By Anton Bitel
House of Bamboo, one of the first American features to be shot in Japan, is as hard-boiled as they come.
Ryûhei Kitamura’s frenetic, crazily-ambitious cult favourite is low-brow filmmaking at its mind-boggling best.
By Anton Bitel
Godzilla creator Ishiro Honda’s globe-trotting adventure is a strangely sweet family adventure.
A copyright dispute around 1984’s ‘Sherlock Hound’ freed the Japanese animator to establish Studio Ghibli.
With his yakuza thriller Boiling Point, “Beat” Takeshi staked his claim as a serious filmmaker.
By Anton Bitel
Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard of Honor and Takashi Miike’s 2002 update redefined the postwar Japanese gangster flick.
The ’90s straight-to-video boom reinvigorated the industry and made stars of directors like Takashi Miike.
By Leigh Singer
Our latest Remake/Remodel video essay analyses the impact of Akira Kurosawa’s samurai epic on Sergio Leone’s Spaghetti western.
The anime master behind Paprika and Perfect Blue left behind several incomplete projects which could still be realised.
The first and only film from Miyazaki protégé Yoshifumi Kondo stands among the studio’s best works.
Hausu director Nobuhiko Obayashi’s penultimate film, Hanagatami, is as surreal as it is moving.
In 1972’s Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, Meiko Kaji emerged as a bona fide, badass star.
By Matt Turner
In Me and the Cult Leader, filmmaker and survivor Atsushi Sakahara confronts both his own trauma and that of a nation.
Isao Takahata’s unrealised passion project was intended as a follow-up to Grave of the Fireflies.
Aya and the Witch tells the story of the smartest girl in the world and her hex-casting companion.
Screen Anime will allow fans to discover more of Japan’s animation output, offering a wide range of films new and old.
By Anton Bitel
Masaki Kobayashi’s Oscar-winning 1964 anthology film Kwaidan is now available on Blu-ray for the first time.
Little White Lies was established in 2005 as a bi-monthly print magazine committed to championing great movies and the talented people who make them. Combining cutting-edge design, illustration and journalism, we’ve been described as being “at the vanguard of the independent publishing movement.” Our reviews feature a unique tripartite ranking system that captures the different aspects of the movie-going experience. We believe in Truth & Movies.
