DVD: Jo Shishido     DVD:     Jo Shishido      The Most Terrible Time in My Life Masatoshi Nagase, Shirô Sano Kino Video, 2004 What a Gem!! Stumbled on this, and it was my favorite genre, Japanese Noir with a sense of humor. P.I. drives an American Metro from the 60's, and he's got a kid sister, and there's hard-boiled B-girls; its got everything, including kinda obscure referegddgnces (its' an old trick, ...             8 Man Mickey Curtis, Jo Shishido Image Entertainment, 1999 A surprisinly thoughtful movie I read the blurb on the back of the box and thought this sounded like a silly action film to enjoy on a rainy night, and in some ways it is, but there is also some thought put into the premise of the story. This dubbed vesion of the film is narrated by Chief Tanaka in ...             The Trap Masatoshi Nagase, Yui Natsukawa Kino International, 2005 The Final Film In The Maiku Hama Trilogy! Having just recently purchased the second and final films of the Maiku Hama trilogy; I would have to write that this one is the best and probably darkest of all the films. In fact, this episode is more of a horror-like thriller reminiscent of a Takashi Miike film. "The ...             Doomed Megalopolis (Special Edition) Shintarô Katsu, Kyusaku Shimada Adv Films, 2003 If you don't watch this your doomed Since animation can rarely shock, Doomed Megalopolis wisely chooses the alternate Horror route: it disturbs. Taking a cue from the The Exorcist, the story revolves mostly around Kato's repented efforts to pocesses Yukari and later her daughter Yukiko (who may or may ...             The Stairway to the Distant Past Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara Kino Video, 2005 The Second Film Of The Maiku Hama Trilogy! Well, 10 years after viewing the first episode of this humorous parody of detective Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase), I finally purchased the second and final episodes of the escapades of this very unconventional private detective from Japan. In the first episode, the ...             Doomed Megalopolis Shintarô Katsu, Kyusaku Shimada Adv Films, 2002 If you don't watch this your doomed Since animation can rarely shock, Doomed Megalopolis wisely chooses the alternate Horror route: it disturbs. Taking a cue from the The Exorcist, the story revolves mostly around Kato's repented efforts to pocesses Yukari and later her daughter Yukiko (who may or may ...             Bloody Territories Tsuneo Aoki, Rika Fujie Homevision, 2004 From cult Japanese action director Yasuharu Hasebe comes Bloody Territories , a stylishly colorful yakuza tale set against the backdrop of Tokyo?s gangster underworld. A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a campaign to take over Tokyo?s drug, ...             Gate of Flesh - Criterion Collection Yumiko Nogawa, Jo Shishido Criterion, 2005 The High-Definition transfer of this DVD makes all the visuals so much more appealing Back in 1964, as it is still to this day, Japan has always rated their movies for two specific audiences only. In America, we rate movies, R, PG, PG-13, and even G (although, I don't think anything qualifies as G anymore). In Japan, it's either Adult or General ...             Branded to Kill (Criterion Collection Spine #38) Jo Shishido, Mariko Ogawa Criterion, 1999 A monochrome dream Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima cranked up the concept of reality T.V a few notches in 1970 when he invited a few of his media pals along to a hijacking of a government building where he then performed seppuku (Ritual self disembowelling) as a protest against the ...             Youth of the Beast - Criterion Collection Yuriko Abe, Kensuke Akashi Criterion, 2005 Youth of the Beast An audacious early outing from cult Japanese director Seijun Suzuki and the Nikkatsu studio, "Beast" is a hip, pulp-gangster flick with a twisty revenge plot involving murder, dope, go-go dancers, and salacious double crosses. (One kingpin even has a gay brother who ...             Koroshi no rakuin Jo Shishido, Mariko Ogawa A monochrome dream Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima cranked up the concept of reality T.V a few notches in 1970 when he invited a few of his media pals along to a hijacking of a government building where he then performed seppuku (Ritual self disembowelling) as a protest against the ...          products you might be interested in   search for DVDs collection, criterion, megalopolis, stairway, terrible, territories      toavi.com    web we recommend A monochrome dream randomly chosen music: O Boto