the jaded viewer

The one thing you can count on from Takashi Miike, Japan's uber cult film director, is that from start to finish your going on a drugged up Kool aid magic carpet ride of super duper violence and scenarios that would make your mom cry.

Miike goes back to high school with Crow Zero aka Kurôzu zero. Yakuza, bullying and power hungry rivals. What else do you need?

Based on a manga (doesn't it seem all Japanese movies are from mangas?), it's big budget blockbusters for the masses.

Do they even go to class in Japan?

Check out the trailer below.



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Posted by the jaded viewer at 12:01 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Here's yet another retro review from Insano Steve!

City of Lost Souls

City of Lost Souls (2000)

Directed by Takashi Miike

A Chinese lady (a georgeous former Miss Hong Kong) falls in love with Brazilian guy in Japan. They decide to flee overseas as they've angered both the Triad and the Yakuza in a botched cocaine deal.

The Yakuza have kidnapped the Brazilian's blind love child forcing him to kick some major ass before he can leave Japan.

All the wacked out Miike characters are present here including some CGI cocks (that means roosters!).

The infamous cock fighting is below! You gotta see this!



Trailer:



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Posted by the jaded viewer at 12:09 AM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post

Ryuhei Kitamura first burst into the horror radar scene with his ultimate zombie/yakuza movie Versus. His popularity soared with Azumi and he finally got on the Hollywood scene by directing the last Godzilla film: Gojira: Final Wars.

Now, he's teamed up with Clive Barker to bring us Midnight Meat Train, a horror movie where a New York photographer hunts down a serial killer in the subways of NYC.

The trailer looks like a bad J-Horror movie but if 2 people can pull off a soon to be cult favorite it's Barker and Kitamura.

Check out the trailer for Midnight Meat Train.

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Posted by the jaded viewer at 2:52 PM | Permalink | Comments | links to this post