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It’s another film by Hirokazu Kore-eda! This time, Perry is joined by podcaster Sam Stokes to discuss the director’s latest film, Monster. With different perspectives, it’s an enl…
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Monster (怪物, Hirokazu Koreeda, 2023)
Gossip and petty prejudice give rise to a series of “misunderstandings” in Koreeda’s probing drama.
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Monster 怪物 (2023) Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda [Chicago International Film Festival 2023]
Monster 怪物 (2023), by director Hirokazu Kore-eda, is a Rashomon-like story about how misapprehension can cause problems and hide people’s suffering. [Chicago International Film Festival 2023]…
Lumberjack the Monster (怪物の木こり, Takashi Miike, 2023)
Could being a psychopath actually be better? It might be an attractive thought for some, the absolute freedom of living without emotional or moral constraint. Emotion is after…
Curse of the Blood (怪談残酷物語, Kazuo Hase, 1968)
Vengeful ghosts in Japanese cinema usually originate from some kind of injustice. Generally, they’ve met a bad end through no real fault of their own while the person…
Episode 98 - Oreshura
This week, Shaun takes us back to middle-school and throws a fair amount of shade at Dylan when he shows us 2013's rom-com harem Ore no Kanojo to…
Monster (2023) review
Kore-eda succeeds in delivering an utterly engaging narrative about the fundamental misunderstanding that underpins our fabrication of our truth.
Episode 98 - The Power
We go from a series set in the UK to another series set in the UK. Except that this one is actually a manga and anime series. We…
Monster (2023) – Movie Review
I won’t say that Koreeda Hirokazu is a must-see director for me. I honestly didn’t connect the dots between some of my favorite films, and his screenwriting/directorial talents…
夏物語
夏物語、 川上 未映子、文藝春秋、 2019 Summer Story, Mieko Kawakami, Bungeishunju, 2019 [Since I first read this book, an English translation has been published by Europa Press as Breasts and…
WE 12 (12怪盜, Berry Ho Kwok-man, 2023)
Phenomenally popular Cantopop boyband Mirror have been dominating the Hong Kong box office lately with several of the guys playing regular roles in movies not particularly designed as…
Episode 98 - Dr. Lionel Babicz (Sydney)
In this episode, Dr. Babicz makes a compelling case for dating the start of "Modern Japan" to February 11, 1889, the date when the Meiji Constitution was promulgated,…
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Episode 98 – The Table Of Tears
The podcast is back and this time we are taking a small detour from manga. Colton, from Life Lesson, returns to talk with us about the fifth Gintama…
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Episode #79 (S10E8) – Kwaidan [怪談] (1965)
Podcaster Mike Lund visits the show to discuss Kwaidan, an adaptation of four of Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese ghost stories. We discuss our favorite stories from this anthology, some…
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The 12 Day Tale of the Monster that Died in 8 (8日で死んだ怪獣の12日の物語, Shunji Iwai, 2020) [Fantasia 2021]
Takumi Saito plays a version of himself raising “capsule kaiju” as means of combatting Covid helplessness in Iwai’s whimsical pandemic drama
Episode 98, "The Professional Podcast" (Part One)
On the first part of this two part episode of the One Piece Podcast we have Firecrouch, Funkatron, Jason “EvilGamerX” and Steve Yurko on to talk about the…
Episode 98, "The Professional Podcast" (Part One)
On the first part of this two part episode of the One Piece Podcast we have Firecrouch, Funkatron, Jason “EvilGamerX” and Steve Yurko on to talk about the…
Immersion (忌怪島／きかいじま, Takashi Shimizu, 2023)
An attempt to recreate the “real” in the “virtual” causes a rupture between this world and another in Takashi Shimizu’s high tech horror.
Popcorn Pulse 98: Accounting
We had a plan for this. Thanks to the kind of ineptitude which is the hallmark of the show, we completely failed to do the movie we set…
The GLORIO Chat Episode 98: Lupin Versus Columbo
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Mononoke / モノノ怪 by Ninagawa Yaeko
Once again, I am shamefully coming to you with a manga recommendation based on an anime. I had originally intended this blog… well, to be a podcast, but…
Episode 33: Monster Musume
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Anime Review #98: Death Note
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Eat-Man / Eat-Man ’98
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Episode # 98 – Interview with Justin and David of BOOMSLANK
We’re finally back after a month+ hiatus. Don’t worry, things may have slowed, but they certainly haven’t stopped. We’re hoping to get back to a more regular release…
Kitanhana Monogatari (綺譚花物語)
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing a book on Yuri history in Taiwan by Baihe novelist 楊雙子 Yáng Shuāngzǐ. Today I am reviewing the…
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Kizumonogatari -Koyomi Vamp- (傷物語 -こよみヴァンプ-, Tatsuya Oishi, 2023) [Fantasia 2024]
A young man walks into an empty subway station already ominously strewn with blood and finds there the corpse of a woman shorn of her limbs. The corpse…
Monster
The ultimate villain in all the history of anime! Feel free to argue with me on that, but I know a lot of people will agree with me.…
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Episode #82 (S11E2) – Dogora [宇宙大怪獣ドゴラ] (1964)
Podcaster and screenwriter Nick Chandler joins Perry to discuss Dogora, an interesting kaiju film also directed by the great Ishiro Honda. One part monster film, one part heist…
#98 Chagecha (Ft. Amber from Skulltenders)
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