A surreal fairytale featuring the world’s first communist princess, a bizarre fish and a malevolent dwarf that haunted the nightmares of generations of children from the mid-’60s onwards, The Singing Ringing Tree is presented here in high definition for the first time. To win the love of a beautiful but arrogant princess,…
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Jong-ho Huh gives me everything I could want from a 1500s creature feature’ ★★★★ Flickering Myth ‘Imagine Bong Joon Ho’s The Host set in the 16th century’ Thrillist A creature feature merging martial arts madness with fantastic folklore, Monstrum is brimming with warrior action, cinematic beauty – and of course – a giant furry…
2050 ** China / USA 2018 Dir: Princeton Holt. 104 mins Operating out of 666 Main Street (so you know it’s legit), “Butterfly Chasers” is a future means of customising your own lover, providing complete subordinates to specification that are then available to own, lease or rent. Programmed to do…
The Daimajin Trilogy saw Daiei’s Kyoto studios bringing its own iconic movie monster to life in a unique but short-lived series that transplants the Golem legend to Japan’s Warring States period of the late-16th century. Synopsis: In Daimajin, directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda (Yokai Monsters, Zatoichi on the Road), the…
VERSUS *** Japan 2000 Dir: Ryûhei Kitamura. 119 mins Legend has it that our world contains 666 portals to the ‘other side’ – the next dimension – and in Japan there is the 444th portal, which lies hidden in the Forest of Resurrection, where the whole of this movie takes…