Articles in Japanese Movie Reviews
Hush! (2001) Movie Review
I hate to admit it, but sometimes watching an Asian drama, most notably those from China, Japan, and South Korea, is like watching paint dry, only less productive. Sometimes one can’t help but get the feeling that Asian filmmakers are so enamored with their own brand of moviemaking — stationary long takes, nonexistent motion, and [...]
May 21st, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreTetsuo: The Iron Man (1988) Movie Review
Tetsuo is a 1-hour film in black and white, and tells the story of an unnamed salaryman (Japanese businessman, played by Tomoro Taguchi), who accidentally runs over a jogger with his car. The man goes about his life with his girlfriend, content to forget about the incident, until strange things begin occurring to him. For [...]
May 19th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreKite (1998) Movie Review
Yasuomi Umetsu’s one-hour animation, “Kite” (which is actually compiled from 2 25-minute episodes), suffers from what I like to call Dumb Action Movie Clich’s. DAMC is responsible for a lot of the things that makes audiences roll their eyes. “Kite”, a movie about two young teen orphans who are raised and trained to be elite [...]
May 15th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreMuscle Heat aka Blood Heat (2003) Movie Review
Despite sporting a terrible title, Kane Kosugi’s “Muscle Heat” wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it would be. My Bad Action B-Movie Radar perked right up when I read about the film’s bad guy using something called a Muscle Dome where he pits fighters against one another for the amusement of the mindless masses. [...]
May 1st, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreZipang (1992) Movie Review
Kaizo Hayasahi’s “Zipang” isn’t bad, it’s just irrelevant. There isn’t really much to say about “Zipang” other than that you will either like it or you won’t. It’s one of those movies that defies category, not to mention logic, because it’s just so in a world of its own making that criticizing much of it [...]
April 29th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreBlack Magic M-66 (1987) Movie Review
As long as you don’t expect too much, I suppose Masamune Shirow’s 1987 effort, “Black Magic M-66″ isn’t a bad way to spend 45 minutes. At least 8 years before he would blow the world away with one of the best cyberpunk animation of all time, “Ghost in the Shell”, Shirow’s “M-66″ is indicative of [...]
April 25th, 2003 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreKiki’s Delivery Service (1989) Movie Review
Even if you had absolutely no interest in animated movies of any type, Hayao Miyazaki has a way of convincing you to rethink that notion. Miyazaki’s “Kiki’s Delivery Service”, a 1989 feature about a 13-year old witch who sets off to find a new town to call her own with her trusty black cat Jiji, [...]
April 16th, 2003 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreChoice of Hercules (2002) Movie Review
Masato Harada’s new movie “Choice of Hercules” would probably make more sense re-titled as “The Labors of Hercules”. Like the Greek myth before him, Atsuyuki Sassa (Koji Yakusho), a knowledgeable official with a Japanese National Agency (a sort of domestic defense bureau), is given a set of seemingly impossible labors to perform. For Sassa, who [...]
April 5th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreOnmyoji aka Yin Yang Master (2002) Movie Review
“Onmyoji” (or “Yin Yang Master”) is about wizards at a Japanese royal court (circa 1000 A.D.) that do battle for the fate of the current ruling emperor. On one side there’s Seimei (Mansai Nomura), an effeminate wizard with some powerful mojo and a habit for playing jokes; on the other is Doson (Hiroyuki Sanada), a [...]
March 31st, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreBounce ko Gal aka Leaving (1997) Movie Review
I don’t know what type of box office numbers writer/director Masato Harada gets in his native Japan, but I am almost certain it isn’t astounding. As he did with “Kamikaze Taxi”, a social movie in the guise of a Yakuza revenge picture, Harada once again takes aim at what he perceives as the true underbelly [...]
March 30th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More
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