Tag: masanobuandô

The last year has been great for Kitano Takeshi fans. While the director's recent output hasn't exactly set the world on fire outside of his two Outrage films, home video collectors have encountered a wealth of treasures as his early...

Our friends at Third WIndow Films have given us the opportunity to exclusively announce the remainder of their planned 2016 releases. Through this point in the year Third Window has put out classics from Kitano Takeshi along with the wonderful...

A riveting piece of cinema that plays like a superb combination of Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs and Kitano 'Beat' Takeshi films circa 1993, Ishii Takashi's unrelentingly violent, socially conscious 1995 neo-noir thriller Gonin (sometimes translated as The Five) undeniably served as...

Takashi Miike still stands as one of my all-time favorite directors, even though the quality of his recent output has somewhat diminished. It isn't easy to pick one film from his vast oeuvre that stands out as his absolute best,...

Even though I like my share of stylish Eastern martial arts period pieces from time to time, it's not exactly the most dashing or innovative genre one can imagine. Sure the cinematography improves and the fight choreography gets 1-upped all...

The lives of three outcasts sort of converge in an effort to explain their seemingly unrelated pasts and the connection they all have with a mysteriously powerful weapon.   The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman (BCS for the purposes...

THE BUTCHER, THE CHEF AND THE SWORDSMAN should be a film to make me very happy. I spend a lot of my column inches here at ScreenAnarchy complaining about the current state of Chinese Cinema, its overwhelming predilection towards...

When a fat, vulgar and none-too-bright butcher glimpses the woman of his dreams, the lovely Mei who conjures visions of peach blossoms and naughty sex, there is nothing that is going to stop him from making her his own,...

Kung fu comedy is coming back to Toronto and now is the time to put aside any thought of any previous trailers you may have seen for Wuershan's The Butcher, The Chef And The Swordsman. Those lo-res, Chinese mainland videos...