Tom Mes' overview of Meiko Kaji's career is more than an overblown Arrow Video booklet even if it doesn't spend very much time in her post-Snowblood career.
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Retro2016: The State of Western Distribution for Japanese Film
Another slow year for Japanese film but there were some great highlights.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, 2002) - Arrow Video
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Just in time for October, Arrow Video gives this understated J-horror film the care it deserves.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection (Arrow Video)
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Arrow Video give Meiko Kaji's greatest and most iconic of her outlaw film endeavors a grand treatment, making it one of the must have releases of the year.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Requiescant (Carlo Lizzani, 1967) – Arrow Video
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A western with Pier Paolo Pasolini is all you need to know.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Eaten Alive (Tobe Hooper, 1977) – Arrow Video
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Fresh off The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Tobe Hooper made this “feel-bad” fun movie about the psychotic owner of a bayou motel and his pet alligator.
Read MoreBlu-Review: The Beast (Walerian Borowczyk, 1975) – Arrow Video
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From the five stories housed inside Borowczyk’s Immoral Tales, stories that feature incest and bestiality, of course he chose the most graphic and potentially upsetting to turn into a feature length film. But from there is able to create something more layered and more mesmerizing
Read MoreBlu-Review: Immoral Tales (Walerian Borowczyk, 1973) – Arrow Video
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Four or five tales of debauchery depending on your ability to use a Blu-ray player's remote control.
Read MoreBlu-Review: La Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri, 1973) – Arrow Video
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Salo and Leaving Las Vegas comes to mind but this film is a beast of its own as these men set out to do what they came there to do, having trucks filled with meats, vegetables, and other essential ingredients unloaded off at the property where every room is an exercise in consumerism of a grotesque exaggeration that only these bourgeois could afford.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Cemetery Without Crosses (Robert Hossein, 1969) – Arrow Video
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A spaghetti western that uses silence just as much as its rousing score.
Read MoreBlu-Review: The Happiness of the Katakuris (Takashi Miike, 2001) – Arrow Video
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Arrow Video release the definitive edition of Miike's musical classic. And they don't forget to give props to The Quiet Family too.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Contamination (Luigo Cozzi, 1980) – Arrow Video
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What if our penchant for skepticism and rational thinking is what allows an alien invasion to begin its preparations right here on Earth? That's what this highly entertaining video nasty posits.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Island of Death (Nico Mastorakis, 1976) – Arrow Video
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When you hear a film has been influenced by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre you most likely will figure that the film will at least have something shocking in it. As to what those shocking things might be you would never in a million years think of the crazy shit that goes down in this Greek “video nasty” Island of Death.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Retaliation (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1968) – Arrow Video
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The second film in Arrow Video’s recent double helping of Yasuharu Hasebe, Retaliation was released a year after Massacre Gun and also features a supporting Jo Shishido. Arrow's extra make this release a useful resource for Japanese film buffs.
Read MoreBlu-Review: Massacre Gun (Yasuharu Hasebe, 1967) – Arrow Video
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1967 was a great year for Jo Shishido. It saw the release of not only what he says to be his favorite film of his, A Colt is My Passport, but also what he will probably be known for, Branded to Kill. Arrow Video, still in the first months of breaking into the North American market, has released another 1967 film starring Shishido.
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