Almost a decade before he wrote and illustrated his magnum opus, Uzumaki (1998), gaining international fame, and stamping his trademark...

Pulp author Edogawa Rampo (real name Tarō Hirai) was a vital component in the development of modern Japanese literature, having penned...

Inglourious Basterds is, with all due respect to his mostly fantastic filmography, Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece. It is a perfect...

A truly innovative and unique filmmaker, Teruo ‘King of Cult’ Ishii’s prolific career encompassed almost 100 features, shorts, and...

Back in the DVD era, fans of director Seijun Suzuki could mostly count on The Criterion Collection to bring his films to the United States.

Before Hong Kong's mightiest film studio mastered the art of the kung fu film, Shaw Brothers hit box office gold with a very different...

Upon its release back in 1998, the common comparison for Sam Raimi's A Simple Plan was Joel and Ethan Coen's Academy Award-winning Fargo.

King Hu and Lau Kar-leung helped set the standard for Shaw Bros. martial arts movies, but no other director had a bigger impact on the...

For the first time in four years I was invited onto an episode of the Director's Club Podcast to chat with host Jim Laczkowski and guest...

The general pattern of Hollywood dystopian fiction throughout the decades has been to acknowledge, criticize, and/or satirize the current...