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After a freak bus accident kills all her classmates, surviving high school girl Mitsuko (Reina Triendl) goes round and round a series of alternate realities, in this 2015 Japanese sci-fi/horror […]
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Cure
An amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) uses a cigarette lighter to hypnotise people in this Japanese thriller they should have called Silence of the Lambert & Butler. The 1997 neo-noir has shades of Se7en […]
Pulse
Ghosts enter the living world through the internet in this 2001 J-horror they should have called Ghostbuffers. Pulse emerges from the techno-paranoid wellspring of 1998 classic Ring, updating its supernatural […]
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
A businessman transforms into a metal monster with a drill for a penis in this Japanese horror movie they should have called The Tokyo Groin Saw Massacre. In true Japanese […]
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
Instead of subjecting ourselves to Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, we look back on the original clash of these titans, the dawning of a feud between ancient rivals that […]
Monster (2023)
Monster is not to be confused with the homonymous Charlize Theron film which is about 20 years older and at least 20 times less Japanese. Like Rashomon meets Luce, this […]
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron is supposedly the final film from Hayao Miyazaki, a man who has come out of retirement more times than Rocky Balboa. Set during World War […]
Audition
Nathan For You‘s ‘The Hunk’ meets Stephen King’s Misery in this J-horror classic about a widower (Ryo Ishibashi) who holds a fake audition to find a new wife. Released in […]
Battle Royale
With Junior Eurovision currently in full swing, our attention inevitably turns to another group of competitive children with blood on their hands. A high school class are sent to a […]
Suzume
The new anime from Makoto Shinkai forms a trilogy of sorts with Your Name and Weathering With You. Another nascent couple averts another natural disaster, this time in the form […]
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