Village Of Eight Gravestones (Yoshitara Nomura, Japan, 1977)

Following the death of his grandfather a young airport worker named Tatsuya (Kenichi Hagiwara) returns to his family home in a remote valley and discovers that a curse has been placed on the village by the leader of a band of samurai warriors who were brutally murdered there 400 years earlier. As the bodies begin to pile up fearful villagers … Read the rest

Gun and Key (Satoshi Isaka, Japan, 2001)

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 between floors. As the hours pass and the … Read the rest