Brother (2000)
Movie
A Japanese Yakuza gangster’s deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles,...
Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
Movie
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese...
Stories That Last Through The Sleepless Nights by Foreground Eclipse
10.0
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Album
Stories That Last Through The Sleepless Nights is a doujin album by Foreground Eclipse released...
Japanese Touhou Project Post-Hardcore J-Rock
Godzilla Vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)
5.3
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Movie
Twentieth Godzilla movie. The Japanese government's plans to use a huge armoured replica of Godzilla...
monster movie
Dogora (1964)
5.3
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Japanese sci-fi monster movie from the team behind the Godzilla series. Radiation in space causes...
Awix (3310 KP) rated Gamera: Revenge of Iris (1999) in Movies
Mar 15, 2019 (Updated Mar 15, 2019)
Incomplete Struggle (a much better title to my mind) is much more of a fantasy film than the previous chapter in the story, once again playing cleverly with various tropes of Japanese monster stories. The script takes the trouble to include characters from both previous films (it is clearly intended as a grand conclusion to the story) and also explores notions of pre-millennial angst. Once again, the monster battles are superbly staged, but the big ideas explored by the film are also fascinating, even if some elements of the story are left a bit vague. What one person sees as vaulting imagination and ambition, another may see as the script getting a bit out of control; some may also have an issue with the deliberate lack of closure at the very end of the film. Nevertheless, this movie manages to give the Japanese kaiju genre a sense of majesty and gravitas it has seldom achieved anywhere else.
Provoke: Between Protest and Performance - Photography in Japan 1960 / 1975
Diane Dufour and Pierre Hourquet
Book
The short-lived Japanese magazine Provoke is recognized as a major achievement in world photography...
Photography
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord
6.6
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Takuma Sakamoto is a hikikomori gamer who is mysteriously transported to the world like the world of...
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2165 KP) rated Stalking The Angel (Elvis Cole, #2) in Books
Mar 9, 2018
Part of my reaction to this book was purely personal – it is darker than I normally read. Still, the bleakness did bother me. Even so, I found the plot uneven, especially when it slowed way down two thirds of the way through for a segment that felt like a lecture. The characters became more real as the book went along, but they started out as stiff types as well. Maybe I’m just expecting too much since I know how popular the series is, but I feel like, my complaints about the darkness of the book aside, it still could have been better.
Read my full review at <a href="http://carstairsconsiders.blogspot.com/2014/10/book-review-stalking-angel-by-robert.html">Carstairs Considers</a>.
Designing Design
Book
Representing a new generation of designers in Japan, Kenya Hara (born 1958) pays tribute to his...