Articles in Japanese Movie Reviews
April Story (1998) Movie Review
The Japanese film April Story, besides having an annoyingly sweet soundtrack, is a 1-hour film. It is a romance film at its core, but has elements of a Fish out of Water movie in its lead heroine, a somewhat naïve girl from the Hokkaido countryside who attends a University in cosmopolitan Tokyo, a drastic change [...]
May 5th, 2002 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreVampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001) Movie Review
My memory of the original Vampire Hunter D, of which Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is a sequel to, is a little hazy. The original came out in 1985 and I saw it somewhere in ‘93, perhaps a few years earlier or later, and I distinctively remember that it didn’t make much of an [...]
April 20th, 2002 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read MoreWhiteout (2000) Movie Review
Setsurou Wakamatsu’s Whiteout is a Die Hard In A… Movie, with a vehicle, location, or situation put in place of the ellipsis. In this case, we’re dealing with a Die Hard In a Dam. Like all subgenres of action, Die Hard In A… Movies have their own set of conventions, including terrorists (or some form [...]
April 8th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreUzumaki (2000) Movie Review
Uzumaki is the story of highschooler Kirie, who opens the film with a brief voiceover introduction. We learn that Kirie lives in a small rural Japanese town with her father (her mother has passed away), and that young Kirie has a crush on her childhood buddy Shuichi, whose father is starting to act very strangely. [...]
March 16th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreRing (aka Ringu, 1998) Movie Review
Let me preface my review by saying that I saw the sequel to “Ring”, “Ring 2″, before I saw the original. Of course this means a lot of things were lost to me (while watching the sequel), one of which was the unanswered question of why people considered this series “scary” or even “horror” movies. [...]
March 12th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreJin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (1998) Movie Review
A movie like Hiroyuki Okiura’s Jin-Roh is why the Japanese are considered the pioneers of animation. Over the last decade or so the shortcomings of American “cartoons” and animation have become painfully obvious when one looks at what’s coming out of Japan now — and even in the past. Movies like Jin-Roh, Blood: The Last [...]
March 11th, 2002 | Nix | 3 Comments | Read MoreWild Zero (2000) Movie Review
When he set out to make what would later become a horror film classic, George Romero, through sheer will and the acquaintance of some foresighted investors, managed to frighten up (forgive the pun) somewhere around $114,000 in order to make Night of the Living Dead. I suspect director Tetsuro Takeuchi, the man responsible for the [...]
February 20th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreAvalon (2001) Movie Review
Pointless. That’s how I feel after finally finishing a First Person Shooter (FPS) game. It doesn’t matter if the FPS was a good game, a bad game, or if it was too hard, too easy, or somewhere in-between. At the end, when the credits roll, and I shut down the game, I feel as if [...]
February 10th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreGonin (1995) Movie Review
A movie like Gonin astounds and fascinates me. Writer/director Takashi Ishii is obviously a very talented man. There are visuals and camera framing in Gonin that just takes my breath away. The man has a great eye for detail and knows how to set up his cameras to convey the point that he wants conveyed. [...]
February 9th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreHana-Bi (1997) Movie Review
Detective Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) is having a very bad week. It starts with the death of his 4-year old daughter, which leads to his wife’s hospitalization and discovery that she has terminal cancer, and while visiting his wife, Nishi’s partner, and best friend Horibe (Ren Osugi), who Nishi left at a stakeout to visit his [...]
January 26th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More
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