Crazy Thunder Road (Kuruizaki sanda rodo) first published by Little White Lies, as entry 147 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Sogo Ishii‘s Crazy Thunder Road (Kuruizaki sanda rodo) begins with a smoking volcano, and a fallen motorbike. These opening images in fact come from the film’s chronological end, and between them one can discern the…
Gojoe (Gojoe Reisenki) first published by Film4 Summary: In Sogo Ishii’s Gojoe, Daisuke Ryu and Tadanobu Asano play two legendary Japanese heroes who must become more than men to change history and fulfil their cosmic destiny. Review: Yoshitsune and Benkei are amongst Japan’s best known folk heroes. Yoshitsune was a twelfth-century prince of the Genji Clan who,…