Amazing Stop-Motion Samurai Film!
Hidari is stop-motion chanbara goodness! Watch here. (Thanks, Dr. O!)
Livestreams of Kung Fu, Karate, Kaiju, Jackie Chan, Kamen Rider, and Sonny Chiba!
Shout Factory is hosting a crazy number of livestreams on YouTube right now via TokuSHOUTsu! Pick your poison here.
The Projection Booth: Demons (1970)
Our friends at the Projection Booth discuss the 1970 Toshio Matsumoto film, Demons! “We conclude a month of discussing Japanese films with a look at Toshio Matsumoto’s 1971 film Demons AKA Shura AKA Pandemonium. The story of the film is part of the fabric of the larger 47 […]
10 Things I liked in 2021
It’s annual list time where I share things I liked in the last year. I usually try to write about things I haven’t written about before, but the world is not what it was and perhaps next year I will be back to that or perhaps on to […]
“The Man who Lives for the Art of Dying”
Japan Times profiled Seizo Fukumoto, an actor who specialized in ugly deaths in period samurai movies. “As a young actor, one of Fukumoto’s own role models was not a martial artist at all but Charlie Chaplin….’I thought the way he fell was great. He went down with a […]
“Pacifist Samurai Film”
The Japan Times interviews Shinya Tsukamoto about his new film, Killing. “’As I took in the current state of the world, I had an urge to let out (the film) like a scream. The act of killing in the Edo Period (1603-1868) was quite normal. I found many […]
The Cultural Gutter 