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Yokai Daisenso (The Great Yokai War 2005 Takashi Miike)
Another Miike, this time for your soul – a Japanese movie that finally gets me the same sentiment as The Neverending Story based on the book by Michael Ende. There is a lot of background on the Great Yokai War – finally a movie that brings the work of the grea mangaka Mizuki Shigeru to…
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TOKYO GHOST [Image Comics – Rick Remender & Sean Murphy, Matt Hollingsworth 2015]
“Look I didn’t create the problem. Robotics did the farming, mining, manufacturing, construction… Everything. Left an unemployed population with a lot of free time. So I keep them entertained. I make them comfortable. So I gave them each their own channel. When human life became worthless I gave it Value” – Mr Flak founder of…
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EXAELLA (anime 2011 by Andrew Oudot)
I restarted watching anime after a 4 or 5 year break. Exaella implodes with abyssal nausea, grime and orgiastic megastructures, familiar to the cavernous works of Tsutomu Nihei, so maybe that was my first cue. That being said, I truly feel we have a new and promising breed of anime: a Russian-Japanese-English production directed by…
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Drifting Classroom (1987 Nobuhiko Obayashi)
After the late rediscovery of his surreal horror classic Hausu (1977), Nobuhiko Obayashi was being considered as one of the Japan’s best kept secrets. Drifting Classroom is an unintentional monster of a movie (not just a monster movie!). Obayashi practically massacred Kazuo Umezu manga original, and along the way transformed it into a weird cult classic. The…
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Shield of Straw (Wara no Tate, 2013, Takashi Miike)
I still think Takashi Miike is able to outmaneuver every stylistic cookbook of any kind of genre, new or old, Western or Eastern, if such rules apply indeed anymore. Shield of Straw is both a wink at Tony Scott (Hunger, Domino), as well as samurai and yakuza flicks. Shield of Straw has both melodrama to…