"Cruel Gun Story" added another title to Japanese Studio Nikkatsu's list of "Japanese Noir" set in the seedy and violent underworld..

"Kuroneko" (Eng: "Black Cat in a Bamboo Grove"), produced and distributed by Japan's Toho Studios..

Two films that fall under the blanket term of being "Anime", one French and the other Japanese..

In terms of atmosphere and tone it could have sprung from the hand of Alfred Hitchcock, with it's moodily lit interiors...

Controversial, daring, misogynistic, stylish and often deeply disturbing are the words that come to mind after watching the film.

Arrow's title is "100 Spook Stories" (Japanese: Yōkai Hyaku Monogatari) and it is variously titled depending upon the region..

Akira Kurosawa's 1948 film "Drunken Angel" marked the first of several collaborations with the actor Toshiro Mifune..

The success of "Daimajin" resulted in it being the first in a trilogy, which are all available to view on the Apple TV streamer..

Plot-wise the film follows the same general trajectory as the 1954 film - Godzilla rises from the ocean depths...

Criterion Channel includes a number of Godzilla / Giant Monster - or "Kaiju" - films, along with documentary extras..

Available to view on Amazon Prime, "The Invisible Man v The Human Fly", directed by Mitsuo Murayama and produced by the Daiei company...

Japanese director Seijun Suzuki's 1967 "Yakuza" film, "Branded to Kill" reunites him with the iconic surgically enhanced Joe Shishido..

Although I've been aware of Hayao Miyazaki's 1992 film "Porco Rosso" (Trans: "The Crimson Pig") since the early 90's..

I had doubts about posting a review of a film that is, on the face of it, a piece of soft-core pornography in the Japanese "Pink Film" genre

Giant monster films...you either love 'em or hate 'em, there doesn't appear to be a middle ground for them in terms of taste in cinema.

Japanese cinema of the 60's offers a vast selection of titles and subjects beyond the more familiar works known in the West

The plot combines elements of all these films with the added ingredient of fears about the nuclear age...

30-odd years on from the original 'Gamera" film that introduced Japanese and later, world, audiences, to the giant jet-propelled amphibian..

Based on a novel, Toyoda's film is, on the face of it, a domestic drama that could almost be dismissed as a soap opera

The success of Japanese "Kaiju", or giant monsters-on-the-loose films of the 1960's led to the emergence of two giants of the genre, Toho...