I read somewhere the Japanese started producing anime because there was no way to combat live action American imports. With its narration and lame plotting (it somehow isn’t epical–maybe because Tomb of Dracula was produced for television, complete with convenient commercial breaks), it’s an awful way spend ninety minutes. Unfortunately the entire cast isn’t credited, […]
Entries Tagged as 'Toei Inc'
The Tomb of Dracula (1980, Okazaki Minoru)
September 7th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Bram Stoker· Gene Colan· Marv Wolfman· Okazaki Minoru· Toei Inc· Yamazaki Tadaaki· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Battle Royale (2000, Fukasaku Kinji), the director’s cut
August 9th, 2009 · No Comments
Battle Royale has to be seen to be believed. It shouldn’t work–a film about teenagers killing each other (under a government mandated law) played as a sweeping melodrama, but it does. It’s somehow brilliant, all thanks to director Fukasaku. The action takes place on this tropical island and Fukasaku fills it with beautiful shots and […]
Tagged: Fukasaku Kenta· Fukasaku Kinji· Takami Koushun· Toei Inc· ★★★
Sky High (2003, Kitamura Ryuhei)
August 7th, 2007 · No Comments
Sky High has got to be one of the stupider movies I’ve ever seen. There are other factors contributing to it being bad, as stupidity doesn’t necessarily undo a film, but it’s real stupid. Shockingly, the screenwriter worked on Kitamura’s perfectly fine Azumi. Sky High’s a prequel to a TV series, which is an adaptation […]
Tagged: Kiriyama Isao· Kitamura Ryuhei· Takahasi Tsutomo· Toei Inc· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Golgo 13: The Kowloon Assignment (1977, Noda Yukio)
May 1st, 2006 · No Comments
Certain films I don’t even bother asking my fiancée if she wants to watch. Golgo 13 was obviously one of them. Sonny Chiba as an invincible hitman, bopping around the hip and neon 1970s Hong Kong… I figured she wouldn’t mind sitting it out. I think I might have known Golgo 13 started as a […]
Tagged: Matsumoto Takeshi· Nakajima Nobuaki· Noda Yukio· Saitô Takao· Sonny Chiba· Toei Inc· ★★
Go (2001, Yukisada Isao)
January 6th, 2006 · No Comments
Go opens with an unbelievable shot. Pimples. It opens with the bad skin of the protagonist’s forehead. Once my initial reaction–ick–was over, I started watchingGo wrap itself into a drug-free, fighting-heavy Trainspotting homage. Then it started reminding me of True Romance, if only because the theme sort of sounds like it (the one from Badlands). […]
Tagged: Kaneshiro Kazuki· Kudô Kankurô· Toei Inc· Yukisada Isao· ★★★



