Ping Pong (2002) How in the hell can you make a decent, funny movie about ping pong? Well, they’ve done it. Ping Pong chronicles the exploits of two table tennis masters: The timid and reserved “Smile” Tsukimoto” (Arata) and the over-the-top “Peco” Hoshino (Yosuke Kubozuka) as they battle through life and their high school ping [...]
Death Note L: Change the World (2008) Sigh, OK, so I didn’t do my homework on this one when I put it at the top of the old Netflix Queue…. I’ve never seen any of the other pieces of the Death Note franchise, no Anime, not the TV series, not the other movies… neither have [...]
US Title: Big Man Japan Japanese Title: 大日本人 (lit. “Big Japanese Person”) If I have to pick one word to describe Big Man Japan, its “weird.” Another would be “funny”. Yet another would be “AWESOME!” I guess you could say this is kinda-sorta the Japanese version of “Hancock.” Although without the crappy attitude and Wil [...]
