The Seaside Motel (Japan, 2010)
The latest guest to check-in at the shambolic Seaside Motel – which is actually located in a mountain region – is Masayuki (Toma Ikuta), a...
A Night In Nude (Japan, 1993)
The following review of A Night In Nude originally appeared in my column “Trash Taken Seriously” in Asian Cult Cinema Issue #35 in the spring...
The Unjust (South Korea, 2010)
The Unjust is a propulsive police corruption saga that finds director Ryoo Seung-wan recapturing the relentless pace and gallows humour of his earlier hit The...
The City of Violence (South Korea, 2006)
Tung Tae-soo (actor/stuntman Jeong Du-hung), a detective in Seoul, returns to his hometown for the funeral of Ho Wang-jae, one of four friends from his...
Horny House of Horror (Japan, 2010)
Jun Tsugita’s pink film/horror hybrid Horny House of Horror goes all Grand Guignol on us with its absurdly copious amounts of blood, which sprays with...
Milocrorze: A Love Story (Japan, 2011)
Milocrorze: A Love Story, in its North American Premiere, will be the Opening Night Presentation at the 10th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, which...
One Moment of Asia: Roman Gekijo
Roman Gekijo (pinku eiga theater) – Shinbashi, Tokyo...
BKO: Bangkok Knockout (Thailand, 2011)
BKO: Bangkok Knockout, the title of Panna Rittikrai and Morakot Kaewthanee’s kinetic B-movie action spectacular, is an unabashedly crude and blunt statement of purpose, much...
Cromartie High: The Movie (Japan, 2005)
I had no idea. Never read the manga. Never saw the anime. But coming in cold to Cromartie High: The Movie was absolutely no problem....
Connected (Hong Kong, 2008)
A Benny Chan actioner, in turn a remake of David R Ellis’s 2004 film Cellular, Connected stars Louis Koo who plays Bob, an average Joe...