Cure Blu Ray review
Kiyoshi Kurosawa film not only brought him to international attention but unsettled many who saw it. It is a relentlessly unnerving piece about the power of the dark recesses of the mind. A series of awful unex... Read More...
Feature on Japan’s NHK channel including an exclusive documentary on Hayao Miyazaki and more
Those looking for a different perspective on our world could do a lot worse than cast a glance over at the impressive output of Japanese broadcaster NHK: a public service broadcaster that functions much like an... Read More...
5.0
Your Name Review – London Film Festival 2016
Shinkai builds on the steady foundations laid by his own previous outings to bring us the dazzling, pretty and truly profound Your Name.
Love Hotel Review
The doors to Japan’s deeply closeted sexual society are teased open in Phil Cox & Hikaru Toda’s documentary Love Hotel as a crudely compiled intro condensing japan’s entire sexual history into a couple of j... Read More...
Kaze Tachinu: The Wind Rises Review
“Be careful, this may be a dream but you can still lose your head!"
Hayao Miyazaki is a magician of animation. He creates lyrical and poetic cinema that brings together the fantastical, a love of nature an... Read More...
Girl Model Review
Supermodels, living the stuff that our mortal dreams are made of, those beautiful demi-gods who earn millions of dollars and literally don't have to put their own socks on.
In their documentary Girl Model, Dav... Read More...