THE DAY OF DESTRUCTION

DAY OF DESTRUCTION was intended to mark the opening of the Tokyo Olympics, but the coronavirus turned the film into something else entirely

RING: KANZENBAN

The true inception of the phenomenally popular RING film cycle was this Japanese TV movie from 1995

SWEET HOME

W haunted house movie that woefully lacks the complexity and craftsmanship of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s later films

TOMIE

An oft-filmed landmark in the field of horror manga that offers an unflattering glimpse into some of the uglier corners of Japan’s national psyche

TURNING JAPANESE

A short collection of six Asian Cult Cinema magazine articles, spanning the years 1997 to 2007, by the late horror novelist Jack Ketchum