Director: Shusuke Kaneko2001Shusuke Kaneko is the man, together with screen writer and Ghost In The Shell creator Kazunori Ito, who made kaiju cool again with his '90s Gamera trilogy. It's not surprising then that Toho should hire him to breathe...

Getting Any? Japanese Title: Minna, yatteruka! Director: Takeshi Kitano 1994 Glory to the Filmmaker! Japanese Title: Kantoku - Banzai! Director: Takeshi Kitano 2007 Takeshi Kitano is best known outside of Japan for his two violent...

Way back in 2006 I wrote an article called Buying Japanese DVDs, a guide to, well, buying Japanese DVDs. A year later I updated it to cover bootlegs and such. But now it's almost 2010 and watching movies on physical media is so outdated. You do pretty...

Director: Shusuke Kaneko 1999 How do you say no? Gamera 3: The Revenge of Iris is the concluding film in the ‘90s trilogy that resurrected everybody’s favorite giant turtle and finally made him as tough as Godzilla. This isn’t your ojisan’s...

The Taste of Tea Director: Katsuhito Ishii 2004 Funky Forest: The First Contact Directors: Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, Shunichiro Miki 2005 Sorasoi Directors: Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, Shunichiro Miki 2009 Katsuhito Ishii...