The Wind Rises delivers new trailer and controversy
With Studio Ghibli’s The Wind Rises sitting at number one for four weeks running in Japan, and what’s sure to be a successful festival ...
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Trailers
Keanu Reeves turns Japanese in 47 Ronin trailer
So you gather a cast of awesome Japanese actors and you put them in a movie based on Japan’s greatest story. You even ...
Reviews
Fantasia Review: Bushido Man
There’s something about low-budget action movies that’s full of real fighting spirit. With so many budget constraints, the films are usually infused with ...
Reviews
Fantasia Review: The Tiger Mask
Even though I’m a grown man, there are a lot of things from my boyhood I still enjoy. Tokusatsu genre shows and movies, ...
Reviews
Fantasia Review: After School Midnighters
One of my favorite lines about kids movies comes from Terry Gilliam. When describing Time Bandits, Gilliam said he wanted to make a ...
Japan Cuts Review: The Ravine of Goodbye
Sex in films is an odd thing. Personally, it bothers me. I tend to look away from the screen while sex scenes are ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: Fly With the Gold
I don’t watch a whole lot of heist movies. It’s not that I don’t like them (I do), just that they don’t usually ...
Audience votes Hentai Kamen as best film of NYAFF 2013
At the beginning of every screening at the New York Asian Film Festival, the good folks at Subway Cinema handed out little slips ...
Trailers
Promo/trailer for Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises
We shared a brief teaser of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) a few weeks ago, but now we have a gorgeous ...
Features
NYAFF Non-Review: Sion Sono’s Bad Film is a masterpiece
Sion Sono’s Bad Film is truly a movie that should not exist. Shot in the mid 90s on Hi8 video, the film ran ...
Japan Cuts Review: I’M FLASH!
At last year’s New York Asian Film Festival and Japan Cuts, I saw two films by Japanese director Toshiaki Toyoda: Monsters Club and ...
Reviews
Japan Cuts Review: The Floating Castle
There’s inherent drama in stories about impossible odds, and some of the better one involve samurais in Feudal Japan. In Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, ...