Rob's (mostly) Asian movie blog.
Last Updated on January 23, 2021 by rob
Two strangers who’ve met on the internet, a young computer expert nicknamed ‘Gun’ (Kazuma Suzuki) and an ageing locksmith known as ‘Key’ (Kenichi Hagiwara), plan to rob the office safe of a businessman with gangster connections. The robbery goes fine but on the way out the lift carrying our heroes gets stuck … Read the rest
Last Updated on January 23, 2021 by rob
Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), a US Navy SEAL, finds himself torn between two families; his wife Taya (Sienna Miller) who finds herself raising their son and daughter alone and the battlefield comrades who rely on his shooting skills to protect them from a legendary enemy sniper known as Mustafa during four gruelling … Read the rest
Last Updated on January 21, 2021 by rob
Two women named Butterfly and Chow (Maggie Shiu and Teresa Mo) are accidentally caught up in a gang murder so try to throw off the cops by blaming the incident on a fictional 1960’s Hong Kong movie heroine known as Black Rose. But the pair are kidnapped by two of Black Rose’s … Read the rest
Last Updated on January 23, 2021 by rob
In dangerous winter weather an obsessive rally driver named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) narrowly avoids death after a disastrous shunt during the Monte Carlo race. After recovery Godai sets his sights on the big African rally in which he’ll compete with his old adversary and best friend Pierre (Alain Cuny). But as Godai … Read the rest
Last Updated on January 24, 2021 by rob
Long-standing enmities between rival martial arts clans over an ultra-lethal kung-fu move known as Buddha’s Palm, a secret known only to a blind hermit who has sealed himself inside a cave for 20 years with a friendly dragon for company, come to a head when the hermit adopts a young man as … Read the rest
Last Updated on January 21, 2021 by rob
Alaskan hunter Tetsuya (Tetsuya Watari) returns to Japan to discover that his sister has killed herself after being raped by a gang of hoodlums. After rescuing politician’s daughter Kyoko (Meiko Fujimoto) from a vicious motorcycle gang terrorising the locals around a US airbase he realizes these are the same scum responsible for … Read the rest
Last Updated on January 24, 2021 by rob
To the accompaniment of an instantly memorable score an attractive middle-aged woman (Keiko Kishi) sits alone on a park bench watching the world go by – children at play, couples arm in arm strolling past. At the end of the film we’ll come back to this scene and understand its significance but … Read the rest
Last Updated on June 13, 2021 by rob
One rainy night a wimpy pastry chef named Ken (Yutaka Hayashi) reluctantly gives fellow restaurant worker – the dominant Yuri (Tamaki Katsura) – a lift home. But when the pair witness the gruesome death of a woman they’d stopped to help they find themselves sexually aroused by the accident. But what begins … Read the rest
Last Updated on January 23, 2021 by rob
Popular TV star Daisaku (Yujiro Ishihara), frustrated with his shallow lifestyle, agrees to drive a knackered old jeep 800 miles across country to a remote village to deliver it to the boyfriend of a woman whose love affair with her partner has been conducted entirely by letter. Pursued by his girlfriend/secretary Noriko … Read the rest
Last Updated on January 22, 2021 by rob
A young man named Hiroshi (Tadanobu Asano) loses his memory in a car crash that kills his girlfriend Ryoko (Nami Tsukamoto). After recovery he enrols at medical school only to discover that the female body he’s dissecting in the mortuary is… well, you can probably guess. As Hiroshi digs into Ryoko’s corpse … Read the rest
