During this pandemic, we have watched and reviewed a rather large number of “quarantine films”, since the creativity of many directors could not be...
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The Fantasia International Film Festival is proud to announce the first wave of programming for its upcoming 25th edition, set again to take place as a virtual...
What can we do to fight an invisible enemy like Covid-19? Japanese special-effects wizard Higuchi Shinji thinks we should use our Godzilla toys as magic...
Yohta Kawase was born on December 28, 1969 in Kawasaki, Japan. He started his career as assistant director to Shozin Fukui in the 90s, but soon turned into...
Tom Mes, in his book “Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto” writes: The international breakthrough of Tsukamoto and Tetsuo came at a time when...
Fans of slapstick, somewhat perverted and definitely non-PC style of humor will definitely have a blast
Since the pandemic did not disrupt the production of films in the Japanese movie industry, at least not as much as in other countries, 2020 was another year...
A pointy critique of the Japanese mentality of compliance through an experimental approach
After films like “Hentai Kamen 1,2” and the two Gintama adaptations, Yuichi Fukuda toned down his extreme style and decided to deal with a...
Based on the homonymous manga by Takahashi Hiroshi (also author of the “Crows” manga, which Miike adapted in two movies), Q.P. is another TV series...