REVIEWS

In a July 2025 article for The New York Times, Carlos Aguilar stated that director Kiyoshi Kurosawa “is to psychological fright what David Cronenberg is to body horror.” Indeed, over the last 30 years, Kurosawa has become a master at weaving sinister, slow-creeping dread into the everyday- elevating the mundane into something almost imperceptibly menacing. However, he has not been constricted to the realm of the macabre. From dramatic comedies like ‘Licence to Live,’ to sci-f

Few directors have so consistently blurred the line between agony and ecstasy as Shin'ya Tsukamoto. Ever since 1989’s ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ fused flesh and metal into a shrieking, psychosexual nightmare, Tsukamoto has been both a chronicler and an architect of urban alienation- a filmmaker obsessed with the violence of existence in an indifferent world. His jagged, intimate films pulse with bodily horror and emotional extremity, but beneath the rust and blood there’s always

Although he didn’t rack up as many acting credits as his friends Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash was no stranger to the...

Yosuke Sasano is a salaryman in Tokyo who is let go from his job at an architectural firm. Struggling in his marriage and low on capital,...

It is summertime, and Masao is a lonely boy living with his grandmother in Tokyo. One day, he finds an address supposedly belonging to...

Mikihiko Bandai is a disco owner whose business has been severely affected by the economic downturn. He is in massive debt to the Yakuza,...

Murakawa is a mid-level Yakuza enforcer weary of the gangster lifestyle, toiling away his days in Tokyo. His superior orders him to...

Hiromi is your everyday Japanese schoolgirl nearing the end of her time in high school. Her three best friends all have a direction in...

A woman by the name of Keiko moves into an apartment with her son, Akira, smuggling in her other three, younger children so the landlord...

A barbaric murder occurs in a love hotel district of Tokyo, and Kazuko Yoshida leads the investigative team, her story interweaving with...

Kibogaoka was once a thriving village built for Japanese returnees from Manchuria, now it's a ghost town but for two: a lady named Yumie...

Takagi is just an average salaryman toiling away in a dead-end job. One fateful Monday, he awakens in a strange hotel room. He has no...

Three years ago, a cult sabotaged the Tokyo water supply, poisoning thousands, before committing suicide en masse. On the anniversary of...

Harry Kilmer is a retired detective whiling away his days at the beach in Malibu. An old friend named George Tanner contacts him with a...

Okuyama is an engineer whose face was horribly mutilated in a workplace accident. Feeling shunned by society and rejected by his wife, he...

Some directors have a clearly defined and instantly identifiable style that makes their films impossible to mistake as the work of...

Asakura is an uptight, obsessive salaryman suffering from excruciating migraines, which a doctor says are related to a trauma from his...

There are many strange movies out there, that defy genre convention and beguile with bizarreness, unpredictability and originality. Were...

One can never be sure what they'll find when going into a Takashi Miike picture. The man has shot so many films in a variety of genres,...

Six years ago, the daughter of accountant Naomi Niijima was brutally murdered. Time has not tempered his grief, and his lust for...