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Japan Cinema

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Reviews of great asian influenced films. Updated every weekday morning.

Added on: May 21st, 2009
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Cello
Listed in: Movie Industry and Awards Cinema
Tags: Film Cinema movies anime asian movie reviews

Recent Posts

Escaflowne: The Movie – Review

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 08:06 in japan, Film, high school, anime, Tv Series, animation, movie review, anime reviews, blu-ray, cowboy bebop, escaflowne, mechs

For those of you who are not familiar with the movie, it is not a sequel or a prequel. It is more of an alternate telling of the Escaflowne story. Hitomi, a young high school student has lost her interest in life. She fears things will never change,...
Five Deadly Venoms – Review

Posted on Friday November 6th, 2009 at 08:37 in Film, Cinema, martial arts, television, asian, movie reviews, hong kong, movie review, cult, kung fu, rza, shaw brothers

Appropriately, The Five Deadly Venoms is an awesome old-school kung fu movie, easily the best such film I’ve reviewed here. Five martial arts masters whose identities are unknown have emerged from the Five Venoms house, each proficient in a partic...
The Children of Huang Shi – Review

Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 08:25 in movie, kids, japan, Film, war, Chinese, movie reviews, movie review, violence, chinese history, chow yun fat, children of huang shi

The Children of Huang Shi tells the true story of George Hogg who is a young English reporter in China during the Japanese occupation of 1937. Eventually, he and another journalist manage to infiltrate into an area where they are not welcome disgu...
Vexille – Review

Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 09:23 in japan, Film, action, anime, japanese, animation, space, robots, movie review, anime reviews, CGI, 3-d

The story kicks off in the United States, as an elite commando unit dubbed SWORD launches a surprise attack on a powerful Nipponese conglomerate known as Daiwa Heavy Industries. With the urging of Daiwa Heavy Industries, the world’s leading su...
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor – Review

Posted on Tuesday November 3rd, 2009 at 07:33 in movie, china, Film, action, Adventure, asian, history, movie review, shanghai, CGI, jet li, emperor

Rick and Evelyn O’Connell come out of retirement in 1946 to travel to Shanghai, where they are tricked into helping resurrect an evil 2,000 year old emperor played by Jet Li. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor takes us on a guided tour of the c...
Mad Detective – Review

Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 10:33 in movie, Film, Mystery, Police, asian, crime, movie reviews, drama, movie review, cops, violence, guns

The hot streak continues for Johnnie To. This director’s movies have probably shown up the most on my site than any other, and for good reason. A missing police pistol is connected to a series of recent heists and murders. Mad Detective is abo...