Atragon (Kaitei Gunkan, 1963) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
This essay is part of the For The Love of Film: The Film Preservation Blogathon 2015. The sea boils as …
Japanese Film
Aragami (2003) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
On a dark and stormy night, not long before the Meiji Era dawns in Japan, two mortally wounded samurai (Takao …
Lady Snowblood: Love Song of Vengeance (Shurayukihime: Urami Renga,1974) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A cobbled-together sequel to Toshiya Fujita’s classic is hampered by a storyline that suggests mastermind Kazuo Koike’s playbook was exhausted …
The Great Yokai War (Yôkai daisensô, 2005) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
The idea of Takashi Miike trying to make a youth-oriented fantasy-adventure film is a perverse and intriguing one. The result …
Sakuran (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. A pictorially and aurally creative, occasionally intoxicating film, Sakuran could be described as a native cultural and feminist riposte …
The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru, 1960) Movie Review &Film summary, Cast
Akira Kurosawa also had a taste for the apocalyptic, and here, perhaps more than in any other film except for …
Zatoichi The Outlaw (1967) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The popular hero of a long-running franchise sees his moral presumptions questioned and undermined, and his attempts to wipe out …
Zatoichi meets Yojimbo (Zatôichi to Yôjinbô, 1970) Movie Review & Filmsummary, Cast
The first of the classic Zatoichi films I ever saw, and it’s an unusually classy entry for the series, because …
