Though ridiculously prolific director Takashi Miike is most often remembered for his gory horror films—such as Audition (1999) and Ichi the Killer (2001)—he’s made far weirder films throughout a career that has spanned nearly three decades and explored a range ...

One of the best things about Takashi Miike’s Ôdishon (Audition, 1999), is that it takes the basic premise of something that does not outwardly feel like a horror film and slowly turns it into one. The set-up feels like that of a ...

Battle Royale is an extraordinary effort, regardless of the medium. First appearing as a 1999 novel, author Koushun Takami’s work was quickly adapted into a graphic novel of the same name, with director Kinji Fukasaku following suit within the year ...

The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies London are all set to put on another amazing talk this week (Thursday 16th February, 2017), this time hosted by Asian genre expert Jasper Sharp. Sharp’s talk Lost Treasures of Japanese Genre Filmmaking promises to provide ...

The Japanese Film Festival in Australia, which is presented by The Japan Foundation, Sydney, always includes a few genre films for horror lovers. This year saw the 20th instalment of the event, which toured Australia from 14 October to 4 December 2016, ...

Aokigahara is located in the Yamanashi Prefecture of Japan, which lies within the Chūbu region on the main island of Honsu. In Japan, the forest is referred to as Aokigahara-jukai or the ‘Sea of Trees’.  As part of the Minamitsuru ...

Takashi Miike is one of the most prolific filmmakers working today. Barreling close to 100 releases in his 55 years, Miike has found a way to work his vision into a wealth of diverse genres. While his 1999 cerebral horror ...

Does Throne of Blood—pantheon director Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth—qualify as a genuine horror movie? Set in a perpetually fogbound and windswept landscape on the slopes of Japan’s Mount Fuji, Throne of Blood is the nearest thing ...

With Eureka Entertainment’s release of Kaneto Shindo’s ONIBABA (1964) on blu-ray, Steve Head, David Kleiler, and Brett Michel discuss this genre-bending film, which is part horror film, part myth, part samurai epic, part erotic thriller, and part historical drama.