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
The Deadly Knives (1972)	Decent action makes up for a recycled story	2022-07-10	Simon
Pursuit of a Killer (1985)	Prototype Cat III nasty	2022-01-23	Simon
The Evil Karate (1971)	A fun low budget wuxia	2022-01-22	Simon
Hail The Judge (1994)	A few good scenes but suffers in translation	2021-09-21	Simon
Erotic Ghost Story (1990)	Barely delivers what the title promises	2021-09-02	Simon
Rape Zombie: Lust of the Dead 2 & 3 (2013)	Harder to defend than the first film	2021-08-28	Simon
The Citizen (1977)	Interesting but not all that good	2021-07-11	Simon
Tezuka's Barbara (2019)	Rather lifeless interpretation of a manga	2021-07-02	Simon
Black Mask (1996)	Sounds great on paper but doesn't deliver	2021-06-17	Simon
Bat Without Wings (1980)	Sadly the KISS makeup is really the best thing about it	2021-06-13	Simon
The City of Violence (2006)	Disappointing follow up to Arahan	2021-06-03	Simon
Big Bang Love: Juvenile A (2006)	Enigmatic and thought provoking, but is it art?	2021-06-01	Simon
Shaolin Drunkard (1983)	More Yuen Clan antics	2021-05-23	Simon
Laplace's Witch (2018)	Competent but generic murder mystery	2021-05-20	Simon
Hanagatami (2017)	If war is worth dying for, so is a festival	2021-05-14	Simon
The Angry Guest (1971)	What kind of guests? Angry guests.	2021-04-29	Simon
Vampire Clay (2017)	What if some clay was a vampire?	2021-04-02	Simon
Aces Go Places III (1984)	Lacks the chemistry of its predecessor	2021-04-01	Simon
Aces Go Places (1982)	Influential action comedy but terribly dated	2021-03-28	Simon
A Man Called Tiger (1973)	A fairly typical film of the era	2021-03-25	Simon
Snake And Crane Arts Of Shaolin (1978)	Great final reel but the rest is trash	2021-02-26	Simon
Tokyo Dragon Chef (2020)	Wacky foodie film hampered by zero budget	2021-01-31	Simon
Bullets of Justice (2019)	Weird in ways I never imagined a film could be weird	2020-10-21	Simon
The Brave Archer (1977)	Barebones adaptation of the Condor Heroes novels	2020-09-27	Simon
Ghost Squad (2018)	Decent idea, shame about the execution	2020-09-18	Simon
Spooky, Spooky (1988)	Nothing special	2020-09-04	Simon
Shinjuku Swan II (2017)	No real reason for this film to exist	2020-08-29	Simon
The Ghost Snatchers (1986)	Who you gonna call? Not these guys.	2020-08-28	Simon
Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967)	Pretentious nonsense	2020-08-22	Simon
Wonder Seven (1994)	Not Ching Siu-Tung's finest hour	2020-08-01	Simon