Japanese

One of the magnitudes of reasons why I love horror is that in no other genre would make a film like Samurai Zombie. Mixing the reanimated undead with the ancient warrior class of feudal Japan is a genius idea and adding in gore, gangsters and a creepy cursed village makes it all the more marvelous. [...]

Exploding onto the screen like an episode of Power Rangers directed by David Cronenberg, Robo-geisha is a crazy gore-fest, written and directed by Noboru Iguchi – the man behind Machine Girl and following very much in the same vein of violence, vengeance and wild wacky weirdness. [...]

I had heard a lot about Audition. Friends telling me that it was very disturbing, people telling me that it’s a cautionary tale for men. But until we received this Asian Horror box set to review, I never had the inclination to watch it. But, the morning after finally making the effort to view it, [...]

A live-action film of the original anime of the same name, Blood: The Last Vampire is a high kicking, head chopping, demon-fest with plenty of gore and entertainment to keep any horror fan happy. Set in 1970’s Tokyo, the film follows Saya (Gianna Jun) a 400-year-old samurai sword-wielding daughter of a demon hunter, dressed as [...]

In the middle of a bitter custody battle Yoshimi (Hitomi Kuroki) moves with her young daughter Ikuko (Rio Kanno) to a rundown apartment building. The huge water stain that appears on the ceiling is the beginning of a series of strange and haunting events – including weird noises and fleeting appearances by a small girl [...]