Film / Reviews Sep 24, 2014

Fatal Frame: Mari Asato's uncanny, ghostly dopplegangers

by Mark Schilling

Japanese horror movies have various ways of making you squirm, shiver or watch the screen through your fingers. But sooner or later most scares of the spook-house variety become annoying. How many more times do I want to see a ghostly hand surging from ...

Film Oct 10, 2013

TIFF is your chance to catch up with Japanese film

by Mark Schilling

The Tokyo International Film Festival, now in its 26th edition, has had its share of detractors, dissing it for everything from competition lineups of major festival castoffs (no longer true since TIFF stopped insisting on world premieres) to a Special Screening section that is ...