Tag: Japanese Cinema
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KINUYO TANAKA DIRECTS Blu-Ray Review: A Beguiling 6-Film Career
The Japanese actress’ transition behind the camera is explored in a new Eclipse series boxed set from The Criterion Collection
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DEMON POND 4K Review: Kabuki Is Better With Fish People
Masahiro Shinoda’s 1979 folk-horror apocalypse enters the Criterion Collection
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Blu-ray Review: I Can Think Of At Least One Thing Wrong With The Title Of Shindo Kaneto’s THE NAKED ISLAND
Simpsons jokes and expectations of foreign film exoticism notwithstanding, Shindo Kaneto’s 1960 film The Naked Island has arrived on Blu-ray by way of the Criterion Collection (spine #811). Shindo’s follow-up to that film, Onibaba, remains one of my favourite movies from the Criterion label, so I was eager to check out this title – which…