Far East Asian Cinema, Film Festival, Japanese cinema, New Release - February 8, 2022

Drive My Car Oscar Nominations 2022

Here are Oscar 2022 nominations in full. The 94th Academy Awards ceremony takes place Sunday 27th March at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood.

Funky Forest / Warped Forest

With Third Window Films releasing Funky Forest in 2022, rather than us tell you about how crazy this film is, from the country of crazy films, we asked Third Window's Managing Director, Adam Torel, to tell us in his words about the film and what's special about their release... Funky Forest is one of those cult classics that has a loyal following out there, but was a huge bomb in Japan, which is one of the reasons why getting it out in HD and on bluray was a complicated process. Though, if putting all the time, money and effort...

Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell aka The Japanese Evil Dead - Review

Here's an interview with director and star Shinichi Fukazawa on Attack from Planet B. Director: Shinichi Fukazawa ‬ Cast: ‭Shinichi Fukazawa, Asako Nosaka, Masaaki Kai Language: Japanese w/English subs Country: Japan Year: 2014 Rating: 15 Available on Amazon | Terracotta Shop | Terracotta VOD

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Asian Horror, J-Horror, Japanese cinema - August 13, 2021

What happened to Japanese Horror? - Discussion

What happened to Japanese horror?

Taking a condensed look at the long cinematic history of Japanese horror, starting with the traditional Kaidan stories like in Kuroneko, the cyberpunk era with Tetsuo: The Iron Man, to the peak of the J-horror boom with Ringu

Ask Junichi Yamamoto 山本淳 Anything

The Japanese director of cult-classic Meatball Machine, Junichi Yamamoto answers your questions in our open "ask me anything" session: 1. How did you come up with the story of the Meatball Machine? Why did you decide to make a movie like this? 3. What influenced you in making this film, along with the 1999 edition? I think there is an influence from "Tetsuo" directed by Shinya Tsukamoto. But I wonder if there is anything else, what are the other sources?A. The 1999 edition is my second independent film. The first was a horror movie titled "Linga Mania" with the...