World cinema beyond Hollywood, reviewed without the grading curve. Subtitles are a small price for the best storytelling happening anywhere on the planet.
ActionMortal is what a superhero origin story looks like when the director comes from Norwegian horror cinema instead of from American comic book adaptation. Both films treat supernatural material as if it were happening in a country that has actual…
Foreign MoviesTakashi Shimizu's haunted house horror where a curse spreads from anyone who enters a Tokyo home where a murder occurred. Ju-On: The Grudge is Takashi Shimizu's 2002 Japanese supernatural horror film depicting a curse that spreads from anyone who enters…
Foreign MoviesTakashi Miike directs the story of a widower staging fake auditions to find a new wife, with consequences he could not anticipate. Audition is Takashi Miike's 1999 Japanese horror-thriller film depicting a Tokyo widower who stages fake film auditions to…
Foreign MoviesHideo Nakata directs the Japanese supernatural horror about a cursed videotape that kills viewers seven days after watching. Ringu is Hideo Nakata's 1998 Japanese supernatural horror film adapted from Koji Suzuki's 1991 novel, depicting a Tokyo television reporter investigating a…
Foreign Movies
Foreign MoviesHideo Gosha's 1964 directorial debut. Three masterless samurai aid peasant uprising.
AdventureKurosawa's 1958 medieval adventure. Mifune as general, two bumbling peasants.
DramaYoji Yamada's 2002 late-Edo samurai drama. Hiroyuki Sanada as widowed petty officer.
Foreign MoviesKenji Misumi's 1972 first Lone Wolf film. The film depicts disgraced shogunate executioner Ogami Itto and his infant son Daigoro wandering Edo-period Japan after the Yagyu clan has destroyed Itto's wife and falsely accused him of treason.
Foreign MoviesKihachi Okamoto's 1966 nihilist samurai film. Tatsuya Nakadai as soulless killer.
Foreign Movies
DramaWong Kar-wai's 2000 1960s Hong Kong romance. In the Mood for Love is Wong Kar-wai's 2000 Hong Kong romantic drama depicting the unconsummated relationship between Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen, neighbors in 1962 Hong Kong who discover their respective spouses…
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