First Love
Takashi Miike’s 2019 thriller sees a boxer (Masataka Kubota) rescue a call girl (Sakurako Konishi) from murderous gangsters. Let’s call it 13 Assassin’s Creed. For his 103rd picture, the insanely […]
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Mary and the Witch’s Flower
I’d like to start this review by crediting Cineworld for trying to resolve the age-old subbing vs. dubbing debate once and for all by attempting to screen a Japanese film […]
Ichi the Killer
One of eight films Takashi Miike made in 2001, this Japanese cult classic follows a yakuza gang whose boss goes missing; for most of us a cause for celebration, but sadomasochistic enforcer Kakihara (Tadanobu […]
Screen Goblin 