Longer version of Love & Peace (Rabu & Pisu) capsule published by Sight & Sound as part of coverage of the Cult programme at the London Film Festival 2015 This year’s cult programme included three Japanese cult directors, all of whom have, frankly, made better films than the ones here. Take Sion Sono, whose unruly, sui generis…
Terracotta Film Festival 2013 preview first published by Film4. Capsules of: Drug War; Postcards From The Zoo; See You Tomorrow, Everyone; Land of Hope; A Story of Yonosuke The fifth Terracotta Film Festival brings London viewers a Leslie Cheung/Anita Mui retrospective (Days of Being Wild, Happy Together, Rouge), a spotlight on Indonesia, the Terror Cotta…
Cold Fish (Tsumetai nettaigyo) first appeared in Sight & Sound, May 2011 Review: In the mid-Nineties, in Japan’s Saitama prefecture, exotic dog breeder Gen Sekine and his common-law wife Hiroko Kazama poisoned at least four people, and then sliced up the bodies. The couple would eventually hang for their crimes, while Yamazaki Nagayuki, an employee…