Neon has shared the first trailer for Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, the third instalment in the action thriller series following 1992’s Bad Lieutenant, and 2009’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.Directed by cult Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, the film sees a disgraced Tokyo detective teaming up with an FBI agent to infiltrate the criminal underworld […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Audition (1999)
Audition, 1999.Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Ryô Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Jun Kunimura, and Tetsu Sawaki.SYNOPSIS:A widower has his film producer friend organize a fake audition as a means of helping him find a new girlfriend, but the woman he selects is not who she appears to be.It has been 10 years since Arrow Video released […]
Rashida Jones stars in trailer for Apple TV+ mystery thriller series Sunny
Apple TV+ has released a trailer for the mystery thriller series Sunny starring Rashida Jones.The series sees Jones as Suzie, a grieving American woman living in Japan who is given Sunny, a domestic robot, in consolation of the loss of her husband and son in a mysterious plane crash. Despite initially resenting the robot, Suzie […]
Movie Review – The Boy and the Heron (2023)
The Boy and the Heron, 2023.Written and Directed by Hayao Miyazaki. Featuring the voice talents of Soma Santoki, Aimyon, Ko Shibasaki, Masaki Suda, Takuya Kimura, Yoshino Kimura, Keiko Takeshita, Jun Fubuki, Sawako Agawa, Karen Takizawa, Shinobu Otake, Jun Kunimura, Kaoru Kobayashi, and Shōhei Hino.SYNOPSIS:Through encounters with his friends and uncle, follows a teenage boy’s psychological […]
Movie Review – Shin Godzilla (2016)
Shin Godzilla, 2016Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi Starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Ren Ohsugi, Akira Emoto, Kengo Kôra, Mikako Ichikawa, Jun Kunimura, Pierre Taki, Kyûsaku Shimada, Ken MitsuishiSYNOPSIS: Japan is plunged into chaos upon the appearance of a giant monster.Having been dormant in his native Japan since 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, the King […]
Movie Review – Minamata (2020)
Minamata, 2020.Directed by Andrew Levitas. Starring Johnny Depp, Minami, Hiroyuki Sanada, Bill Nighy, Ryo Kase, Tadanobu Asano, Jun Kunimura, Akiko Iwase, and Katherine Jenkins.SYNOPSIS:Veteran photojournalist W. Eugene Smith embarks on a life altering journey to Japan, to document the devastating effects of mercury poisoning in the Minamata coastal community…Johnny Depp is truly one of Hollywood’s […]
Venture into the Suicide Forest Village with trailer for The Grudge director Takashi Shimizu’s new horror
With a little over a week to go until its release, a poster and trailer have arrived online for Ju-On: The Grudge director Takashi Shimizu’s latest supernatural thriller Suicide Forest Village.Inspired by the Aokigahara Forest near Mt. Fuji, the film centres on a group of friends who unwittingly unleash a curse that can only be […]
Movie Review – Kate (2021)
Kate, 2021.Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Tadanobu Asano, Michiel Huisman, Jun Kunimura, Miyavi, Amelia Crouch, Ava Caryofyllis, Mari Yamamoto, and Kayuza Tanabe.SYNOPSIS:A female assassin has 24 hours to get vengeance on her murderer before she dies.Already at a disadvantage for having a cookie-cutter script of Japanese crime and […]
New trailer for Mary Elizabeth Winstead action thriller Kate
Netflix has released a new poster and trailer for the upcoming action thriller Kate, ahead of its arrival on the streaming service next month. Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, the film stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as an assassin who has less than 24 hours to exact her revenge after she is poisoned; take a look here…Meticulous […]
UK poster and trailer for Minamata starring Johnny Depp
Vertigo Releasing has shared a UK poster and trailer for the Andrew Levitas-directed drama Minamata. Based on Aileen Mioko Smith and Eugene Smith’s book of the same name, the film stars Johnny Depp as celebrated war photographer W. Eugene Smith, who documented the devastating effects of mercury poisoning in the titular Japanese coastal city; take […]
