Um, well, I can definitely say that 1964′s Onibaba isn’t at all what I was expecting. And that’s a good thing to be sure. For 1964, this is a seriously twisted, frank, raw, provocative, and mesmerizing movie. Set sometime in Japan’s war torn medieval period, we find an old woman (Nobuko Otawa) and her daughter-in-law [...]
[This post is part of the Halloween 2009 theme. Don't worry, I'll cover more non-horror movies after the 31st!] US Title: Ringu 0 Japanese Title: リング ０： バースデイ I’m sure by now you’ve either seen, or heard of, the big hit J-horror movie, “The Ring.” Either the US Remake, or the original Japanese film “Ringu” [...]
US Title: Dark Water Japanese Title: ほの暗い水のそこから (“From the Murky Water”) One of the “canonical” J-horror stories, and still one of the creepiest, Dark Water pits the ghost of a young girl against a single mother and her young daughter, with unpleasant results. Recently divorced mother Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) and her daughter Ikuko (Rio [...]
