Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name (Japan, 2006)
Death Note and Death Note: The Last Name have to be seen together as they make up a complete story, which is also an excellent...
Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (Japan, 1967)
Japan Society’s monthly film series The Dark Side of the Sun: John Zorn on Japanese Cinema opened with a rare US screening of cult director...
The Midnight After (Hong Kong, 2014)
Apart from directing a segment of the horror anthology Tales from the Dark 1 (2013), Hong Kong maverick Fruit Chan has been largely absent from...
Killers (Indonesia/Japan, 2014)
Killers may have been saddled with a somewhat generic title, but this is a far from routine thriller which sees a dangerous game develop between...
Throne of Blood (Japan, 1957)
Horror is not usually one of the generic attributes associated with the output of the great Japanese film master, Akira Kurosawa. The horrors of human...
Over Your Dead Body (Japan, 2014)
As a new stage production of Tsuruya Nanboku’s classic kabuki play Yotsuya Kaidan (Ghost Story of Yotsuya) is working through its rehearsal process, its two...