Hiroshi Abe – Stream On Demand

‘Godzilla 2000’ – The lizard king returns on Hulu

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, family friendly, giant monsters, Halloween, Hulu, International Cinema, Science Fiction, SVOD 10/03/2023 Sean Axmaker

The first film in the third generation of Japanese ‘Godzilla’ movies is a direct sequel to the 1954 original and a riposte to Roland Emmerich’s misbegotten 1998 American remake.

‘Chocolate’ – the next Thai Warrior on Hulu

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, Hulu, International Cinema, martial arts, SVOD 03/16/2023 Sean Axmaker

JeeJa Yanin plays a teenage martial arts dynamo in the action-paced thriller from ‘Ong-Bak’ director Prachya Pinkaew.

‘Still Walking’ – the family endures on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Cinema, SVOD 11/06/2017 Sean Axmaker

Hirokazu Kore-eda directs this gentle but powerful family drama about absence, expectations, disappointments and acceptance.

Hiroshi Abe and Yôko Maki star in the family drama by Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-Eda

‘After the Storm’ on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Comedy, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, SVOD 09/13/2017 Sean Axmaker

Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-Eda directs the most perceptive and compassionate films about the difficult relations that put strains on families and the generosity and understanding that helps overcome those difficulties. After the Storm (Japan, 2017) is one of his most understated family dramas, a lovely, low-key film about divorce and disappointment that, like the title […]