio, with your choice [...]

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade dvd Prize Pack contest!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   January 27, 2007   ⋅   Comments [6]

If you read this site, you know I love Shinobi: Heart Under Blade. In fact, we placed it on our Best of Year list for 2006. Now, thanks to Funimation and Filter Magazine, you to can enjoy the awesomeness that is Shinobi (If you haven’t already, check out my review of the film, here.) We [...]

Shinobi: Heart Under Blade movie review

by Chris   ⋅   June 9, 2006   ⋅   Comments [2]

Based on the novel by Futaro Yamada, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade (aka: Shinobi 2005, nothing to do with the SEGA game) is a classic tale of star crossed lovers in Tokugawa era Japan. Oboro and Gennosuke, born to opposing ninja clans locked in a centuries long quiet war, have found a love that flies in [...]

Female Prisoner 701 Scorpion: Grudge Song // movie review

by Chris   ⋅   June 1, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

The last Scorpion entry starring Meiko Kaji is certainly the least of the films. Moving forward sans director Shunya Ito, this installment finds Sasori on the run from yet another gung-ho police inspector, facing threat of execution, and falling in love. That’s right, Sasori in love. When the film starts the police are hot [...]

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable movie review

by Chris   ⋅   May 14, 2006   ⋅   Comment [1]

These days the term fierce has been so overused by hip-hop artists, Tyra Banks, and Inside Hollywood celebrity-trash mongers, it seems to have lost its meaning. But if one were forced to find a dictionary definition personification of the word fierce, that one person that would fit the bill would have to be Meiko Kaji [...]

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (aka Joshuu 701-go: Sasori) movie review

by Chris   ⋅   July 21, 2005   ⋅   Comments [4]

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion is the first film in the Scorpion trilogy, as well as the first film by director Shunya Ito. Based on the manga of the same name, The story follows Nami Matsushima (Meiko Kaji), the fiercest inmate in the Japanese women’s prison system, and for that matter, all women in prison films. [...]

Samurai Fiction — movie review

by Kris   ⋅   January 16, 2004   ⋅   Comments [3]

THIS MOVIE SLAUGHTERS KILL BILL and KUROSAWA! Just give reputed rebel Hiroyuki Nakano 45 days and he’ll return with a completely unique, extensively tricked-out treasure that indulges its audience in everything that works well in cinema today, as well as many decades past. Innovative, incredible and awe-inspiring, this film combines seemingly spontaneous shots with amazingly [...]

Kill Bill vol. 1 — he-said-she-said — movie review — screener! — +japanese-cut dvd!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   October 7, 2003   ⋅   Comments [12]

WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS?
HE SAID: Kill Bill Vol. 1 is Quentin Tarantino’s loveletter to exploitation, grindhouse, and overall bad-taste cinema. He references absolutely everything he loves: De Palma, Switchblade Sisters, Shaw Brothers films (it actually opens with the shaw scope logo), Japanese samurai splatter, Italian Giallos, Master of the Flying Guillotine, etc, [...]

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