DVD: Eiji Okada

DVD: Eiji Okada

DVD:

Eiji Okada

Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura

Warner Home Video, 2007

wow! I'd give it 10 stars.... Brilliant movie.
I am really puzzled as to how i could have possibly overlooked such a classic movie all these years. After a long time, i have seen a movie that has really overwhelmed me like this one. The Yakuza tells the story of Harry Kilmer (Robert Mitchum) a PI, who goes to ...

Robert Mitchum - The Signature Collection (Angel Face / Macao / The Sundowners / Home from the Hill / The ...

Robert Mitchum, Ken Takakura

Warner Home Video, 2007

Just received the set and i am VERY pleased...!
Hi Folks, the movies all look very good..and there are a nice group of bonus features from vintage featurettes to commentaries! On Macao...I particularly enjoyed the 30 minute interview with Jane Russell and Robert Mitchum that Robert Osborne conducted...very ...

Maiku Hama Private Eye Trilogy (The Most Terrible Time in My Life/The Stairway to the Distant Past/The Trap)
Masatoshi Nagase, Yui Natsukawa

Kino Video, 2005

The Stairway to the Distant Past

Masatoshi Nagase, Kiyotaka Nanbara

Kino Video, 2005

The Second Film Of The Maiku Hama Trilogy!
Well, 10 years after viewing the first episode of this humorous parody of detective Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase), I finally purchased the second and final episodes of the escapades of this very unconventional private detective from Japan. In the first episode, the ...

Zatoichi 25 - Zatoichi's Conspiracy

Shintarô Katsu, Yukiyo Toake

ANIMEIGO, 2004

#25: ANOTHER EXCELLENT ZATOICHI EPISODE
The 25th episode of Zatoichi finds the ever humble blind masseur on his way to his hometown. It has been years since Zatoichi has visited his family; and with a toss of a coin, the protagonist finds himself back to a different village that he left many years before. ...

The Ugly American

Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada

Universal Studios, 2003

Brando Loses The Cold War
The Ugly American was an interesting film when it first came out in 1963 but it seems even more fascinating now when viewed with the benefit of historical hindsight. A political drama with slight thriller overtones that tells the story of an over-confident and somewhat ...

Samurai Spy - Criterion Collection

Yasunori Irikawa, Jun Hamamura

Criterion, 2005

Masahiro Shinoda's 1965 samurai noir ninja spy film
"Ibun sarutobi sasuke" ("Samurai Spy") was made by director Mashario Shinoda in 1965 and the title is quite apt because this really is a spy movie in which the spies are samurai. To be accurate many of them are ronin, and most of them are Yagyu ninjas, but even though ...

Hiroshima Mon Amour - Criterion Collection

Emmanuelle Riva, Eiji Okada

Criterion, 2003

A French Masterpiece about Memory and Forgetting.
French film director Alain Resnais is best known for Night and Fog (1955), Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), and Last Year at Marienbad (L'année dernière à Marienbad) (1961). Based on a script by novelist Marguerite Duras (also known for The Lover), Hiroshima Mon Amour ...

Ghidorah: The Three-Headed Monster

Akihiko Hirata, Yuriko Hoshi

Classic Media, 2007

Ghidorah: how he was meant to be
Usually the first movie is the best one, and here it is true. Ghidorah was always my favorie film in the Godzilla series. We have some great monster battles, well detailed sets for destroying, and get to see Ghidorah with the meanness he's meant to have, only ...

Woman in the Dunes

Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida

Image Entertainment, 2000

Haunting Parable of Survival Among the Rational and the Primitive Amid Enveloping Sand Dunes
***THIS REVIEW IS FOR THE 2007 CRITERION COLLECTION DVD AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE "THREE FILMS BY HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA" BOX SET*** Like Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar, Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 existential allegory can be a challenge to sit through if you are ...