Tag: Japan

Godzilla Minus Zero (2026) – Review

Apologies for the rather crass metaphor, but in 2023, Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus One hit cinemas like a nuclear blast. Not only did robust box

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Human Vapor – Season 1, Episode 8: Wish (2026) – Review

I have to say, while my decision to review Human Vapor was one part random to two parts connection to Ishirō Honda, I’ve actually become

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Human Vapor – Season 1, Episode 7: Ellie My Love (2026) – Review

It seems that I was a little premature in my earlier assertion that Human Vapor have finally coughed up the majority of its secrets, as

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Human Vapor – Season 1, Episode 6: Mufu (2026) – Review

The previous episode of Human Vapor hit us with more than it’s fair share of revelations, such as identity of its titular killer, the twist

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Human Vapor – Season 1, Episode 5: Bunko Ramen (2026) – Review

As we drift into the second half of the season, we find that with all the new characters and all the startling revelations we’ve recently

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Human Vapor – Season 1, Episode 4: Terror Zone (2026) – Review

As we hit the midway point of Toho and Netflix’s sci-fi mystery, we find something of sudden shift in our regularly scheduled programming that finds

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Human Vapor – Season 1, Episode 3: The Journal (2026) – Review

If the first episode of Shinzo Katayama and Yeon Sang-ho’s modern retelling of Ishirō Honda’s The Human Vapor set the scene with the titular character

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Human Vapor – Season 1, Episode 2: Informant (2026) – Review

As we seep into the second installment of Toho and Netflix’s sci-fi mystery (or should that be “mist-tery”? – no, definitely mystery. Sorry about that),

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Human Vapor – Season 1, Episode 1: The Interview (2026) – Review

Considering how much influence Ishirō Honda has had on popular culture, I’m frankly amazed that more of his stuff hasn’t been updated or adapted for

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Only Yesterday (1991) – Review

Just because your motion picture is made up of thousands upon thousands of individually hand-drawn pictures, it doesn’t mean you can’t be subtle with the

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Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) – Review

By the end of the 80s, Studio Ghibli was cooking, creatively speaking, but was still finding it tough to get the appropriate amount of traction

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Grave Of The Fireflies (1988) – Review

In the realms of animated history, it’s become common knowledge that Pixar has an unerring ability to leech salty tears from from even the most

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Exit 8 (2025) – Review

I guess it’s time for us to recognise that a video game adaptation no longer has to mean watching filmmakers desperately trying to cram the

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Castle In The Sky (1986) – Review

You’d think that when starting a brand new animation house, you’d want to come up with something as fiercely original as you possibly could to

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Porco Rosso (1992) – Review

If I’m being totally honest, I didn’t really appreciate the full spectrum of animation coming out of Japan, back in the younger years. While I

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Ringu 0 (2000) – Review

How vital are origin stories, really? If you’re a superhero I’d argue that they’re pretty damn important unless you’re understandably bored of seeing Uncle Ben

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Ringu 2 (1999) – Review

The history of the original Ring franchise proves to be as strange and convoluted as thar of lank-haired, ghostly antagonist, Sadako herself. We’ve already what

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Spiral (1998) – Review

Sequels tend to be fairly straightforward affairs, right? Follow up an earlier film with a continuing storyline that delivers all the things you liked about

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Ringu (1998) – Review

Picture the scene. The horror genre is once again growing stale as the recent resurgence of slasher movies is already burning out. It’s obviously that

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Redline (2009) – Review

The beauty of Anime is that you can present a world effortlessly more exagerated than the ones we usually see in live action. Any sense

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