Japan
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.
Cannon Films attempted to get into the animation market in 1986 – and the result was a hated film that remains out of print to this day.
Before We Vanish is always working in two dimensions at the same time: it’s gross and funny, incisive as a work of modern commentary and blunt as a dozen hammers.
Proving the undead ain’t quite dead just yet, One Cut of the Dead remind us that even though some ideas might sound generic or overworked, it’s ultimately up to the execution
The conclusion to the animated trilogy, Godzilla: The Planet Eater, is as flawed and unsatisfying as the previous entries – and it might be the dullest of the bunch too.
As anime becomes increasingly mainstream in the west, Film Inquiry’s Christina Tucker examines the past and potential future of the genre.
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.