Tom Piccirilli
Tom Piccirilli lives in Colorado, where, besides writing, he spends an inordinate amount of time watching trash cult films and reading Gold Medal classic noir and hardboiled novels. He's a fan of Asian cinema, especially horror movies, bullet ... [... more]
Random House |
Curse of the Golden Flower [Blu-ray]
 What I do not give, you must never take by force.: Emperor Ping returns to his palace just before the Chong Young Festival. The Empress Phoenix, his wife, is far from happy to see his return. Ping has ordered his imperial doctor to slowly poison the [... more]
CDN$39.90
Amazon CA |
Tom Vick from HarperCollins Publishers
Tom Vick is one of the foremost experts on Asian cinema. He is the film programmer for the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution, where he organizes film series and retrospectives of Asian films. He lives in Rockville, Maryland. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Moon Warriors
The Most Horrible Martial Arts Film I've Ever Seen!!!!!: I am appalled at the reviews for this DVD. This movie is not only horrible, its so bad, I WOULDN'T EVEN WANT IT IF IT WAS FREE!!! I have to say, I read the reviews on this site and saw that people [... more]
CDN$22.99
Amazon CA |
Curse of the Golden Flower
What I do not give, you must never take by force.: Emperor Ping returns to his palace just before the Chong Young Festival. The Empress Phoenix, his wife, is far from happy to see his return. Ping has ordered his imperial doctor to slowly poison the [... more]
CDN$22.97
Amazon CA |
Evil Dead Trap (Widescreen)
Confusing yet entertaining: Toshiharu Ikeda's "Evil Dead Trap," a.k.a. "Shiryo no Wana," quickly became one of Japan's highest grossing horror films. The film was so successful, if essentially unoriginal, that it spawned at least two [... more]
CDN$32.99
Amazon CA |
Ringu
From Amazon.com: A grainy, enigmatic videotape has the power to kill people seven days after they watch it. This brilliant premise fueled the 2002 Hollywood hit The Ring, but before that it conquered Japan in Ringu, Hideo Nakata's quietly unsettling [... more]
CDN$15.61
Amazon CA |
Chunhyang (Widescreen)
The Pansori didn't really bother me: What really bothered me was the ending! The first 95% of the film was very high quality, very cinematic, engaging, sensual and beautiful. The use of color was notably pleasant. The characterizations were deep for most [... more]
CDN$31.98
Amazon CA |
Tell Me Something [Widescreen Subtitled]
More like "Basic Instinct" than "Se7en": First, let me say that I enjoyed this movie a lot. Understood it? Well, now, I wouldn't presume to go that far. However, I would like to clear up that this movie was NOT like "Se7en" [... more]
CDN$18.95
Amazon CA |
Warriors Of Heaven And Earth
From Amazon.com: Anybody hungering for a good old-fashioned Western needs to check out Warriors of Heaven and Earth, which--although it's set in 7th-century China--has all the valor and spectacle of a John Ford picture. It also has a goofy supernatural [... more]
CDN$16.95
Amazon CA |
Lady Snowblood - DVD
From Amazon.com: A flamboyantly blood-spattered samurai revenge picture with a twist: the implacable seeker of retribution is a slender female (Meiko Kaji) with a flawless ivory complexion and a dead-center killer stare. Born in prison, Snowblood is [... more]
CDN$33.99
Amazon CA |
Shiri (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: A dazzling action movie from South Korea, Shiri follows two South Korean government agents, Ryu and Lee, as they pursue a female super-assassin from North Korea. Meanwhile, an elite paramilitary squad from North Korea has stolen a [... more]
CDN$37.95
Amazon CA |
