Reviews from Japan

Superlative - everyone should see this

Great, a must-see if you like the genre

Good, a decent example of the genre

Watchable, but only for serious genre fans

Unwatchable

Half stars could have gone either way depending on mood.

Movie Name / Release Year	Summary	Date	Reviewer
Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967)	Pretentious nonsense	2020-08-22	Simon
Crab Goalkeeper (2006)	There must be something only a crab can do?	2020-08-22	Simon
Monday (2000)	Just one of those days	2020-08-22	Simon
The Forest of Love (2019)	Cinema is life, you know	2020-08-16	Simon
Samurai II: Duel At Ichijoji Temple (1955)	The way of women is to love	2020-08-15	Simon
Helter Skelter (2012)	It's certainly convenient to be pretty	2020-08-15	Simon
Hana and Alice (2004)	...read review...	2020-08-11	Simon
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954)	One of the classic samurai films	2020-08-09	Simon
Boiling Point (1990)	Stylish and whimsical	2020-07-24	Simon
Hausu (1977)	Off the wall	2020-07-19	Simon
Violent Cop (1989)	A landmark in Japanese cinema	2020-07-11	Simon
The Virgin Psychics (2015)	It's outrageous	2020-06-25	Simon
Tokyo Fist (1995)	Peak Shinya Tsukamoto	2020-05-23	Simon
Raivu (2014)	Something went horribly wrong here	2020-05-10	Simon
Meatball Machine (2005)	Budget constrained but imaginative	2020-05-10	Simon
Meatball Machine: Kodoku (2017)	One of the great works of cinema	2020-05-10	Simon
Girl's Blood (2014)	Largely inexplicable fusion of elements but somehow it works	2019-11-16	Simon
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (2014)	Just as enjoyable and well made as the first film	2016-01-31	Simon
God's Puzzle (2008)	Miike takes on the universe	2015-01-25	Simon
R100 (2013)	Only in Japan	2014-10-05	Simon
Lesson of the Evil (2012)	Another high school nightmare from Japan	2014-03-09	Simon
Confessions (2010)	One sin leads to another	2014-03-08	Simon
The Land Of Hope (2012)	Gently urgent warning about Fukushima	2014-01-05	Simon
Sonatine (1993)	Beautifully meditative take on the yakuza film	2013-12-15	Simon
Red Tears (2011)	Rather tepid action/horror/splatter film	2013-11-16	Simon
Tomie: Unlimited (2011)	Mostly dull with patches of imagination	2013-08-04	Simon
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)	Perhaps the strangest thing you will ever see	2013-06-10	Simon
Sukiyaki Western Django (2007)	Strange beast, merits a second viewing	2013-06-09	Simon
Parasite Doctor Suzune: Genesis (2011)	Cosplay soft porn	2013-05-26	Simon
The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God In A Coin Locker (2007)	Ducks and Dylan	2013-05-26	Simon