Rampo Noir (2005)
Sep 23, 2007Japanese Horror Anthology
Anthology of tales adapted from Japanese horror writer Edogawa Rampo. The various directors push the stories into an admirably perverse and disturbed space
Ryuhei Matsuda
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006)
Nov 27, 2012Prison Murder Mystery with Surreal SF Elements
This is one of Takashi Miike's most incomprehensible films - what appears to be a murder mystery and gay love story set in a prison, along with random SF elements
Nightmare Detective (2006)
Oct 27, 2010Dream Killer
A clearly more commercial film from cult Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto of Tetsuo: The Iron Man fame. This draws influence from Ring but this lacks much of the obsessive drive of Tsukamoto's other films
Nightmare Detective 2 (2008)
Jan 10, 2019Dream Detective
Nightmare Detective was Shinya Tsukamoto's venture into the dreamscape theme of works like The Cell and the subsequent Inception. Many regard this sequel as a superior work.
Before We Vanish (2017)
Jan 27, 2020Japanese Alien Invasion Film
Japan's Kiyoshi Kurosawa is known for his intensely uncanny and bafflingly cryptic horror films. Here he makes an alien invasion film, although a minimalist and very different one that proves quite fascinating