Big Time Gambling Boss
Writer Kazuo Kasahara and director Kôsaku Yamashita transcend genre conventions to create the memorable film Big Time Gambling Boss. Phil Bailey reviews.
Tag: Japan
Futari
Beyond (Libra Records). Review by Bob Pomeroy.
Shogun’s Joy of Torture
Teruo Ishii’s first torture film gets the love from Arrow Video on a lush new Blu-ray.
Burst City
A low budget Japanese art film about punks, drag racing and teenage rebellion.
Inferno of Torture
Teruo Ishii’s classic of pinky violence has new life on Blu-ray.
Hot Mikado
What if Gilbert and Sullivan did “Chicago” with the cast of “Happy Days”?
Sisyphean
Japanese sci-fi at its weirdest.
Ramen Heads
An in-depth exploration of Japanese Ramen Noodle culture. Yum!
Attack Force Z
Aussie Special forces go behind enemy lines in WW2 Asia to recover the crew of a lost airplane including an important defector.
Oh, Yoko
I Love You (Normal Cookie). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Gallhammer
The End (Peaceville). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Jiro’s well known sushi restaurant is in a Tokyo subway station, has ten seats, a bathroom off premises and three Michelin stars.
The Horrors
Skying (XL). Review by Matthew Moyer.
jj
jj no.3 (Secretly Canadian). Review by Matthew Moyer.
KK Null
Oxygen Flash (Neurot Recordings). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Pastels/ Tenniscoats
Two Sunsets (Domino). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Pastels/ Tenniscoats
Two Sunsets (Domino). Review by Matthew Moyer.
Blacklist
Too young to be fully cognizant of the more embarrassing excesses of Gothic music over the past twenty years, the young Turks of NYC’s own Blacklist are, perhaps unwittingly, the best hope of redeeming Goth-metal. Fresh from a European tour complete with horned hotel antics, Blacklist frontman and provocateur Josh Strawn told Ink 19 all about how he learned to stop worrying and love Motorhead and Scott Walker equally.
Lullatone
Musical duos have become their own genre, much in the same way the Beatles helped define the bass, drums, guitars rock quartet. Matthew Moyer looks inside the husband/wife duo of Lullatone to explore the seriousness of toy instruments and just how much babies love Busta Rhymes.
Lullatone
We Will Rock You… To Sleep (Audio Dregs). Review by Matthew Moyer.
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