By Anton Bitel
“Sonny” Chiba-starring Japanese genre hybrid Wolf Guy is now available on home video.
By Anton Bitel
A young family comes apart at the seams in this gripping drama from Japanese writer/director Kôji Fukada.
By Anton Bitel
Juzo Itami’s ‘ramen western’ Tampopo – finally out on Blu-ray – is a culinary romp like no other.
The Japanese writer/director returns with a typically bittersweet family drama.
By Anton Bitel
Shinichi Fukazawa’s Super-8 gem Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell is a throwback to ’80s horror.
Rare shorts from 1917 to 1941 are now streaming in celebration of 100 years of anime.
By Greg Evans
In Mamoru Oshii’s classic anime, characters seek individuality within an increasingly artificial society.
By Jack Godwin
Sunao Katabuchi’s wartime drama follows a young girl in Hiroshima circa 1945.
By Jack Godwin
The Masque of the Black Death is being developed from a finished script by the late Japanese master.
By Anton Bitel
Destruction Babies is raucous rebel filmmaking at its brutal best.
By Alex Denney
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s eerily prescient 2001 film journeys to the heart of technological darkness.
By Anton Bitel
Japanese director Eiji Uchida’s Lowlife Love is now available to own on DVD and Blu-ray.
See your favourite anime characters as they might appear in real-world settings.
By Mike Tsenti
Mamoru Oshii’s classic anime is being re-released in the UK early next year.
Sion Sono’s Anti-Porno explores the untapped sexual imagination of women.
The director’s bold and bleak cinematic vision chronicles life in World War Two-era Japan.