Week of August 18th - Visitor Q

Visitor Q is one of the most disturbing and taboo bashing experimental works from acclaimed director Takashi Miike of Audition, Dead of Alive and Fudoh fame. Visitor Q presents a harrowing, absurdist take on the reality TV phenomenon, depicting the chilling disintegration of a dysfunctional family. Starring Kenichi Endo (Dead of Alive 2, Takeshi Kitano's Violent Cop) Visitor Q seals Miike's reputation as one of world cinema's most daring and dangerous cinematic visionaries.

Posted by Mister Midnight

Sukiyaki Western Django trailer

Famed Japanese auteur Takashi Miike, who is best known for cult classics such as Audition, Ichi: the Killer, and Children of Lost Souls, brings a fresh new look at the beloved spaghetti Western genre in Sukiyaki Western Django.

Posted by Mister Midnight

Week of July 14th - Ichi the Killer

Welcome to a world where violence is a virtue and depravity is a way of life. This is the underside of Shinjuku, and the Home of Kakihara, a sadistic Yakuza killer. He relentlessly tears apart the underworld searching for the man who killed his boss.

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Sukiyaki Western Django review

Already known for his absurdist take on most film genres, Takashi Miike shatters all expectations once again with SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO, his interpretation of the Spaghetti Western.

Posted by Bavota San

MADAME O is Coming Out to Getcha

Synapse Films will be releasing MADAME O on DVD as part of their ongoing Asian Cult Cinema Collection.

Posted by Mister Midnight

Jigoku DVD review

Almost totally unseen in North America for over forty years and remade twice in Japan, the legendary JIGOKU (Hell) has finally arrived on our Region 1 shores courtesy of none other than the Criterion Collection. Possibly the first gore film ever made, JIGOKU's ultraviolent content had never been duplicated in the mainstream until Herschell Gordon Lewis’s Blood Feast in 1963.

Posted by Chris Barry