Japanese Yokai can be cute. On the flipside, they can be utterly evil and scary too! Here are 15 deadly Yokai you’d never want to meet, within or outside of Japan.
A Fistful of Dollars made Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name into a timeless antihero. What few western fans realised was that Dollars was a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s propulsive samurai classic, Yojimbo. Swap six-shooters for swords and the old west for the late Edo period in Japan, ...
Founded in 2008 in Tokyo, Solaris Japan has been a leading international anime store and retailer for Japanese anime figures, Figma and Nendoroid. Our extensive franchise range covers figures from One Piece, Dragon Ball, Death Note and Bleach to name a few. We also carry a vast stock of imp...
and quite content to avoid attention. Then she meets a new guy named Kou, who looks similar to her old love but has a different last name. Futaba becomes determined to find out if this is her old friend Kou, and if he is, why he moved away so suddenly. ...
Synopsis:Two 20-year-old women called Nana Osaki and Nana Komatsu meet for the first time on a bullet train to Tokyo. While they have the same name, the pair couldn’t be more different in their personalities. The excitable Nana Osaki is a bubbly character who envisions moving in with ...
Writer and director Yasujirō Ozu is another name whose regard goes far beyond what they achieved in Japan. There is no question that when we look to the best Japanese movies, we have at least several hundred choices to consider. This is the country that gave us Ugetsu, Battle Royale, and...
Yet, a 2014 book by August Ragone (published by Chronicle Books), makes a good case for another filmmaker from Japan whose worldwide popularity, especially among sci-fi/fantasy fans, is probably greater than Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Kon Ichikawa combined. His name is Eiji ...
Julien even recognized a song and everyone had a laugh over the name of the band. They thought “Of Monsters and Men” would have been a much more rock show than the mellow easy tunes that they really are. Dancing to a light mist and a wonderful day, we all couldn’t be happier ...
are nominally not seeing the metanarratives of the past in the landscape, or are seeking to avoid framing them that way for the viewer. And yet Sakatadoesseem aware of the bigger societal shifts — Black Lives Matter, MeToo, climate activism, to name a few — and that these affect any ...
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