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Matsumoto Hitoshi has not made an art film, but it sure looks like one.
Shooting Fully Automatic
When James Warren and Archie Goodwin started Blazing Combat in 1965, they made a war comic that might, in Warren’s Words, love guns but hate bullets (195), depicting war as sometimes necessary but always hateful and horrific. Blazing Combat was fully automatic for four issues Blazing Combat […]
Vampire, Or Maybe, Werewolf
When’s a vampire really more of a werewolf? When it’s Toppei from Osamu Tezuka’s Vampire. Todd from 4DK writes about the mostly live-action television adaptation, starring Tezuka as himself, beret and all, and they remind him of both Kurosawa’s High and Low and Fukasaku’s Black Lizard.
Streaming Kung Fu
Stream the Fu at Crunchy Roll. (Also, stream anime and “Asian entertainment”).
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl
Average Babycart Assassin/Lone Wolf and Cub movie not have enough arterial spray for you? Not enough mutilation in Ichi the Killer? Neither of them have enough Japanese schoolgirls? Try Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, from the makers of Tokyo Gore Police and RoboGeisha.
RoboGeisha: The Geisha War Begins
“Geisha is Robot.” Geisha fight samurai, giant temples and lady tengu. Geisha also transform.
The Cultural Gutter 