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Locked-Down Cinema
Film reviews of all the films I should have seen but didn't...
What do you do if you receive a Christmas present that is a membership to the British Film Institute when there's a pandemic on...?
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Watch out!...It's "The Green Slime" !!, Dir: Kinji Fukasaku, 1968
Oh, "The Green Slime" is a film I've been searching for high and low on various streamers without much success..
Ravi Swami
Sep 23, 20244 min read
"Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan", Dir: Chor Yuen, 1972
Once you get past the salacious details, at the core of the plot is a story about young women , usually from poor rural communities...
Ravi Swami
Dec 11, 20234 min read
"Goke - The Body Snatcher From Hell", Dir: Hajime Sato, 1968
Hajime Sato's 1968 chiller "Goke - The Body Snatcher From Hell" or "Vampire Gokemidoro" must surely be one of the oddest additions to...
Ravi Swami
Oct 7, 20233 min read
"Ramayana - The Legend of Prince Rama", Dir: Yugo Sako, Ram Mohan, Koichi Sasaki, 1992
The long-awaited 4K remaster and restoration of the "Ramayana - The Legend of Prince Rama", animated feature film (123 min)...
Ravi Swami
Jun 7, 20234 min read
The War In Space, Dir: Jun Fukuda, 1977
If I were to sum up this film in a single line it would go something like "Space Romans from Venus attack the Earth...
Ravi Swami
Jul 27, 20223 min read
"Princess From The Moon", Dir: Kon Ichikawa, 1987
The plot of the film is based on "The Tale of The Bamboo Cutter", a widely-known and popular tale purportedly based on real events...
Ravi Swami
Jul 1, 20225 min read
"Cruel Gun Story", Dir: Takumi Furukawa, 1964
"Cruel Gun Story" added another title to Japanese Studio Nikkatsu's list of "Japanese Noir" set in the seedy and violent underworld..
Ravi Swami
May 16, 20223 min read
"Bloodstone", Dir: Dwight H. Little, 1988
As a Western "cross-over" film, in this case co-produced by former tennis champion Ashok Amritraj and written by Nico Mastorakis..
Ravi Swami
May 8, 20225 min read
"The Housemaid", Dir: Kim Ki-Young, 1960
Kim Ki-Young's 1960 film "The Housemaid" is cited by Bong Joon-Ho as being a major influence on the theme and tone of "Parasite"..
Ravi Swami
Apr 28, 20227 min read
"Kuroneko", Dir: Kaneto Shindo, 1968
"Kuroneko" (Eng: "Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove"), produced and distributed by Japan's Toho Studios..
Ravi Swami
Feb 27, 20226 min read
"Minnal Murali", Dir: Basil Joseph, 2021
"Minnal Murali" (Eng: "Lightning Murali") premiered this December on Netflix is a Malayalam language superhero film from South India..
Ravi Swami
Dec 29, 20219 min read
"Peking Man", Dir: Meng Hua Ho, 1977
As oddities go, you can't get odder than "Peking Man" ("The Mighty Peking Man" / "Goliathon" in the U.S) from the renowned Shaw Bros studio.
Ravi Swami
Dec 20, 20215 min read
"100 Spook Stories / 100 Monsters", Dir: Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968
Arrow's title is "100 Spook Stories" (Japanese: Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari) and it is variously titled depending upon the region..
Ravi Swami
Oct 22, 20213 min read
"Shin Godzilla", Dir: Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi, 2016
Plot-wise the film follows the same general trajectory as the 1954 film - Godzilla rises from the ocean depths...
Ravi Swami
Jul 29, 20214 min read
"Big Trouble In Little China", Dir: John Carpenter, 1986
John Carpenter's 1986 film "Big Trouble In Little China" falls into that latter category of "seen before, I'll watch it again"...
Ravi Swami
Jul 5, 20213 min read
"The Invisible Man v The Human Fly", Dir: Mitsuo Murayama, 1957
Available to view on Amazon Prime, "The Invisible Man v The Human Fly", directed by Mitsuo Murayama and produced by the Daiei company...
Ravi Swami
May 24, 20215 min read
"The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension", Dir: W.D Richter, 1984
"Buckaroo Banzai" is definitely very odd - the titular character played by Peter Weller is of mixed American Japanese heritage..
Ravi Swami
May 4, 20216 min read
"Branded To Kill", Dir: Seijun Suzuki, 1967
Japanese director Seijun Suzuki's 1967 "Yakuza" film, "Branded to Kill" reunites him with the iconic surgically enhanced Joe Shishido..
Ravi Swami
Apr 23, 20214 min read
"Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain", Dir:Tsui Hark, 1983
"Zu Warriors From The Magic Mountain", directed by Tsui Hark has been on my watchlist for some time..
Ravi Swami
Feb 10, 20213 min read
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