Author: pvhaecke

Samurai Fury (2025) review

Yu Irie delivers a samurai narrative that, while not able to match the masterpieces of the genre, offers everything fans have come to expect from the genre.

A Love Letter From Yesterday (2024) review

The emotional drama is extremely flat – and even the sexual encounters, despite being well-acted by the female cast, cannot infuse life into the dried-up bed of the film’s emotional river.          

Blazing Fists (2025) review

Miike delivers a drama of hope, a narrative that shows, in a satisfying manner, that a subject can materialize himelf within in the ring and by punching and kicking the demeaning discourses concerning criminality within the Japanese Other into shreds.  

Dollhouse (2025) review

Yaguchi’s horror will please audiences new to the J-horror genre as well as long-time fans of the genre.

Under Ninja (2025) review

Great mindless fun, perfect to wash away the stress that has infiltrated one’s body during the week.

Faceless (2024) review

A great thriller that beautifully shows the destructive role the image can play within the societal field.

Lumberjack the Monster (2023) review

A great example of a filmic experience that is helmed by a director that is uninvested in the material and, consequently, merely does his bare minimum

Exit 8 (2025) review

Genki Kawamura delivers an engaging and visually arresting psychological horror narrative that takes the concept of liminality to its anthropological origin.