Month: November 2024

Japan seems to me to be a conflicted country when it comes to women. On the one hand, as late as World War II the soldiers of that country were establishing rape camps in their conquered nations. (One among many atrocities, mostly unacknowledged to this day.) However, Japanese horror cinema--and folklore--is rife with the…

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. For myself, as every year for several decades now, I'm extremely thankful for all the friends I've made from this site. God bless you all. This is a real mural powerwashed onto Iwayagawauchi Dam in Saga Prefecture. How great is that? Japan, you crazy kids, never change.

The second film in the Daiei Gothic set is The Snow Woman (1968). Snow Woman go back a way in Japanese folk lore, and pop up in other media like manga and anime. Interviews with Monster Girls for instance. Any man who meets them risks being mesmerized and then frozen solid. I think I'll…

With companies scrambling to release nearly all of the hundreds of Shaw Bros. kung fu movies--Shout Factory is releasing it's fifth such set, Arrow it's third, etc.--they are starting to hit other Asian movie niches. It's a great time to be a B-movie geek. Shout Factory has released sets of erotic scf-fi and ghosts,…

Re: last Friday's watch party. I don't know if it's my computer or Kast or using Edge as my browser (which I do only for that, since Kast requires it), but I was having real issues getting the long movie I blathered on about all week. Finally, with the window for starting a long…

I've noted many times--including yesterday--that I have never derived much satisfaction from the many many Ultramans or the many many Ultraman knock-off shows. HOWEVER...I saw a long YouTube video on how the looniest Ultraman series was Ultraman Ace, which happily is all on YouTube. Seeing clips, I watched the second to last (of 52!)…

Father Time. The one monster who *always* wins. Still enough time for a Watch Party this week, though. (I mean, probably.) 7:45 CST this week.