Japan
Earthquake Bird is likely to be but a blip in the filmography of both its stars and director.
In years past, I recommended great horror movies from around the world. Find part one…
Kairo’s ghosts aren’t unearthly terrors, but rather memories of people lost, without names or faces, silently preparing themselves for an eternity of death.
Stylish, savage and supremely funny, First Love is the shock of adrenaline the action genre needs and deserves.
Jack Godwin takes a look at the portrayal of mental illness in anime film The End of Evangelion.
Far from being moth-balled and prosaic, When a Woman Ascends The Stairs beats with the most devastating of lifebloods.
Sonatine, Takeshi Kitano’s riff off the Yakuza genre, helped him gain an audience outside of his native Japan. Read our review to learn more.
Read our beginner’s guide highlighting the career of film director Yasujiro Ozu, a must-see for cinema fans due to his quintessentially Japanese images.
Despite excellent performances from Binoche and Deneuve, Koreeda’s The Truth is rather more conventionally dull.
Tora-san is one of Japan’s national treasures running roughshod over the nation’s norms while still functioning as a lovable reminder of bygone times.
We look back at the history of Godzilla, starting in the 1954 Japanese film, and why the character has had a lasting impact all these years later.
Six short reviews for six Godzilla films that give a solid exploration of Godzilla and his major foes. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
As a live-action Gundam movie, this was very ambitious, but not quite the special many of the Gundam fans were hoping for.
Like Miyazaki, Kosaika focuses on growth as a result of loss and ties it with the spiritual and fantasy world in Okko’s Inn.
The Neglected Politicism of Yasujiro Ozu’s TOKYO STORY
Released just one year after the end of the American occupation of Japan, Tokyo Story obliquely reflects on the changes that came over the country.