meta: Detective

'Beat' Takeshi Kitano's first outing as director remains among his best movies -- and also among his most nihilistic and unforgiving

A clever and inventive retelling of three classic Japanese samurai-era tales, channeled through detective-noir sensibilities

'Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter' for the J-lit set; a show that has one great creative invention and then spends its entire runtime doing nothing of consequence with it