Dead or Alive (DEAD OR ALIVE: 犯罪者, Deddo oa araibu: Hanzaisha, Lit. “Dead or Alive: Criminals”), abbreviated as DOA (Dii ō ei), is a 1999 Japanese yakuza action film directed by Takashi Miike. It stars Riki Takeuchi as the gang boss and former yakuza Ryūichi […]
The Water Magician (滝の白糸, Taki no shiraito, lit. “White threads of the waterfall”) is a 1933 Japanese silent drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.[1][2] It is based on the story of the same name by Kyōka Izumi.[5]
Fushitsusha was formed in 1978 by Keiji Haino, and played live shows for a decade before putting this behemoth of a double live album out in 1989. Some research puts the date of these recordings from 1978, and that they’re from two separate shows, but […]
Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. Taking place in 1586[a] in the Sengoku period of Japanese history, it follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who seek to hire rōnin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal […]
Cure (キュア, Kyua) is a 1997 Japanese mystery–horror film written and directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki and Anna Nakagawa. The story follows a detective investigating a string of gruesome murders where an X is carved into the neck of each victim, and the murderer is found near the […]