*BEWARE: HERE THERE BE SPOILERS* As the old saying goes, “If you thought you saw some crazy-ass titans busting shit up and eating people...

It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of live action manga adaptations (see the sidebar In Praise of Manga Movies , Asia Shock , p. 105). Br...

The good folks at Funimation were kind enough to send along a copy of the manga-to-anime horror fantasy Tokyo Ghoul (12 episode blu-ray ...

So the kid from Kick-Ass (Aaron Johnson) is all grown up and buffed and in the Navy, doing bomb stuff (he either diffuses them or blows t...

I’m a big fan of manga movies. I’ve reviewed a bunch of them in my books , calling them out as among the most outrageous and deliriously e...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is known primarily in the West for his horror films. Tokyo Sonata (2008) represents a departure; ghosts and serial kille...

Way back in 1985, German filmmaker Wim Wenders made a pilgrimage to Tokyo in search of Ozu. Not the physical personage, mind you (Yasujiro...