Japanese cinema – The Reprobate

Mayhem 2022: Kuroneko

The enhanced Mayhem screening of the Japanese classic is an interesting reinterpretation of the film.

The director of Onibaba and Kuroneko explores a bleak tale of isolation and quiet despair.

It’s lycanthrope vs lizard in this unreleased, unfinished clash of the monster movie titans.

Continuing our crime movie month with a look at Seijun Suzuki’s radical reinterpretation of the Japanese gangster movie.

Continuing our crime movie season with a look back at what is perhaps the most outrageously delirious Japanese underworld film ever made.

Remembering the great Japanese action star whose perpetually cool career spanned six decades.

Akira Kurosawa’s action movie masterpiece remains one of the most thrilling movie experiences ever made.

Turtle Power! The classic and entirely bizarre Gamera monster movie series examined.

As the global lockdown continues, so does our selection of movies to watch in order to stave off – or possibly speed up – madness.

Genre collision and wild excess in a deranged Japanese cop-horror-action movie starring the legendary Sonny Chiba.