Arthouse Reviews

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
Fun Bar Karaoke (1997)	...read review...	2020-09-27	Simon
Guilty of Romance (2011)	With women nothing is impossible	2020-09-22	Simon
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)	Sion Sono doing his best Takashi Miike impression	2020-09-14	Simon
Human, Space, Time and Human (2018)	Waste of space, time and human	2020-09-01	Simon
Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967)	Pretentious nonsense	2020-08-22	Simon
The Butterfly Murders (1979)	Tsui Hark's first film	2020-08-17	Simon
The Forest of Love (2019)	Cinema is life, you know	2020-08-16	Simon
Helter Skelter (2012)	It's certainly convenient to be pretty	2020-08-15	Simon
Vampire (2012)	Not a film about a vampire	2020-08-13	Simon
Hana and Alice (2004)	...read review...	2020-08-11	Simon
Dangerous Encounter - 1st Kind (1980)	Controversial	2020-08-02	Simon
Boiling Point (1990)	Stylish and whimsical	2020-07-24	Simon
Hausu (1977)	Off the wall	2020-07-19	Simon
3-Iron (2004)	How to disappear completely	2020-06-13	Simon
Tokyo Fist (1995)	Peak Shinya Tsukamoto	2020-05-23	Simon
Aberdeen (2014)	Quietly, gently, beautifully devastating	2020-02-22	Simon
God's Puzzle (2008)	Miike takes on the universe	2015-01-25	Simon
The Midnight After (2014)	Uneven and ultimately a bit unsatisfying	2015-01-17	Simon
R100 (2013)	Only in Japan	2014-10-05	Simon
The Land Of Hope (2012)	Gently urgent warning about Fukushima	2014-01-05	Simon
Only God Forgives (2013)	Pretentious and tedious	2014-01-02	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
Isn't Anyone Alive? (2012)	Definitely interesting, but not sure if I liked it	2013-05-25	Simon
Fish Story (2009)	Can music save the world?	2013-05-03	Simon
The Grandmaster (2013)	Incoherent and overblown	2013-04-07	Simon
Not One Less (1999)	Manipulative but good	2013-02-09	Simon
A War Named Desire (2000)	Stylish gangster tale	2013-01-13	Simon
The Odd One Dies (1997)	Quirky, cool tale of damaged characters	2013-01-06	Simon
The Bride With White Hair (1993)	One of the most beautiful and tragic wu xia films	2013-01-03	Simon