Irezumi (1966)
Stylish Japanese tale of vengeance with samurais and geishas.
Stylish Japanese tale of vengeance with samurais and geishas.
Dir: Yasuzô Masumura (Arrow Video). Review by Phil Bailey.
Teruo Ishii’s first torture film gets the love from Arrow Video on a lush new Blu-ray.
Kôji Wakamatsu’s 1967 horror film inspired by the Richard Speck nurse murders is still shocking decades later.
Sweet Candy Power (Good Charamel Records). Review by Carl F. Gauze.
Exterminate the cockroaches and secure the future !
A confusing and idiosyncratic movie about a communist cell in 1950’s Japan and where they ended up in 1970.
Japanese female revenge women-in-prison movies have never been so graphic.
Pray For Death’s protagonist goes total Kung Fu on the bad guys leaving us with a weird mix of On the Waterfront meets Ran.
Metalander-Z (Chicken Ranch). Review by Carl F Gauze.
A failed actor swaps places with a professional killer who then falls in love with a driven woman in this plot driven romantic comedy from Japan.
An arty and eerie horror film fuses western and eastern ideas of vampirism and looks totally cool as well.
A little-known 1998 teenage romance Manga gets a reissue.
Eternal Spring (Vaudeville Park). Review by Ben Varkentine.
Eternal Spring (Vaudeville Park). Review by Ben Varkentine.
Screen Review by Leo Oiler
Charles DJ Deppner takes a look at a new book of artwork by DEVO’s Mark Mothersbaugh, and discovers the book is actually looking back at him.
Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds’ “Wicked World” video features Alice Bag, previews That Delicious Vice, out April 19 on In The Red Records.
Despite serving up ample slices of signature snark, FOX News golden boy Jesse Watters, for the most part, just listens — driving the narrative of his latest book, Get It Together, through the stories of others.
Brooklyn rapper Max Gertler finds himself a bit ground up on “Put My Heart in a Jay,” his latest single.
The dissolution of a wealthy Russian family confuses everyone involved.