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November 17, 2003 •
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director Kazuya Tsurumaki This is simply the most crazed, unhinged animated series ever. It is filled with elements so disparate, creativity so unchecked, and such a frenzied pounding-together of fascinating thematic materials that its genius is just as
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November 6, 2003 •
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director Yadate Hajime A very clever project from one of the animation directors of Giant Robo. This fairly limited television miniseries presents a unique view of a sort of a slick, industrial city; far enough in the future to have a variety of fantastic
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October 14, 2003 •
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director Yasuharu Hasebe Color 87 min A Nikkatsu quickie from the action days, a very hammy James-Bond-style movie in which a photographer (Akira Kobayashi, almost alarmingly bad in his Bond-knockoff role) hits on a girl who is then kidnapped by the
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October 1, 2003 •
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director Takashi Miike Color 99 min Director Takashi Miike is a curious person. After working as Shohei Immamura’s assistant director for years, he suddenly began his own directing career at the age of 40. Since that point, ten years ago now, he has
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August 29, 2003 •
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director Sogo Ishii The undiscovered gem of 90s world cinema. Angel Dust is a hallucinatory mind-trip that announced formerly proto-punk director Sogo Ishii as the most artful of pop filmmakers. Angel Dust is a disconcerting experience, a film about mind
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August 29, 2003 •
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Comments Off on Appleseed (1988)
Probably one of the worst adaptations possible of one of the best Mangas ever written, this hour-long animated suspense-thriller is just a dud. It forgoes all the astounding design Masamune Shirow covered his comic book with, as well as all of the high-flying
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August 29, 2003 •
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dir: Takashi Miike; writer: Itaru Era Cast: Kenichi Endo ( Kiyoshi Yamazaki/Father), Fujiko (I) (Miki Yamazaki/Daughter), Jun Muto (Takuya Yamazaki/Son), Shoko Nakahara (Asako Murata), Ikko Suzuki (Sasaoka), Shungiku Uchida (Keiko Yamazaki/Mother), Kazushi
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August 15, 2003 •
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Comments Off on Labyrinth of Dreams (1997)
Country: Japan Director: Sogo Ishii Producer: Yasuhiro Ito, Kenichi Kamata, Satoshi Kanno Writer: Sogo Ishii Cast: Rena Komine, Tadanobu Asano, Kotomi Kyono, Kirina Mano, Tomoko Kurotani. Running Time: 90 Min Plot: Tomiko is a conductor in a rural bus driven
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