people: Tadanobu Asano
2020
'Vital': The Weight Of The Dead, And Of The Living November 10, 2020
Shinya Tsukamoto's dark drama about a medical student obsessed with the cadaver of a lost love becomes a moving meditation on how life and death inform each other
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'Electric Dragon 80.000V': Raw Power September 11, 2020
Gakuryū Ishii's hourlong, warp-speed clash of pseudo-superheroes is still deafeningly good fun after twenty years
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'Gojoe': The Demons On The Bridge September 04, 2020
Twenty years later, Gakuryū Ishii's revisionist samurai legend still dazzles and jolts like few other movies of its kind
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2018
'Maborosi': The Unanswerable Question July 27, 2018
Hirokazu Kore-eda's debut feature, twenty years on, remains an ominous and poignant masterwork
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'Ichi The Killer': The (Sado)Masochism Tango March 23, 2018
Nearly twenty years later, this remains Takashi Miike's most notorious film, but notoriety is about all it has left going for it
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2017
The 'Silence' Of Shusaku Endō, Masahiro Shinoda, And Martin Scorsese November 07, 2017
On two film adaptations, entirely dissimilar but equally fascinating, of a Japanese novel about the persecution of Christians in Tokugawa-era Japan
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2016
'Neji-shiki'/'Screwed': A Peek Into The Pit December 27, 2016
How to film Yoshiharu Tsuge's landmark work of surrealist comics? Leave it to master of weirdness Teruo Ishii, albeit with mixed results
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