Japan

Bullet Points: One-Percent Warrior

Action star Tak Sakaguchi continues his return to the world of action with a film that is sure to bring action fans to their feet. Tak’s frenetic style of fighting and the almost autobiographical nature of...

Bullet Points: 47 Ronin

Keanu Reeves can do no wrong right now. He made the crazy-awesome John Wick series, and then was spotted with his girlfriend who seems of normal age for a man of his years and people went...

Bullet Points: Renegade Ninjas

I remember a time when young Chad Cruise would wander around the video store for two hours just reading the backs of VHS tapes and trying to figure out what craziness might happen in them based...

Bullet Points: Meatball Machine (2005)

I have no idea what I’m getting into with some movies. That is even more evident when I watch a movie like Meatball Machine. Even the title brings with it so many questions. Is this a...

Bullet Points: Yakuza Apocalypse

Takashi Miike has made some weird ass movies over the years. I’ve personally seen several of them and have only heard of the extreme weirdness of others but Yakuza Apocalypse has piqued my interest because of...

Bullet Points: Blade of the Immortal

When director Takashi Miike sat down to finish off the last scenes of his 100th film, I wonder if he considered it to be one of the most exciting and entertaining samurai movies of the last...

Scene of the Week: Think Big in Japan

If there are two actors that surprise me every time with how entertaining their movies are it has to be David and Peter Paul, better known as The Barbarian Brothers. These two bodybuilders are probably better...