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Asian Western Round Up
This month we’re mixing it up at the Gutter with each editor writing about something outside their usual domain. This week Carol Borden writes about movies. She can normally be […]
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Three Observations
POSTED: September 15, 2007 18:10 | By: Carol Borden about Sukiyaki Western Django: Since the dawn of time, humankind has been interested in 2 things, gunslingers and samurai, resulting […]
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Weird Western Tales
POSTED: September 8, 2008 17:20 | By: Carol Borden I’m pretty excited that there are two weird Westerns at the festival this year: The Burrowers and The Good, The Bad […]
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WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL: Yakuza Movies
With the final screening of Sion Sono’s yakuza film coming up, it seems like an excellent time to take a look at some classics of WTF yakuza film! Fudoh: The […]
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TOKYO TRIBE: The Manga In The Madness
Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe premieres tonight and it looks to be a swell affair all around–gangs, fights, musical numbers. Like West Side Story if it were set in a near […]
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TOKYO TRIBE: Four More Japanese Musicals
Sion Sono’s hip hop tribute to West Side Story screened last night and screens again tonight. If you’ve developed an appetite for Japanese musicals here’s five more from directors you […]
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OVER YOUR DEAD BODY: The Many Adaptations of Yotsuya Kaidan
Takashi Miike could not have chosen a more respectable Japanese play to adapt than Yotsuya Kaidan, aka, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan. It is a story originated for the Kabuki stage and […]
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OVER YOUR DEAD BODY: Woodblock Prints of Oiwa
Oiwa, the main character of Yotsuya Kaidan, the play-within-a-film in Takashi Miike’s Over Your Dead Body, is a common subject in Japanese art. Peruse at some ukiyo-e woodblock prints before […]
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THE WORLD OF KANAKO: Japanese Crime Novels
Man, I really wish I had thought to bring a book… Tetsuya Nakashima adapted his screenplay for The World Of Kanako from Hateshinaki Kawaki, a bestselling novel by Akio Fukamachi. […]
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Tamiya Iemon Is The Worst
I was lucky enough to be invited back to Teleport City, this time to write about the classic Japanese ghost story, Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan–as well as a few of it’s adaptations on film. Impoverished...
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