Asian Reviews

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “A monstrous evil brain from outer space leads his minions on a crusade to conquer the universe, and unleashes hideous monsters on Earth that spread deadly diseases. Superhero Starman must rescue Earth from the menace of the evil brain while battling armies of monsters the brain sends against him.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Before I start this week’s …

SYNOPSIS: Hyeon-jeong’s sister is missing and she fears for the worst. Via her sister’s cellphone, Hyeon-jeong learns that her sister stayed in a countryside vaillage. She goes to the village to find her sister and stops at the local police station for help. Because of the little evidence she has, the police refuse to offer help. Hyeong-jeong then finds a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A pair of beautiful young girls (Matsush*ta Nao, Suzuki Ami) finds themselves in the fight of their lives when a trip to a hot springs resort lands them in the middle of a remote village, where bloodthirsty maniacs carry out a terrifying tradition. Based on the spine-tingling novel by Nobuyuki Joko, this fast and funny horror-thriller …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A psychopathic rapist, who attacks women that wear red, runs a home for retarded children and rapes a girl there who he sees wearing a red dress, leading to a revenge plot by the girl’s social worker REVIEW: Written by: Wong- Ho- Wah Directed by: Billy Tang Hin-Sing Starring: Lily Chung Suk-Wai, Ben NG Ngai- Cheung, …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The Indian descendent Sean comes to a forest with his friends Josh and Flipp trying to find the track to a mysterious cursed tree and a secret burial ground. His grandfather wrote a journal about the love of the Indian Satinka and the son of the medicine man of their tribe one hundred and twenty years …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When her classmate Ritsuko disappears, her friend Ryoko is desperate to find her. When she discovers that Ritsuko was playing a strange game online of hide and seek, she begins to wonder if it could be related to her disappearance somehow. Ryoko then discovers that the game is more sinister than it appeared at first. It …

SYNOPSIS: A group of teenagers take a sick to a hospital only to find out it is a horrific labyrinth REVIEW: Director – Takashi Shimizu Starring – Yuya Yagira, Ai Maeda, Misako Renbutsu I am a big fan of The Grudge, both the Japanese original version and the American remake, so when I saw that this was directed by Takashi …

SYNOPSIS: A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides. REVIEW: Ju-On the Grudge, directed by Takashi Shimizu, is a thrilling story of a haunted house and the people who have the misfortune of walking through its door. Rika (Megumi Okina) is a volunteer social worker charged with caring for Sachie …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A handful of mysterious Japanese women take part in a deranged web show that makes them strip off their clothes when they lose a round of Mahjong. When there is nothing left to hide, secrets are revealed and they must take their punishment. REVIEW: You have to love a film that is completely transparent like “Strip …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: She starts out by eating a dish of noodles and worms before moving on to playing the piano. Once she starts playing, she gets a nice enema and squirts it all over the floor. She is then forced to eat it!!! But it gets worse…Lots of other enema stuff before the grand finale in which she …

SYNOPSIS: From Earth’s pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage. REVIEW: “Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster” was a 1971 release that made its way thru the theatre circuit. The film is titled under its original Asian title as “Godzilla vs Hedorah”.Hedorah is the …

SYNOPSIS: Noboru Iguchi (RoboGeisha) is back with another horror film packed to the brim with outrageously ghoulish gore and oceans of fake blood. Tomie: Unlimted, from the original manga by Junji Ito, follows the young high school student Tsukiko (Moe Arai). A member of her school’s photography club, the shy Tsukiko has always been in her beautiful older sister Tomie’s …

SYNOPSIS: Over the past 42 years, six people have gone missing, eight people have died “accidently” and eleven cases of murder have occurred in a deserted house. 3 members of an abandoned house exploring club and 3 staff members of a broadcasting company go into the deserted house. All of them disappear. REVIEW: By now, you would think with all …

SYNOPSIS: An alien-spawned, mysterious mist blankets the northern half of Japan, transforming those who inhale it into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies hell-bent on devouring the surviving human population. Plunged into chaos, Japan is torn in two—the southern half of the country, where the populace remains untouched by the deadly gas, lives behind a heavily-fortified wall, while the northern half is a …

SYNOPSIS: A group of friends find themselves stranded in an old hotel. As they uncover the history beneath the walls they’re slowly drawn into its sinister past making it harder to get out alive! REVIEW: