Asian Reviews

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Once upon a time in Japan, there was a band of great Iga Ninja warriors, led by Yamata. One day, they witness a flash in the sky, and a roaring giant ball of fire crashing into the distant forest. The warriors rush into the deep woods in an attempt to identify the mysterious fireball. There, betraying …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Ami is a typical college girl. She’s bright, friendly, popular and athletic, with nothing to set her apart from other girls her age other than the fact that she is an orphan, left to care for her younger brother after her father committed suicide after being falsely accused of murder. But while there is tragedy in …

SYNOPSIS: A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past. REVIEW:  Within the smattering of Asian horror releases that arrived like a tidal wave of fear, “Shutter” (2004) was one of ones that carried a well known legacy of being frightful. Its later …

SYNOPSIS: A high school student called Ranko is attacked by a vagabond on school grounds late one afternoon. Her beloved teacher Sayuri rescues her, only to take her place as the victim. Ranko tries to get help from a piano tuner who is just leaving the school. They eventually find Sayuri and her attacker in a classroom, but the man …

SYNOPSIS: Temporarily homeless after breaking up with her boyfriend, Grace needs a place to stay. A friend introduces Grace to her pimp, and soon after getting high she steals a few thousand dollars from his wallet while he is asleep. He sets his goons on her, and after getting tired of waiting for her to pay up, they abduct her. …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman (Shinya Tsukamoto) investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo. REVIEW: Director: Takashi Shimizu Producer: Tatsuhiko Hirata Music: Toshiyuki Takine Cinematographer: Tsukasa Tanabe Editor: Masahiro Ugajin Actors: Shinya Tsukamoto * Tomomi Miyash*ta * Kazuhrio Nakahara * Miho Ninagawa * Shun Sugata After watching this I was reminded …

SYNOPSIS: Princess Dragon Mom and her mutant army have arisen, and only Inframan can stop them! REVIEW: Infra-Man debuted in 1975, though my recollection of this film stems sometime in the 80’s when it received a brief afternoon theatre run. I was all too exited to see this mix of martial arts and characters come to my local theatre, but …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Mrs Park (Oh Mi-Hee) is a former elementary school teacher, who is in poor health and confined to a wheel chair, cared for by one of her ex-students, Nam Mi-Ja (Seo Young-Hee). Mi-Ja invites some of her old classmates to a (bloody) reunion in order to try and cheer Mrs Park up. However one by one …

SYNOPSIS: Something awaits 8,000 feet under the sea off the southern tip of Jeju Island. The Eclipse is the offshore drilling rig stationed at Sector 7, a mining area in the vast open sea located off the southern tip of Jeju Island. The oil drilling excavations end in failure and headquarters gives the order to withdraw. Captain Jeong-man is sent …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Shake Rattle & Roll 2K5 is a creepy, delightful blend of fun and fright for the whole family! “Poso is about a fake occultist (Ai Ai delas Alas) who retires when her last job goes terribly wrong. But when a wealthy client (Miss Gloria Romero) promises Ai Ai a huge fee to contact Glorias dead grandson …

SYNOPSIS: The sexy Ryôko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the elite “Madame Machiko Society Club” to experiment with discrete sex games and the thrill of making love to anonymous men. The sexual perversion and …

SYNOPSIS: “In 1895, in a small village in Japan, the wife of the litter carrier Gisaburo (Takahiro Tamura), Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki), has an affair with a man twenty-six years younger, Toyiji (Tatsuya Fuji). Toyiji becomes jealous of Gisaburo and plots with Seki to kill him. They strangle Gisaburo and dump his body inside a well in the woods, and Seki …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An eccentric man aged about 40 lives alone in a decrepit house in Tokyo. He periodically transforms into a giant, about 30 meters tall, and defends Japan by battling similarly sized monsters that turn up and destroy buildings. The giant and the monsters are computer-generated. REVIEW: Hilariously Absurd! Check out the trailer for “Big Man Japan” …

SYNOPSIS: In a world where giant humanoid Titans prey on humans, Eren joins the scouting legion to get revenge on the monsters who killed everyone in his town. REVIEW: Based on the Manga film of same name, “Attack on Titan” is a highly original cinematic work directed by Shinji Higuchi released in Japan on September 2015. Originally titled “Shingeki no …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Since the nine-tailed fox, Harah, is a hybrid of human and fox, it desperately desires to become human totally. One day Harah runs into a handsome taxi driver Hyuk by chance and falls in love with him straight away. She hopes that by being with him day in and day out, Hyuk can be used as …