The fourth Kitano release from Third Window Films this year is his moving tale of self-fulfillment which still remains unique in Kitano's career now over twenty years old.
Read MoreJust in time for October, Arrow Video gives this understated J-horror film the care it deserves.
Read MoreThe 2nd horror issue of Cinema Adrift is out. Recommended only for the faint of heart.
Read MoreIn this new feature we take a look at special edition releases of films and highlight the love and care put into the packaging and presentation.
Read MoreThe first South Korean co-production from Warner Bros., The Age of Shadows is easily Kim Jee-Woon's best Korean film since A Bittersweet Life.
Read MoreA genre-blending morality tale, Nerve is destined to be under-seen, underrated, and possibly misunderstood despite being successful on so many levels.
Read MoreCriterion bring the new restoration of Mizoguchi's masterpiece to the US in the form of this barely non-bare-bones presentation.
Read MoreA specific tool to be used for the politically minded filmmaker, here are two examples of filmmakers evoking their country's flag in inventive and meaningful ways.
Read MoreThe Tunnel marks Kim Seong-hun's standing as a modern master of the Korean populist entertainment film, highly crafted and socially minded.
Read MorePark Chan-wook's latest is a return to his home tongue (mostly) but remains a continuation of obsessions present throughout his whole career. It's a slick and classy story of a confidence game with the usual romance and added perversity.
Read MoreCriterion brings this Sisyphean classic to high definition along with accompanying short films and essays.
Read MoreThe return of films with life lessons, both constructive and destructive. Watch, take notes, recreate in personal life, then repeat.
Read MoreArrow 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 MoreJack Virnich writes on the pairing of manga-ka centric film Bakuman and a collection of experimental animated short films presented by Japan Cuts.
Read MoreJoin Oswald Creery on his journey through the golden age of pornography.
Read MorePhoto courtesy of Gil Asakawa.
Uzumasa Limelight director Ken Ochiai gives his thoughts on the Japanese film industry, what draws him to a project, and also recommends some jidai-geki films.
Read MoreBoth films, in their own ways, showcase the struggle against the plastic people and forewarn viewers how they too can defend themselves in case of emergency.
Read MoreMipo O has grown exponentially as a filmmaker with her latest film, a triptych of hurt and redemption. An incredible portrait of the potential of hope and choosing to break from unwritten rules of socially acceptable disengagement.
Read MoreThis take on Kafka's short story is a radical blender in which modern concerns are thrown in with timeless hypocrisies and filtered through the aesthetic urges of one of the last surviving filmmakers of the Japanese New Wave.
Read MoreSatoko Yokohama's follow up to Bare Essence of Life is a film about the joy of creation where drive and ambition equally reward and penalize. A highly original film from any filmmaker in recent memory, Japanese or otherwise, female or otherwise.
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