Japanese cinema Archives - Desperate Living

The King of the Monsters – the real thing, not some feeble imitation – is finally back!

Continuing our guide to the Nottingham festival’s highlights with a look at the most charming piece of time slip sci-fi that you’ll ever see.

Opening our preview of Mayhem Film Festival highlights with a look at an extraordinary and forgotten Japanese study in obsession and psychosis.

Yakuza action meets gothic horror in a 1970s Japanese movie classic.

The Reprobate talks to the man behind the latest boutique Blu-ray label specialising in overlooked, lesser-known movies.

The enhanced Mayhem screening of the Japanese classic is an interesting reinterpretation of the film.

The director of Onibaba and Kuroneko explores a bleak tale of isolation and quiet despair.

It’s lycanthrope vs lizard in this unreleased, unfinished clash of the monster movie titans.

Continuing our crime movie month with a look at Seijun Suzuki’s radical reinterpretation of the Japanese gangster movie.

Continuing our crime movie season with a look back at what is perhaps the most outrageously delirious Japanese underworld film ever made.

Remembering the great Japanese action star whose perpetually cool career spanned six decades.

Akira Kurosawa’s action movie masterpiece remains one of the most thrilling movie experiences ever made.