Tag: kentarôshimazu

My friend and colleague Peter K once wrote a paper on the question of cultural difference, and how that translates when one watches a film from a different country. Can we really understand all the nuances of films that come...

First off, the Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival is only in its second year but by golly would any established film festival be happy to have a superb poster like theirs. Golly, that is purdy. Second, it also boasts a...

As we enter the Fall season there are a number of festivals that we like to keep an eye on. The Lund International Fantastic Film Festival out of Lund, Sweden, just happens to be one of them. LIFFF happens to...

Good news if you happen to find yourself in Saskatoon between September 26th and 29th! The Dark Bridges Film Festival has (kind of) formally announced the first wave of titles in this year's lineup. Joining the previously announced Resolution and Bushido...

The Dark Bridges Film Festival out in Saskatoon, SK, unveiled the first two titles of their program yesterday. The programmers, of which I am one, are working hard to bring another strong lineup to this year's festival running September 26th...

Toramaru has spent the last year on a pilgrimage to obtain seven scrolls from seven masters of different martial art disciplines. Toramaru will fight masters of kung-fu, stick fighting, sword fighting, nunchaku, dagger, pistols and a very special weapon at...

Japanese splatter comedy master Iguchi Noboru enlisted High Kick Girl Takeda Rina for his latest effort, Dead Sushi, and fans will be soon be able to watch the action queen fight to keep dinner from having her for dinner in...

Noboru Iguchi's latest opus about revenge-seeking-man-eating sushi may not fall under the already infamous Sushi Typhoon label, but it bears many characteristics of the J-splatter studio's usual shtick: high-concept comedy that lampoons Japanese culture, manic scream acting from an ensemble...

With the world premiere of Noboru Iguchi's Dead Sushi just around the corner at the Fantasia Festival in Montreal, ScreenAnarchy has a pair of tasty new morsels for your consumption. First, we've added a quartet of stills to the gallery...

Dinner wants you for dinner.Cult director Noboru Igushi (Machine Girl, RoboGeisha) has enlisted High Kick Girl star Rina Takeda to play the lead in his latest offering, Dead Sushi. Takeda plays a girl who leaves home to escape the disapproving...

This announcement somehow managed to slip through the cracks here at ScreenAnarchy Towers, but news that a new Noboru Iguchi film will be having its world premiere at one of our very favourite film festivals simply cannot pass without comment...

Leave it to notorious cult director Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl, Karate-Robo Zaborgar) to conjure up the ridiculous idea of a killer sushi in his appropriately titled film Dead Sushi. As exploitatively promised in the trailer, you can expect to...