japanese

Yokai Daisenso (The Great Yokai War 2005 Takashi Miike)

April 6, 2016

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…
TOKYO GHOST [Image Comics – Rick Remender & Sean Murphy, Matt Hollingsworth 2015]

November 30, 2015 Respond

“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…
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013)

February 5, 2015 Respond

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya is a 2013 Japanese animated fantasy drama film produced by Studio Ghibli and directed and co-written by Isao Takahata, based on the folktale The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Sanuki no Miyatsuko, a bamboo cutter, discovers a miniature girl inside a glowing bamboo shoot. Believing her to be a…
Doomsday Book (2012)

November 13, 2012 Respond

from imdb: “Doomsday Book is an anthology movie, split into 3 different chapters. The first Chapter, entitled Heaven’s Creation, is about a robot who comes alive and follows what happens afterward. The second Chapter, entitled The New Generation, is a story from the point of view of a boy who is now a zombie. The…
Koji Yamamura

November 7, 2012 Respond

Three short animations from the Japanese director Koji Yamamura.
Voices from a distant star (2002)

October 1, 2012 Respond

This 25 minutes short movie or OVA (original video animation) was created by Makoto Shinkai who did 80% of all of it (directed, written and produced) on his Power Mac G4 with his wife providing the voice of Mikako Negamine and his friend Tenmon doing the soundtrack. This body of work isn’t just amazing but the movie itself…
Love Exposure

June 28, 2012

Three emotionally abused individuals from the fringes of society get locked in a convoluted love triangle. Yuu, a Catholic boy searching for true love ends up taking “panty shot” photos of women in public until he discovers Yoko, whom he sees as his Virgin Mary. Yoko, an anti-family, misandrist girl finds that her foster mother…
Symbol (2009)

May 9, 2012 Respond

A man wakes up and mysteriously finds himself trapped in an empty, white rectangular room, wearing clownish bright yellow polka dot pajamas. Where is he? Who did this to him? How did he end up here? Will he manage to make him escape to safety? Meanwhile, in a Mexican dusty town, a green-masked wrestler known…