Welcome to the Quiet Room — he said, she said — movie review — early!

Suffice it to say our main character goes away with far more than a flippant non-sequitur regarding their time with the kooky girls of Ward C.

Nightmare Detective — movie review

Director: Shinya Tsukamoto
Starring: Hitomi, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinya Tsukamoto, Yoshio Harada, Ren Osugi
Genre: Japan, Horror, Supernatural, Splatter

Note: This was originally going to be an “in-brief” review, but it soon ballooned out of control. It’s not as polished as I would like, but it is what it is. Enjoy.
Taking cues from Nightmare on Elm Street, The [...]

Blind Beast vs. Killer Dwarf dvd review

With this weekend of New Line’s manufactured “cult” release, some of you may be hankering for the real thing. A film which plays by its own rules, flaunts its questionable tastes, is made by the skin of its teeth, and throws convention to the wind; a genuinely singular experience a la Liquid Sky or The [...]

Marebito — movie review

A friend once jokingly said, “if you expect the worst from the world, you’ll never be disappointed”. Such must be the mantra of paranoid psychopaths like Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto, director of Tetsuo, actor in Ichi the Killer) who wanders through Tokyo with his only friend (a video camera) and a supposed mission: to find others [...]

Ichi the Killer (aka: Koroshiya 1) — he said, she said — movie review

WHAT’S A HOMICIDAL PSYCHOPATH TO DO?
SHE SAID:
Yakuza boss Anjo has been eviscerated. Entrails are scattered across the floor, ceiling, even the fish tank. A clean-up crew of rejected Yakuza erases every trace, including 300 million yen. But they have seen this all before; they are the ones who orchestrated it +have tidied up previous [...]