Imagine George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead fused with Simon Pegg’s Shaun of the Dead and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what this movie is about. However, based on the manga by Hanakuma Yusaku and written and directed by Sato Sakichi (the man responsible for the Ichi the Killer adaptation), Tokyo Zombie [...]
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Japanese Film Review #14: Sato Sakichi’s TOKYO ZOMBIE (2005)
Posted in Film Reviews, Japan, Japanese Film Reviews, tagged aikawa sho, Japan, japanese film, sato sakichi, tadanobu asano, tokyo zombie, zombies on February 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Film Reviews: Neil Marshall’s THE DESCENT (2005)
Posted in Film Reviews, tagged film review, horror, neil marshall, the descent on February 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One of my favorite horror movies of all time is Neil Marshall’s 2005 film The Descent. Like Pitch Black, The Descent proves that a movie doesn’t need a complicated plot to be completely fantastic. The movie is about six cool athletic chicks that go spelunking, get trapped, and subsequently eaten by mutant cave people. That’s [...]
Film Reviews: David Twohy’s PITCH BLACK (2000)
Posted in Film Reviews, tagged chronicles of riddick, film review, hr giger, pitch black, science fiction on February 16, 2010 | 12 Comments »
In my opinion, Pitch Black (2000) is one of the best science/fiction horror movies out there. Sure, the film isn’t going to win any awards for being the best movie ever made, but for pure entertainment value it’s hard to beat. It’s a little underrated, probably because it stars Vin Diesel. As an actor, it’s [...]
Hatoyama in Poetry
Posted in Japan, Japanese Politics, tagged current events, Japanese culture, Japanese politics on February 6, 2010 | 5 Comments »
In Japan, there is a form of poetry called 落首, which literally means ‘the head fell off.’ This can be read as ‘ochi gaki,’ ‘ochi kubi,’ or ‘rakushu.’ Though it began in the Heian period, it was extremely popular during the Edo period. Because the Tokugawa shogunate fiercely restricted free speech, people used these poems [...]
Goodbyes
Posted in Japan, JET Program, tagged JET Program, life in Japan, teaching in Japan on February 4, 2010 | 5 Comments »
It’s February, which means that the Japanese school year is nearing an end. Last week, I had my final class with my 3 third year Advanced English students. These three boys are a really amazing bunch of kids, I was constantly impressed by their English abilities and interest in Western culture. They all wrote me [...]
Film Review: The Spierig Brothers’ DAYBREAKERS (2010)
Posted in Film Reviews, tagged constantineintokyo, Film Reviews, vampires on February 2, 2010 | 5 Comments »
It’s hard out there for a vamp.
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