Month: February 2022

The violent bloody sport of men’s boxing has always been intertwined with an aspirational ideal of creating the desirable virile male body. The player’s sense...

On March 3, 2011, the Oshika Peninsula of the Tohoku Region in Japan became the site of one of the most devastating earthquakes in recent...

The loneliness of a long-distance runner forms the basis of The Sound of Grass, a gentle film about a man striving to find peace from...

Crazy Thunder Road was the punk filmmaker Sogo Ishii’s college graduation project. Toei Studios were so impressed with the film that they picked it up...

Shinya Tsukamoto’s Hiruko the Goblin is an exciting introduction to the Japanese body horror genre. As a film, it tries to be both serious in...

Clichéd orientalist tropes of reincarnations, perceived memories of past actions and guilts exotically revisited and generously hallucinated about, as one lay seriously ill, awaiting their...