Released By: Film Movement
Released On: October 11, 2016
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Yí»rei Yanagi, Yuriko Ishida, Taka Guadalcanal
Year: 1990
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The Film: You can say what you like about Takeshi Kitano (probably best when he's not around to hear you), but the man most definitely does not mess around. A year after successfully taking the reins from Kinji Fukasaku on 1989's Violent Cop, Beat Takeshi fou...

Released By: Arrow Video
Released On: January 26, 2016.
Director: Seijun Suzuki, Toshio Masuda, Buichi Saito
Cast: Hideaki Nitani, Yujiro Ishihara, Akira Kobayashi
Year: Various
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The Movies: Back in the 1950's, Nikkatsu, one of Japan's oldest film studios, bounced back from a war-induced production drought by slapping up eight brand-new soundstages (complete with the unheard-of luxury of air conditioning) and putting...

Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: June 10, 2014
Director: Takanori Tsujimoto
Cast: Mitsuki Koja, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Masanori Mimoto
Year: 2014
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The Movie Bushido Man is the latest from Japanese director Takanori Tsujimoto (Monster Killer, Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle). The film was originally released in North America by Shout! Factory as a web series, and the first five chapters of the film were split ...

Released By: Lionsgate
Released On: 10/09/2012
Director: Dennis Law
Cast: Jing Wu, Simon Yam, Sammo Hung, Lam Suet
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The Film:

If you are expecting anything creative from a movie called Triad Wars, you're probably expecting a little too much. I tried to be objective going into it, and paid the high price of extreme boredom. Consisting of a few mediocre action scenes placed here and there with a whole lot of amateur...

So this summer I've made it my project to watch the entire original Zatoichi film series (I suppose its possible I might get around to some of the remakes/reboots...almost...

Released By: Paramount
Released On: 09/14/2010
Director: Jerry London
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, John Rhys-Davies


The Film: When my Dad gets excited about a film that I get to review, I usually figure that I'm in some pretty serious trouble. Our disagreements on movies have been known to reach proportions of theatrical anger, with our respective opinions of what makes a film “good” sitting at extreme opp...

Released By: Cinema Epoch
Released On: 02/15/2011
Director: Fukuda Youhei
Cast: Naomi Inoue, Satoshi Sakurai, Kawatsura Akihiro

The Film:

Just when you thought that it was safe to go back into the cyber world of realtime broadcast murder, those fuzzy, homicidal teddy bears are back online in Death Tube 2. If you haven't seen the first Death Tube movie, you're missing out on a good time. What appears to have started off as a ripoff...

Released By: Cinema Epoch
Released On: 10/26/2010
Directed By: Fukuda Youhei
Cast: Shí´ichi Matsuda, Wataru Kaoru, Ishino Atsushi, Tsukamoto Sanae

The Film:

Despite the proverb, it is difficult to not judge a book by its cover. Or a DVD case, for that matter. So, when I found myself staring down at the cover of Death Tube, with the “YouTube” look-a-like logo and the comparison to Saw and Hostel, I was sceptical to say...

Released By : Image Entertainment
Released On : 02/19/2002
Cast : The Brian Setzer Orchestra

The Movie: Few musicians possess the adversity and talent to transcend musical genres and time. In the early 1980's, rocker Brian Setzer and two other skinny cats from Long Island brought their version of the rockin' sounds of the 50's and 60's to a generation of music fans who thought that being into music meant wearing a skinny leather tie...