A brief chat with Baby Assassins: Nice Days director Yugo Sakamoto
For roughly the past year, I have co-hosted a YouTube channel called “TimesSqKungFu” with my friend Frankie Balboa. A creation of his to ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Baby Assassins: Nice Days
For over 20 years now, action director Kensuke Sonomura has been rising up the ranks of both video game and film choreography to ...
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NYAFF 2024 Review: Bushido
Much like how Westerns have gradually faded away from modern Hollywood cinema, samurai films have mostly fallen out of favor with modern Japanese ...
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RGG Studios surprise announces Like a Dragon: Yakuza series for Amazon Prime
Out of the blue, RGG Studios and Amazon have announced a brand-new series based on the popular Sega series Like a Dragon will ...
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One Percenter is an in-depth musing on the nature of action stars
Disclaimer: On the very day I put the finishing touches on this draft, a rather informative thread from Japanese film critic Tom Mes ...
Review: Godzilla Minus One
Has it really been almost 70 years since Godzilla was created? When you think of a monster movie, Godzilla is usually the first ...
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NYAFF 2023 Review: Egoist
All across the world, there has been a growing concern over the regression of several LGBTQ+ rights. What took centuries to ratify has ...
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Miyazaki Marathon: Howl’s Moving Castle
With the upcoming release of Miyazaki’s 12th (and possibly final) film, How Do You Live?, we at Flixist will be taking a look at Miyazaki’s ...
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Miyazaki Marathon – Princess Mononoke
With the upcoming release of Miyazaki’s 12th (and possibly final) film, How Do You Live?, we at Flixist will be taking a look at Miyazaki’s ...
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Miyazaki Marathon: My Neighbor Totoro
With the upcoming release of Miyazaki’s 12th (and possibly final) film, How Do You Live?, we at Flixist will be taking a look at Miyazaki’s ...
Miyazaki Marathon – Castle in the Sky
With the upcoming release of Miyazaki’s 12th (and possibly final) film, How Do You Live?, we at Flixist will be taking a look at Miyazaki’s ...
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Review: Inu-Oh
Over the past decade, Masaaki Yuasa has slowly but surely ingrained himself as one of the best directors currently working in the anime ...