Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (DVD Details)
Kaiji Ito (Tatsuya Fujiwara - Death Note/Battle Royale) moves to Japan after graduating from high school. Unable to find a job and frustrated with society at large, Kaiji spends his days gambling, vandalising cars, and drinking. Two years later and his life is no better. A debt collector named Endo arrives to collect payment. She then offers two choices to Kaiji: spend 10 years paying off his loan...
20th Century Boys Trilogy: The Complete Saga (4 Discs) (DVD Details)
A positively epic exercise in filmmaking and storytelling, the blockbusting 20th Century Boys trilogy has proven to the most ambitious, expensive and successful undertakings in Japanese Cinema.
Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi's epic efforts to release three films in one year based on Naoki Urasawa acclaimed manga (selling 28 million copies) has brought to life a stunning doomsday thriller that spans...
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (DVD Details)
High school student Mizushima receives Valentines Day chocolates from the new student, Monami. Little did she know that the chocolates contained traces of Monami's vampire blood.
He gets infected from eating them and Monami confesses that she wants to live with him forever as vampires. Meanwhile, Mizushima decides that he wants to fully become a vampire with Monami's help. Keiko, Mizushima's...
Samurai Princess (DVD Details)
Kengo Kaji, who wrote Tokyo Gore Police, writes and directs this new genre-bending sci-fi/fantasy gore-fest from Japan. Yoshihiro Nishimura handles the special make-up effects, as he did for Tokyo Gore Police, Machine Girl and Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl.
Samurai Princess pits android assassin against mutant madmen in an alternate universe version of feudal Japan. In this version of...
Cyborg She (DVD Details)
A lonesome college student named Jiro (Keisuke Koide) is spending his 20th birthday alone when suddenly a beautiful cyborg girl (Haruka Ayase) turns up. The few hours that he spends with her are the most incredible moments of his life and Jiro is overwhelmed by his good-fortune in meeting her.
But his happiness does not last for long since she disappears after that. A year later on his 21st...
20th Century Boys (2 Disc) (DVD Details)
20th Century Boys seems to have been inspired in parts of the story by the works of Stephen King, containing allusions to It and The Stand. However, the story draws allusions mostly from rock and roll, with its title based on T. Rex's famous song, "20th Century Boy".
In 1969, Kenji, an elementary school kid and his friends built a secret base during their summer holidays. They fantasized that...
Death Note - L: change the WorLd (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
A spin-off to the "Death Note" films featuring the character L, the enigmatic detective from those titles. The film chronicles the final 23 days of L's life, as he solves one final case involving a bioterrorist group that aims to wipe out much of humanity with a highly infectious virus, taking the sole survivor of its test run in a Thai village, and a junior high schooler named Maki Nikaido under...
Death Note 2: The Last Name (DVD Details)
Light and L's psychological duel enters a new phase; whoever is careless for even a split second will lose! To complicate things further, Rem, another shinigami brings the second notebook and Misa Amane, a Japanese pop star and Kira worshipper, comes into possession of it.
Now becoming a Kira herself, she accepts an offer to have the Eyes of the Death. With the Eyes of the Death one can know...
Black Kiss (DVD Details)
A disturbed murderer is stalking the streets of Tokyo, leaving a trail of mutilated bodies and his signature symbol of a black lip print. Asuka (Reika Hashimoto) has just moved to the city when she witnesses the horror of the killer's handiwork - right across the street from her new apartment.
Starfish Hotel (DVD Details)
Strange things always happen in Jo Kuroda's mystery novels. There is always a sinister rabbit called Mr Trickster; and someone always ends up dead.
A man's wife disappears and he finds her working in a brothel deep in the heart of the city. There is a universe called the Darkland that can only be entered through a hidden tunnel. There is a young girl that the man had an affair with in the dead...
Yo-Yo Girl Cop (DVD Details)
Recruited by a clandestine police organisation, "K" (played by J-Pop Sensation Aya Matsuura), must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name, she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists. However, she finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.
Directed by Kenta Fukasaka of Battle Royale and Battle...
Anime Review Roundup
Beck The Movie
Last week it was Gantz, this time it's the turn of Beck, another manga turned anime that is getting the big screen live action treatment. I loved the series when I saw it, a tale of an unlikely band following their bumpy destiny to...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Grotesque banned by the BBFC
In a very rare instance, the British Board of Film Classification has refused to grant an 18 certificate to Japanese horror movie “Grotesque” due to the amount of unacceptable content featured throughout the film.
Set for distribution in the UK...
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Anime Review Roundup
Crunchyroll's Next New Series Is…
It was a news-lite week last week, which certainly saves me wearing the fingerprints off the end of my fingers. But you can't derail the Crunchyroll express, which continues regardless. This week's new series is...
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Anime Review Roundup
I may as well just link to the Anime News Network this week, as all my choice headlines come from there.
Children of the Sun, Now your time has just begun… again
Earlier this year, I had the privilege of reviewing The Mysterious Cities of Gold...
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Anime Review Roundup
Anime on the Big Screen… Up North!
You’re probably used to reading about London’s Barbican hosting another anime festival every few months, which is all well and good if you’re local. But quite frankly, if you made the decision to live away from...
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Anime Review Roundup
They have film festivals in Venice?
Okay, okay, I’m embarrassingly late with this snippet, but if there is one name synonymous with anime, which also generates massive buzz in the film world in general, that’s Hayao Miyazaki’s. After all, winning...
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Review for Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (Review) (DVD)
The colourful cast of Death Note (2006) reunite for this inspired manga/anime adaptation. It is a riveting sizzler of a movie made with...
Posted by Curtis Owen
Review for 20th Century Boys Trilogy: The Complete Saga (4 Discs) (Review) (DVD)
It seemed as if 4 Digital Asia were onto a winner last year. They had just released the 3 live action Death Note films in two-disc...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Review for Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl (Review) (DVD)
In 2008, director Yoshihiro Nishimura shot to fame with Tokyo Gore Police:-
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He also worked as a make-up and special effect...
Posted by Curtis Owen
Samurai Princess (Review) (DVD)
I must be a glutton for punishment. There I am, always whinging on about the quality of the check discs we receive, lamenting those DVD-Rs,...
Posted by Jitendar Canth
Cyborg She (Review) (DVD)
She is a cyborg from the future, living tissue over a casein alloy endoskeleton, a lethal fighting machine, with a single mission and no...
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A flux capacitor maybe! It's a really cool occurrence none the less.
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Comment on Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler
I'm puzzled by how a quote from Curtis' review ended up on the front cover of the DVD before the review was posted - the cover...
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