Author: Jonathan Clements

February 26, 2017 · 1 comment

By Meghan Ellis. If you enjoy your breakfast with a side of restless dread, you should pick up a copy of the remastered Perfect Blue vinyl soundtrack. I say “breakfast” as that’s how my first listen went; a dark January morning over a bowl of New Year’s Resolution, with the film’s songs of madness accompanying […]

February 23, 2017 · 0 comments

By Roxy Simons. Bank teller Rika (Rie Miyazawa) leads a conventional life. She goes to work, meets clients about their accounts and possible future investments, and then goes home where she prepares food for her distracted husband. Frustrated with her humdrum existence, she succumbs to the seductions of a younger man. Finding happiness for the […]

February 22, 2017 · 1 comment

The legendary director Seijun Suzuki, who died on 13th February, is best known in the West for such quirky, idiosyncratic works as Youth of the Beast, Kanto Wanderer and Tokyo Drifter. These 1960s B-movie genre pictures playfully riffed on the “borderless action” mash-ups of gangster films, youth movies, musicals and westerns fostered by the Nikkatsu […]

February 20, 2017 · 0 comments

By Andrew Osmond. Funimation has released the second half of Yona of the Dawn, the fantasy adventure from a girls’ manga by Mizuho Kusanagi, about a bold red-haired princess-in-exile and the handsome male protectors that she gathers around herself. It’s been a while since the first anime volume (it came out last July), so if […]

February 19, 2017 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. In Japan, mobile games are big business. Blame it on the commute – on Tokyo trains, the jam-packed passengers are asked not to talk on their phones, and remarkably nearly all of them don’t talk. So instead they use their phones and tablets for browsing, texting and playing games. And they can […]