ORGAN
Mutiliation, mutation and spilled bodily fluids aplenty: a 1990s Asian cult classic!
Tatsuya Nakadai: 1932-2025
Who is the greatest actor you’ve (probably) never heard of? I’d nominate the recently deceased Tatsuya Nakadai, one of the major players in classic Japanese cinema
GODZILLA MINUS ONE
It was inevitable that Japan’s Toho Studios, after decades of aggressively rebranding Godzilla for the international market, would finally get it right.
PINK LADY’S MOTION PICTURE
Pink Lady was the 1970s Japanese forerunner to the Spice Girls, and this was their unimpressive film debut
SQUAREWORLD
One of the most unnerving, and least compromising, horror films to emerge from the nineties
HAUNTED SAMURAI
This 1970 Nikkatsu release is allegedly “the most gory ninja film of its era”
THE BURNING BUDDHA MAN
Cut-out animation, H.R. Giger-esque grotesquerie and Buddhism—an irresistible combination, I say
VIOLENCE VOYAGER
The second feature by Japan’s Ujicha, following the mind-roasting BURNING BUDDHA MAN
LADY EXTERMINATOR
Shaw Brothers action movie madness!
1984: The Year in Bedlam
Continuing with my Year in Bedlam year-end overviews, we arrive at 1984