There is a long tradition of on-screen female action stars in Chinese cinema history. Sometimes referred to as 打女/Du Na (see THIS excellent video by Accented Cinema for a deeper dive into this tradition) and starting back when Shanghai was the centre of the Chinese film-making world in the 1930s […]
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A Fugitive from the Past (1965) A ruthless Japanese Masterpiece FINALLY makes its UK debut (Blu-Ray Review)
Tomu Uchida isn’t a name that immediately jumps out to western audiences when discussing the greats of Japanese cinema. A director that had been around since the silent era but lacking a distinctive style like Mizoguchi or Ozu, and whilst he would show a flair for many a genre and […]
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash (2021) Entertainingly Rustic Genre Mashup… with Caveats (VOD review)
I do love a good mashup of genres in a movie. From Horror Musicals to Sci-Fi Actioners, a blending of ideas and rules often hits my cinematic sweet spot and probably explains my penchant for Korean cinema. So when I heard of Edwin’s 2021 Indonesian film Vengeance is Mine, All […]
The Deer King (2021) Too many characters fail to spoil this sumptuous anime (Cinema Review)
Once upon a time the name Production IG carried a certain gravitas. With works such as the 1995 film adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, the eerily seductive Blood: The Last Vampire and later to be recognised by the great Hollywood machine in the form of Quentin Tarantino (who requested […]