Sixties and Seventies Asian Pop Record Covers
A gallery of Singaporean, Malaysian, Indonesian, Hong Kong and Japanese pop album covers.
RIP, Noribumi Suzuki
Filmmaker Noribumi Suzuki has died. Suzuki was probably best known for School of the Holy Beast (1974), Sex and Fury (1973) and his Torakku Yarõ / Truck Yaro / Trucker Guys films starring Bunta Sugawara. Here Suzuki talks about working with actresses Reiko Ike and Miki Sugimoto, who […]
Godzilla Noir
The Gutter’s own Carol shares a bit of her hardboiled Godzilla detective fiction at Monstrous Industry. Here’s a segment from “Three Kings” and two from “A Mark In Blue.”: ‘“Hell,’ I muttered, glancing down. My side was a mess of rearranged gears and blue coolant weeped from a […]
The Akira Project
An amazing fan-made trailer for a live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira.
Untouchable Fist: Hong Kong Cinema, Censorship and Me
Every April, we like to switch things up at the Gutter, with the editors writing about something outside their domains. This week, Comics Editor Carol writes about subtitles, censorship and Hong Kong cinema. ~~~ I don’t remember the first kung fu movie I ever watched. I am terrible […]
“A Gaggle of Golgo 13”
Over at Teleport City, Keith takes a look at live-action and animated adaptations of Takao Saito’s manga, Golgo 13.
The Cultural Gutter 