After Alan Ormsby-Honda heard of his twin brother's success with Gojira, in 1953, he bided his time and came up with the ultimate ...

Warning from Space was the first Japanese sci-fi/kaiju movie in color and also made after Godzilla made a lot of money around the wor...

I'm the first one to admit that I'm watching a lot of soulless crap. Most of what I'm watching never - NEVER - gets review...

After Toho closed down the Godzilla-shop in 1975, after Ishiro Honda's masterpiece (and a movie that also failed to gain enough au...

Ishiro Honda was, according me, one of the finest director to ever have lived and work in Japan . He began like everyone else, but aft...

Japanese cinema has for me mostly been Kaiju-movies and Sonny Chiba. I've never been so much into samurai-movies and the recent Sush...

I reality I hate trains. I just see them as a one long coffin of boredom, and it takes forever to get somewhere. Not to mention the smel...

I first watched Virus (aka Fukkatsu No Hi) ages ago on some obscure x-rental I bought for a ridiculous amount of money. To be honest I ...

Last day at Weekend of Horrors in Germany. Tired, broke and just wishing I could be back home in my own bed and with a less aggressive nativ...

I bought this movie under the title War of the Insects, but that’s such a ridiculous title that I’ll stick to the other official US title in...

I’m very unfamiliar with the Japanese Pinku genre and to be honest, until a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t name one single movie. So I’m qui...

It took me a while to actually watch the Hanzo films, but when I finally sat down it was something that was hard to stop watching. Shot betw...

I heard some bad things about The Last Dinosaur , but to be fair, it’s a pretty good dinosaur-adventure which got its reputation from the un...

Count Waldemar Daninsky is back in action, in another dimension of his life. Yeah, another backstory, another ending, another in-between. Ju...

In his memoirs, Roger Corman mentions Submersion of Japan (1973), a big budget disaster movie from Toho, which he bought the rights to, remo...

I like logical titles, and The Green Slime might be the most logical title since The Blob. You get what you expect and neither of them are ...

Sometime all you need is a whack in the head with a huge stone, and everything will be alright. So seem the case with Visitor Q , Takashi Mi...

Sweet Home has been on my hard drive for a long time now. There's no easy way to obtain a legal copy, so downloading is the way until t...

I think the main reason why I'm so much in love with disaster movies is the miniatures. No, don't misunderstand me. I enjoy modern d...

I had the pleasure to be invited to a press screening of Okuribito, aka Departures, in Sweden retitled Avsked . It won the Academy Award for...