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7 February 2009 6:42 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

[Our thanks to the mighty and powerful Grady Hendrix for the following review.]

The economy is on fire. Everyone in America is broke. Jobs are a rumor. The terrorists are winning. But I just saw Yatterman and I’m feeling groovy. A vaccination against The Dark Knight blues, a massive day-glo rail of cocaine that hits your brain like the Accela Express and kick starts your pleasure centers, this flick is far smarter than it has any right to be and it pops the pip all over your popple.

I may not be the best judge of a Miike movie, especially this one. As part of Subway Cinema I helped host the world premiere last night, and as a fan of the director I like my Miike movies in the vein of The Great Yokai War rather than Ichi the Killer (I like Ichi the Killer, but I thought Yokai was pretty amazing). On top of that, I had listened in on dozens »

- Todd Brown

23 January 2009 9:25 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

While you may not know Naoto Takenaka by name, believe me when I say that if you’re any kind of fan of Japanese cult film then you know the popular comedian’ss face.  Takenaka has played key roles in a string of popular films ranging from Ping Pong to Azumi to Swing Girls to The Great Yokai War.  And now Takenaka is stepping behind the camera to create Yamagata Scream, his latest directorial effort.

The story is set in a village in the Yamagata prefecture, inspired by tales of the ochimusha of the Taira clan. The ochimusha were warriors who, after being defeated in battle, fled to remote areas of Japan and established small towns to live in. In the film, a businessman and a high school girl arrive in the village and accidentally unearth one of the Taira graves, awakening the zombies of the ochimusha. Takenaka will play the “zombie general. »

- Todd Brown

2 articles from 2009