Drama 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
Dangerous Encounter - 1st Kind (1980)	Controversial	2020-08-02	Simon
Boiling Point (1990)	Stylish and whimsical	2020-07-24	Simon
Violent Cop (1989)	A landmark in Japanese cinema	2020-07-11	Simon
My Sassy Girl (2001)	The most romantic movie of all time?	2020-06-19	Simon
Killer's Nocturne (1987)	Chin Siu-Ho fights a kangaroo	2020-06-14	Simon
Meatball Machine: Kodoku (2017)	One of the great works of cinema	2020-05-10	Simon
Once Upon A Time In China II (1992)	One of the finest sequels ever made?	2020-03-27	Simon
Aberdeen (2014)	Quietly, gently, beautifully devastating	2020-02-22	Simon
What Price Honesty? (1981)	Shallow and mediocre	2019-08-25	Simon
The Midnight After (2014)	Uneven and ultimately a bit unsatisfying	2015-01-17	Simon
Metro Manila (2013)	Poverty and corruption	2014-10-19	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
Blind Detective (2013)	A glorious mess of a film	2014-01-03	Simon
Only God Forgives (2013)	Pretentious and tedious	2014-01-02	Simon
Detective Story (2007)	Name pretty much sums it up	2013-04-05	Simon
Not One Less (1999)	Manipulative but good	2013-02-09	Simon
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994)	Captures a moment in Chinese history well	2013-01-30	Simon
A War Named Desire (2000)	Stylish gangster tale	2013-01-13	Simon
Throne Of Blood (1957)	Kurosawa's interpretation of Macbeth	2013-01-04	Simon
Like A Dragon (2007)	Miike finds another fresh way to take on the Yakuza genre	2012-12-05	Simon
Melancholia (2011)	A strangely beautiful film about being depressed	2012-11-29	Simon
Villain (2010)	A film of two halves... neither very good	2012-11-25	Simon
Kotoko (2011)	A journey into a very troubled mind	2012-11-22	Simon
Rashomon (1950)	Kurosawa looks at the blackness of the human heart	2012-11-13	Simon
Himizu (2011)	It's tough to be a teenager.	2012-10-24	Simon
Running On Karma (2003)	Repeat viewings mandatory	2012-10-12	Simon
Dreaming Lhasa (2007)	Quite enjoyable	2012-06-07	Simon
20:30:40 (2004)	A skillful and subtle movie	2012-06-07	Simon
A Bittersweet Life (2005)	Will have to watch it again, might have been in the wrong mood	2012-05-30	Simon