Search Results for: Jasper Sharp

July 9, 2018 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. A private eye gets caught in the middle of a Tokyo gang war, when two gun-running yakuza clans are ripped off by a third. Made by cult director Seijun Suzuki at Nikkatsu in 1963, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! was also his first to feature Jo Shishido in a leading […]

June 17, 2018 · 0 comments

[WARNING: Content potentially Not Safe For Work] By Jasper Sharp. The three titles in Mushi Pro’s short-lived “Animerama” series, A Thousand & One Nights (1969), Cleopatra (1970) and Belladonna of Sadness (1973), arrived at an interesting juncture in the history of Japanese animation and Osamu Tezuka’s Mushi Production.

May 4, 2018 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. Two years ago, the British film magazine Little White Lies interviewed director Hiromasa Yonebayashi, then best known for directing Ghibli’s Arrietty and When Marnie was There. Yonebayashi was asked about the first Ghibli films he saw. Nausicaa and Totoro, he answered. “I’ve been watching all of them since I was a child… […]

April 23, 2018 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. The first thought that immediately sprang to my mind when I picked up Kurosawa’s Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside His Iconic Films by Paul Anderer was: “Does the world really need another book on Kurosawa?” Since Donald Richie gave the West the first systematic study with […]

April 3, 2018 · 1 comment

We have officially reached the month April and we kick off the month with two very different releases that are available to add to your collection. Read on below for the details. NEW RELEASES FOR WEEK COMMENCING: 2nd APRIL 2018 THE TESTAMENT OF SISTER NEW DEVIL: SEASON 1 FORMAT: Ltd. Collector’s Ed. Blu-ray, standard DVD BBFC […]