Kurosawa Kiyoshi should be considered his own genre. While primarily known for his horror films in the West, he got his start with pinku eiga movies (like many other Japanese directors) then moved into yakuza territory before making the switch to horror. Highly skilled, Kurosawa can successfully move between genres but every film he has made [...]
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Japanese Film Review: Kurosawa Kiyoshi’s RETRIBUTION (2006)
Posted in Film Reviews, Japanese Film Reviews, tagged constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, film, film review, Film Reviews, horror, J-horror, japanese film, Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Retribution on February 20, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Japanese Film Reviews: Yaguchi Shinobu’s ADRENALINE DRIVE (1999)
Posted in Film Reviews, Japanese Film Reviews, tagged adrenaline drive, constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, film, film review, Film Reviews, japanese film, yaguchi shinobu on February 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
ADRENALINE DRIVE is one of the first movies I watched when I was initially getting into Japanese film. Back in 2000, VHS still reigned supreme and it was pretty difficult to get your hands on Japanese movies in Colorado. Upon realizing that I had exhausted most of the sci-fi movie selection at the local Hollywood [...]
Feminism in Horror Film: Dead Wet Girls and Onryō
Posted in Film Reviews, Japan, Japanese Film Reviews, tagged constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, critical essay, film, film review, Film Reviews, ghosts, horror, J-horror, Japan, japanese film, JU-ON, Kwaidan, Nakata Heideo, Oiwa, Okiku, onryo, Shimizu Takashi, The Grudge, The Ring, yokai, yotsuya kaidan, yurei on January 23, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Horror is typically regarded as the least feminist genre of film; a genre that routinely objectifies, sexualizes, tortures, rapes and murders women and girls. However, if viewed from a different angle, horror films often feature story lines that grant wronged women the power and agency (in death) to respond to the injustices done to them [...]
Film Review: Eli Craig’s TUCKER & DALE VS. EVIL (2010)
Posted in Film Reviews, tagged alan tudyk, constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, eli craig, film, film review, Film Reviews, horror, tucker and dale vs. evil on December 2, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is one of the best movies you will see all year and everyone should watch it. Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil is the funniest, smartest, and most lighthearted satire of horror movie tropes to be released since Shaun of the Dead. Playing with some of the most tiresome and common clichés of slasher movies, this [...]
Film Review: Pascal Laugier’s MARTYRS (2008)
Posted in Film Reviews, tagged constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, film, film review, Film Reviews, French horror, horror, Martyrs, Pascal Laugier on September 27, 2010 | 19 Comments »
☆☆ If you haven’t seen Martyrs, I would STRONGLY recommend that you watch it without reading this review…or any reviews for that matter. I think it is best to go into this movie without any idea where the story is going to take you. You will only be able to experience watching this film for [...]
Film Review: Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel’s DEADGIRL (2008)
Posted in Film Reviews, tagged constantine in tokyo, constantineintokyo, deadgirl, film, film review, Film Reviews, horror, noah segan, shiloh fernandez, zombies on September 19, 2010 | 15 Comments »
You’re wandering around an abandoned mental institution with your best friend when you find a woman chained to a bed and wrapped in a plastic sheet. Do you: (A) Run away (B) Call the police (C) Free her (D) Fuck her In Deadgirl (2008), the answer is always (D). When JT and Ricky find the [...]
Japanese Film Review #17: Tomomatsu Naoyuki’s STACY (2001)
Posted in Film Reviews, Japanese Film Reviews, tagged film, film review, Japan, japanese film, Japanese zombie movies, zombie movies, zombies on May 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Directed by Tomomatsu Naoyuki and based on a novel by Otsuki Kenji, the 2001 film Stacy seems like a pretty good idea – what’s not to love about undead zombie schoolgirls? The film opens with the following narration: The beginning of the 21st century. Young girls aged 15 to 17 began dying one after another, [...]

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