Tag: Eiji Tsuburaya

May 15, 2021 · 0 comments

By Jeremy Clarke. With a title that seems to proclaim, “look at me, I’ve arrived”, Daiei’s The Invisible Man Appears (1949) is a Japanese manifesto, a statement that they can match American movies. Eiji Tsuburaya‘s effects are as good as anything in Universal’s The Invisible Man (1933) and were almost certainly produced at a fraction […]

August 14, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. When did Japanese cinema first get so sexy? It is a question that Eureka Entertainment’s release of the little-seen The Saga of Anatahan (1953) goes some way in answering. The film is based on a true incident in which a group of Japanese sailors were marooned on a remote jungle island situated […]