In 1966, King Hu’s Come Drink with Me set the quality precedent for Shaw Bros. wuxia movies and the popularity precedent for a wave of...

Before The Five Venoms (1978), before The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (1978), before even The Big Boss (1971), there was The One-Armed Sword...

In the decade before he made the groundbreaking Battles without Honor and Humanity series (1973-74), which led him to be recognized as a...

Completed in 1973 (edit: according to the commentary on this disc, it was actually completed in 1969 or ‘70), but not released outside of...

Post-WWII, Cold War angst produced an enduring legacy of American science fiction and horror films that helped audiences process their...

Akira Kurosawa’s 1961 pop samurai feature Yojimbo drew inspiration from American westerns and was also based loosely on Dashiell Hammet’s...

Following the glorious ascension of new generation directors, including Gareth Evans, Timo Tjahjanto, Kimo Stamboel, and Joko Anwar...

While not quite as popular as Ghost of Yotsuya, Botan Dōrō, aka The Peony Lantern, is a cornerstone of classic kaidan. It came to Japan...

The second film in Radiance Film’s Daiei Gothic collection is Tokuzo Tanaka’s The Snow Woman, which combines two popular kaidan tropes...

Japanese ghost stories – or kaidan (sometimes translated as kwaidan) – are rooted in an ancient pantheon of conventions, stock characters...