Japan

Attack On Titan: End Of The World

In an increasingly prevalent trend among Japanese blockbusters, Attack on Titan: End of the World arrives just weeks after its predecessor. Read my review Read More
14th New York Asian Film Festival Review Round-Up

The New York Asian Film Festival kicks off tomorrow, boasting an impressive array of selections from the best of Asian Cinema past and present. Below I’ve collected together my reviews… Read More
Parasyte – Completion

Much like how Parasyte Part 1 suffered from being all set-up, so its sequel, Parasite – Completion, is similarly hobbled by being mostly a series of climactic stand-offs and philosophical… Read More
Parasyte – Completion

Much like how Parasyte Part 1 suffered from being all set-up, so its sequel, Parasite – Completion, is similarly hobbled by being mostly a series of climactic stand-offs and philosophical… Read More
R100

The astonishingly surreal work of Japanese comedian-turned-filmmaker Matsumoto Hitoshi has long been championed here at TwitchFilm, and in some ways his fourth feature film – R100 – transcends anything he… Read More
R100

The astonishingly surreal work of Japanese comedian-turned-filmmaker Matsumoto Hitoshi has long been championed here at TwitchFilm, and in some ways his fourth feature film – R100 – transcends anything he… Read More
The Tale Of Zatoichi Continues

Brisk, no-nonsense sequel that pits Zatoichi against a clan of disgruntled yakuza and government officials, while a mysterious wandering bandit also takes an interest, who is revealed to be the… Read More
Genocide

Also known as War of the Insects, this is a real sci-fi horror oddity from Criterion’s Eclipse series, When Horror Came to Shochiku, about a swarm of marauding bugs capable… Read More
Backwater

Apparently based on a prize-winning novel, this is a coming-of-age story following a young lad Toma (Suda Masaki), who lives with his abusive father and younger lover, while his mother… Read More
Jossys

The latest from Kids Police director Fukuda Yuichi is a humorous and mostly successful tale of five young women who are all but coerced into becoming a secret crime fighting… Read More
Those Gathered

Pinku director Imaoka Shinji (Underwater Love) gives us his own version of Richard Linklater’s Slacker, as we follow a string of characters in a series of vignettes, each focusing on… Read More
Miss Zombie

Sabu’s latest is a bleak, expressionistic, low budget retelling of Kim Ki-Young’s The Housemaid. With zombies. Read More
R100

The latest work of absurdist humour from Japanese comedian Matsumoto is extreme, even by his own bafflingly delightful standards. On the face of it, R100 is set-up as an outrageous… Read More
Kids Police

Another one-gag movie from Fukuda Yuichi that gets by on the strength of its child actors long after the joke gets wearisome. Read More
Why Don’t You Play In Hell?

Japanese director Sono Sion is back to his delirious best in this frenetic free-wheeling ode to filmmaking and yakuza cinema. Two feuding gangs look to settle their lingering scores in… Read More
Greatful Dead

Indie director Uchida Eiji looks to finally have scored a breakthrough hit with this darkly comic exploration of neglect, obsession and voyeurism that successfully mixes exploitation with an astute social… Read More
Hello, My Dolly Girlfriend

After losing his job, a lowly office lad attempts to drown his sorrows, only to be thrown out of a girly bar. He manages to anger a gang of yakuza… Read More
Red Beard

For this month’s Full Disclosure over at Twitch, my July entry on the list of shame was Kurosawa Akira’s 1965 drama, Red Beard – his last collaboration with actor Mifune… Read More