Articles Written by Erick Kwon
Heaven’s Soldiers (2005) Movie Review
It’s inevitable that the South Korean movie machine would eventually get around to contributing to the shaping-history time travel movie genre, this time in the form of rookie writer/director Min Joon-ki’s “Heaven’s Soldiers.” As films in the genre usually goes, contemporary characters wind up somewhere in the past, where they happen upon a critical juncture [...]
October 27th, 2005 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MoreSlaughterhouse of the Rising Sun (2005) Movie Review
“It’s such a fine line between stupid and clever.” David St. Hubbins, “This is Spinal Tap” (1984)
The origins of director Vin Crease’s “Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun” may be more compelling than the feature itself. A low-budget horror/psychological thriller filmed in 1971, “Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun” was “lost” for the better part of three [...]
Ichi the Killer (2002) Movie Review #2
On the commentary track for one of his films, director Robert Rodriguez (”Sin City”) relates a story that I’ll paraphrase here: While taking questions about his low-budget debut “El Mariachi,” a critic asked about the significance of a tortoise that crosses the path of the titular character while he’s walking along a stretch of highway. [...]
August 9th, 2005 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MoreThe Suicide Manual (2003) Movie Review
The origins of director Osamu Fukutani’s “The Suicide Manual” may be more compelling than the feature itself. It was derived from Wataru Tsurumui’s non-fiction book “The Complete Manual of Suicide,” a bestseller that’s moved over 1.2 million copies in its native Japan and, depending on your point of view, may have led to scores of [...]
July 31st, 2005 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MoreGodzilla: Final Wars (2004) Movie Review
The last five years have seen the “Godzilla” continuity “re-imagined” no less than four times. While this likely resulted in much hair pulling and teeth gnashing on the part of the more obsessive, “Trekkie”-ish Godzilla fans, it’s also allowed filmmakers to lead the character in new directions, and in the process rejuvenate a series that [...]
July 17th, 2005 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MoreVoices of a Distant Star (2003) Movie Review
“Voices of a Distant Star” is a movie unique in a number of ways, starting with its creation. You don’t think of animation as a one-man operation, but writer/director Makoto Shinkai created his short film almost exclusively on a Mac G4 computer using mostly off-the-shelf software. As a result, “Voices of a Distant Star” impresses [...]
June 11th, 2005 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MoreSteamboy (2004) Movie Review
It’s Manchester, England, and the year is 1866, sometime during the Industrial Revolution. Our hero, mechanical whiz kid Ray Steam, toils as a mechanic at the local textile plant, when one day a package arrives from Ray’s grandfather, Lloyd. Inside is a mysterious ball-shaped metal device accompanied by blueprints and instructions. No sooner has the [...]
June 2nd, 2005 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MoreEvil Dead Trap 2 (1991) Movie Review
Shy and sullen Aki Otami (Shoko Nakajima) is a projectionist at a fleabag theatre in a rundown and seedy section of town, where she’s haunted by fleeting visions of a small boy whom she spots in various places around the building, though no one else seems to notice him but her. One night, she meets [...]
January 24th, 2005 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MoreNausicaa of the Valley of the Winds (1984) Movie Review
“Nausicaa” (also known by the longer title, “Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind”) is based on the manga series of the same name, written and drawn by the film’s writer/director Hayao Miyazaki. The story is set 1,000 years from now, in a so-called Ceramic Age, where the human race is about ready to join [...]
December 21st, 2004 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MoreMisadventures in Hollywood: How Hong Kong’s Stars Lost Their Way in Hollywood
THEY KNOW KUNG FU
Remember the first time you saw “The Matrix”? Maybe you giggled a bit when Neo opened his eyes and said, “I know kung fu,” but when Morpheus replied, “Show me,” you knew it was on. Keanu Reeves and Laurence Fishburne were a little stiff, but the one-on-one duel that followed the “kung [...]
Legendary Weapons of China (1981) Movie Review
At the turn of the 20th century, China is in chaos as foreign imperialists move in and divide the country into neat little pieces to exploit. This leads to the rise of quasi-religious societies/cult militias made up of Chinese “Boxers,” warriors bent on expelling all foreign influences in the country. Many of these boxers believed [...]
November 1st, 2004 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read MorePatlabor: The Movie 2 (1993) Movie Review
“Patlabor 2″, the sequel to 1990’s “Patlabor: The Movie”, examines the unique status of Japan in the modern world. The country is an economic world power, but due to the constitution drafted after World War II by the Allies, Japan is not allowed a military presence outside its borders. Hence, its military, the ones we’ve [...]
October 11th, 2004 | Erick Kwon | 0 comments | Read More
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