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Takeshi Kitano in 'Battle Royale,' directed by Kinji Fukasaku.

‘Battle Royale’ – The original ‘Hunger Games’ on Criterion Channel and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, high school, Hoopla, horror, International Cinema, Kanopy, SVOD, thriller 09/05/202309/05/2023 Sean Axmaker

Kinji Fukasaku, the madman of Japanese yakuza cinema, directs this gleefully gruesome splatter satire of teenage nihilism, adult paranoia, and social sadism.

Takeshi Kitano directs and stars in "Violent Cop"

‘Violent Cop’ and ‘Boiling Point’ – The volatile Takeshi Kitano free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, DVD, International Cinema, SVOD 08/28/202308/28/2023 Sean Axmaker

The Japanese comedian reinvented himself as a brutal gangster and as a director of maverick crime dramas with these two films set in the Japanese underworld.

Tatsuya Nakadai in the Akira Kurosawa epic

Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ran’ on Prime Video

!Featured, Academy Award, Amazon Prime Video, BAFTA winner, Blu-ray, DVD, Essential Viewing, historical, International Cinema, Shakespeare, SVOD, war 08/08/202308/08/2023 Sean Axmaker

Kurosawa’s magesterial masterpiece about an aging warlord reworks Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ through the lens of a true story from sixteenth century Japan.

‘Lady Snowblood’ – vengeance is hers on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, International Classics, martial arts, Max, SVOD, thriller 07/11/202307/11/2023 Sean Axmaker

Kaji Meiko stars in this visually exquisite thriller of a ferocious beauty raised to take revenge on a quartet of criminals. It was a primary inspiration for for Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Kill Bill’ films.

‘Shoplifters’ – a family business on Max

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Cannes winner, childhood, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, Max, socially aware cinema, SVOD 07/06/202307/06/2023 Sean Axmaker

Hirokazu Kore-eda won the top prize at Cannes for this poetic and sensitive drama of a Tokyo family surviving on the margins of society.

Mamoru Oshii directs this landmark cyberpunk anime from 1995

The original ‘Ghost in the Shell’ on Prime Video and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Animation, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, International Cinema, MUBI, Science Fiction, SVOD 07/03/202307/03/2023 Sean Axmaker

Mamoru Oshii’s animated cyberpunk thriller is a dazzling work of science fiction and visual invention that mixes adventure, mystery, and metaphysics.

‘Youth of the Beast’ – Yakuza cinema out of control on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Crime, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, gangsters, International Classics, SVOD, thriller 06/20/202306/20/2023 Sean Axmaker

Seijun Suzuki’s delirious take on pulp gangster films blows the lid off the Yakuza genre with mad energy and stylistic excess.

Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ikiru’ on Max and Criterion Channel

!Featured, Blu-ray, Criterion, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, Max, socially aware cinema, SVOD 06/15/202306/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

Takashi Shimura stars as the career bureaucrat who wakes up from a sleepwalking existence to give his life meaning in Kurosawa’s most personal movie.

‘Gate of Flesh’ – the mercenary world of Japan after World War II on Criterion Channel

!Featured, based on a novel, Crime, Criterion Channel, drama, DVD, International Classics, SVOD 05/25/202305/25/2023 Sean Axmaker

Seijun Suzuki puts the candy colored art direction of an American Technicolor musical in the service of an erotically charged tale of desperation and doom in this underworld drama set in post-war Japan.

‘Branded to Kill’ – Assassins gone wild on Criterion Channel

!Featured, Action, Blu-ray, Criterion Channel, Cult Movies, DVD, gangsters, International Classics, neo-noir, satire, SVOD, thriller 05/17/202305/16/2023 Sean Axmaker

Seijun Suzuki directs this absolutely mad yakuza movie that turns downright surreal when rival assassins engage in a sadistic game of cat and mouse.

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