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LATEST Asian Cinema REVIEW

The Villainess
A slick, bloodthirsty popcorn thriller hampered by disjointed execution

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Sweet Little Lies

A beautiful, painful experience, this is a delicate examination of complicated human emotions. Hitoshi Yazaki has created an exceptionally well crafted, thoughtful film which deserves wider recognition.

Shady

An astonishing debut film. Shocking and disturbing in equal measure, this psychological thriller needs to be seen to be believed.

Instant Swamp

Another charming feelgood comedy-drama from Satoshi Miki: fans of his will love it.

LATEST Asian Cinema REVIEWS

Fires on the Plain (Dual Format Release)

posted by Laurence Green
11 Sep 2017

A raw, uncompromising artistic vision that puts the 'experience' back into cinema.

Death Note (Netflix)

posted by Ross Liversidge
30 Aug 2017

Distinctly the lesser of a superior evil, but certainly no disaster. Enjoyable but ultimately throwaway entertainment.

Shin Godzilla: Theatrical Review

posted by Seb Reid
11 Aug 2017

A great Godzilla film for Godzilla fans, but maybe not for everyone.

We Are X

posted by Dan Barnett
23 May 2017

Insightful, powerful, fun and with big hair to boot!

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Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker, The 1

8/10

13 Assassins 2

9/10

1911: Revolution 3

5/10

252: Sign of Life 4

5/10

About Her Brother (Otouto) 5

7/10

6/10

9/10

9/10

8/10

Akira Kurosawa Samurai Collection 10

8/10

Ang Lee Trilogy 1

8/10

Antique Bakery 2

7/10

Arirang 3

9/10

Asleep 4

8/10

Assassination Classroom 5

8/10

Assassins, The 6

7/10

Asura: The City of Madness 7

9/10

Attack on Titan: Parts 1 and 2 (Theatrical screening) 8

5/10

Attack on Titan: The Movie - Part 1 9

6/10

Attack on Titan: The Movie - Part 2: End of the World 10

6/10

Au revoir l'ete 1

8/10

Audition 2

9/10

Back to 1942 3

7/10

Bad Company (Mabudachi) 4

7/10

Battles Without Honour and Humanity Box Set 5

10/10

Be My Baby (Theatrical screening) 6

7/10

Behind the Camera 7

8/10

Black Society Trilogy 8

8/10

Blade of Kings 9

5/10

Bleak Night 10

8/10

Blind Woman's Curse 1

8/10

8/10

8/10

9/10

9/10

Bullet Vanishes, The 6

8/10

Cold War 7

7/10

Coming Home 8

7/10

Concrete Clouds 9

7/10

Confessions 10

10/10

Cops vs Thugs 1

8/10

Crime or Punishment?!? 2

8/10

Crocodile 3

8/10

Crows Zero 4

8/10

Crows Zero II 5

8/10

Dark Harbour, The (Futoko) 6

8/10

Dark Water 7

8/10

Dead or Alive Trilogy 8

8/10

Dear Doctor 9

6/10

Death Bell 10

5/10

Death Note (Netflix) 1

7/10

Death Note (TV) 2

7/10

Death Notice: Ikigami 3

8/10

Desire to Kill 4

7/10

Destruction Babies 5

1/10

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame 6

9/10

Dolls 7

9/10

Dong-ju: The Portrait of a Poet (Theatrical screening) 8

8/10

Doomsday Book 9

7/10

Dragon 10

8/10

Drudgery Train, The 1

9/10

Edge of Tomorrow 2

6/10

Exit 3

9/10

Fairy Tale Killer 4

5/10

Farewell My Concubine 5

9/10

Female Prisoner Scorpion: The Complete Collection 6

8/10

Fires on the Plain 7

8/10

Fires on the Plain (Dual Format Release) 8

7/10

Flowers of War, The 9

7/10

For Love's Sake 10

7/10

For Love's Sake (Theatrical screening) 1

9/10

Four, The 2

7/10

Fuku-chan of FukuFuku Flats (Theatrical screening) 3

8/10

Gallants 4

8/10

Gantz 5

7/10

Gantz: Perfect Answer 6

8/10

Garm Wars: The Last Druid 7

6/10

Genghis: The Legend of the Ten 8

6/10

Ghost in the Shell 9

7/10

Girl At My Door, A (Theatrical Review) 10

9/10

6/10

6/10

7/10

7/10

9/10

Hana-bi 6

9/10

Happiness of the Katakuris, The 7

8/10

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai 8

7/10

Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (Ichimei) 3D 9

7/10

Hard Day, A 10

8/10

Helpless (Theatrical screening) 1

8/10

Helter Skelter 2

7/10

Himizu 3

8/10

Himizu (Theatrical release) 4

10/10

HK: Forbidden Superhero 5

7/10

House, The 6

5/10

How To Use Guys With Secret Tips 7

7/10

Human Condition Trilogy, The 8

9/10

I Just Didn't Do It (Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai) 9

8/10

I Wish (Kiseki) 10

8/10

I Wish (Theatrical screening) 1

8/10

Insect Woman, The (Nippon-Konchuki) 2

9/10

Instant Swamp 3

9/10

Isn't Anyone Alive? 4

7/10

Judge! (Theatrical screening) 5

8/10

Kai (Theatrical screening) 6

6/10

Kick, The 7

4/10

Kids Return 8

8/10

Kiju Yoshida: Love Plus Anarchism 9

10/10

Kikujiro 10

9/10

King of Fists and Dollars 1

6/10

Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, The 2

9/10

Kirishima Thing, The (Theatrical screening) 3

8/10

Kite 4

6/10

Kumiko The Treasure Hunter 5

8/10

Kunoichi: Ninja Girl 6

3/10

Lady Snowblood / Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance 7

9/10

Land of Hope, The 8

7/10

Land of Hope, The (Theatrical screening) 9

9/10

Last Princess, The 10

8/10

Lesson of Evil 1

7/10

Let the Bullets Fly 2

9/10

Let the Bullets Fly (Theatrical) 3

8/10

Like Father Like Son 4

8/10

Like Someone in Love 5

9/10

Lost Bladesman, The 6

7/10

Love & Peace 7

8/10

Love Exposure (Blu-Ray) 8

7/10

Love Strikes! (Moteki) 9

6/10

Lowlife Love 10

7/10

Makeup Room 1

7/10

Man With Style, A - Azemichi no Dandi 2

7/10

Massacre Gun 3

8/10

Matter of Interpretation, A 4

8/10

Miss Granny 5

7/10

Missing 6

8/10

Mitsuko Delivers 7

7/10

Mitsuko Delivers (Theatrical release) 8

7/10

Moebius (Theatrical Screening) 9

8/10

Monster Chronicles, The: Tiktik 10

7/10

Mountains May Depart 1

9/10

My Ex 2

3/10

My Way 3

6/10

New Directors From Japan 4

8/10

Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Vol. 1 5

9/10

Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Vol. 2 6

8/10

Ninja Battle 7

4/10

Ninja Kids!!! (Theatrical Screening) 8

8/10

Obon Brothers 9

8/10

Ode to My Father 10

7/10

One on One (Theatrical screening) 1

6/10

One Way Trip 2

8/10

Otakus in Love 3

8/10

Outlaw: Gangster VIP Collection 4

9/10

Over Your Dead Body 5

7/10

Pale Moon 6

9/10

Parasyte the Movie: Part 1 7

8/10

Parasyte the Movie: Part 2 8

8/10

Petty Romance 9

8/10

Phantom Detective, The (Theatrical screening) 10

8/10

Piper, The 1

8/10

Pluto 2

9/10

Poetry 3

9/10

Quiet Dream, A 4

8/10

Quirky Guys and Gals 5

7/10

Rashomon 6

9/10

Rebirth (Theatrical screening) 7

9/10

Re-Cycle 8

8/10

Reign of Assassins 9

8/10

Retaliation 10

7/10

Revenge: A Love Story 1

6/10

Rigor Mortis 2

7/10

Road Stained Crimson, A 3

8/10

Rogue Ninja 4

3/10

Rolling 5

7/10

Romance Joe 6

7/10

Rurouni Kenshin 2: Kyoto Inferno 7

8/10

Rurouni Kenshin 3: The Legend Ends 8

8/10

Ryuzo and the Seven Henchmen 9

8/10

Sacrifice 10

8/10

Sado Tempest (Arashi) 1

7/10

Sake-Bomb 2

6/10

Sake-Bomb (Theatrical screening) 3

6/10

Salute! Sun Yat-Sen 4

8/10

Samurai Warrior 5

5/10

Samurai Zombie 6

6/10

Saudade 7

8/10

Sawako Decides 8

7/10

Scene at the Sea, A 9

9/10

Serpent's Path / Eye of the Spider 10

8/10

Seven Samurai (60th anniversary BFI Blu-ray) 1

8/10

Shackled (Belenggu) 2

7/10

Shady 3

9/10

Shameless, The 4

8/10

Shanghai 13 5

7/10

Shaolin 6

8/10

Shin Godzilla: Theatrical Review 7

8/10

Shirome 8

7/10

Snake of June, A 9

9/10

Snow White Murder Case, The (Theatrical screening) 10

8/10

Somi: The Taekwon-do Woman 1

8/10

Space Battleship Yamato 2

8/10

Spring in a Small Town 3

8/10

Story of Yonosuke 4

8/10

Story of Yonosuke, The 5

8/10

Stray Cat Rock Collection 6

8/10

Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist 7

9/10

Suicide Club 8

8/10

Sweet Little Lies 9

9/10

Tag 10

8/10

Tale of Iya, The 1

9/10

Tale of Samurai Cooking - A True Love Story, A 2

7/10

Taste of Money, The 3

7/10

Tetsuo: The Iron Man / Tetsuo II: Body Hammer 4

10/10

The Villainess 5

7/10

The Yellow Sea (Hwanghae) 6

8/10

Thermae Romae (Theatrical screening) 7

7/10

Thunderbolt Fantasy Eps. 1-5 8

8/10

Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 9

6/10

Tokyo Fist 10

9/10

Toshiaki Toyoda: The Early Years 1

8/10

Touch of Sin, A 2

8/10

Train to Busan (Theatrical screening) 3

8/10

Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers 4

7/10

Twenty 5

7/10

Ultraman X Eps. 1-7 6

7/10

Underwater Love 7

6/10

Unforgiven 8

9/10

Unlucky Woman's Blues 9

6/10

Uzumasa Limelight 10

8/10

Veteran 1

8/10

Victim, The 2

6/10

Villain 3

7/10

Violent Prosecutor, A (Theatrical screening) 4

8/10

Vulgaria 5

8/10

We Are X 6

9/10

Wood Job! 7

8/10

Woodsman and the Rain, The 8

8/10

World of Kanako, The (Theatrical Screening) 9

8/10

Wu Xia 10

9/10

Yakuza Hunters / Yakuza Hunters 2 1

6/10

Yatterman 2

8/10