Analyzing Takashi Miike under the aspect of foreigness, “The Guys from Paradise” marks another entry adding up to his earlier movies like...
Author - Alexander Knoth
Based in Vienna.
Focussed on Japan.
Master's degree in Theatre, Film and Media Studies.
I write to get rid of rose-colored spectacles and to introduce unknown facets of Asian cinema.
A giant spaceship crashed from outer space onto the stormy coast of a small Filipino island. That's how the signal rock looks like. Like an Alien...
A rather unusual flick by Takashi Miike. No detached Body parts, no gory violence. Instead, we get to see a modern fairytail about the downside of...
An earthquake, a wave, a nuclear disaster. The prefectures Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima have been hit the hardest by the 3/11 catastrophe. In her inspirational...
Ever heard of “Konkatsu”? No? Congratulations, because that means that you have not (yet) been part of the very popular trend of spouse hunting. An...
We are living in a superficial world. People get judged by their looks and appearances. Especially in the entertainment industry, this credo is held up high...
Bangkok 1997. Ib's and Boum's families are hit hard by the financial crisis. Their dads, who started a Housing Tower Project together, are now running out of...
Singaporean filmmaker Gavin Lim debuts with a Grindhouse extravaganza starring Sunny Pang (“Headshot”) as a man confronted with his darkest nature...
“Money makes the world go around” was a popular song in Bob Fosse's “Cabaret” about the global economic crisis of 1929. Speeding...
In 1967, Shinsuke Ogawa closes himself in with a group of university students, who occupy the lecture hall of Takasaki University. Over a time span of one...