Godzilla: Final Wars
March 2, 2006
Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) not only celebrated the 50th anniversary of the legendary lizard but has also been touted by the studio that created it as the monster’s swan song. Of course, this has been said in the past and impressive world-wide box office...
Forbidden Games
March 2, 2006
Francois Boyer wrote a screenplay called Forbidden Games but was unable to sell it because of the frank way it dealt with death during the German blitz on France in World War II. So, he rewrote it as a novel and got it published in 1947 under the title,...
The Bad Sleep Well
March 2, 2006
The Bad Sleep Well (1960) marked the debut of filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s independent production company. He had grown tired of making samurai films for the studio and wanted to do something different. The subject matter of his new movie – corporate...
Pulse
March 1, 2006
The recent wave of Japanese horror films in the past five years or so seem to have been influenced in some way by the use of electricity and the manipulation of electronic images for horrific effect in David Lynch’s films, Twin Peaks – Fire Walk With...
