Daimajin Return of Daimajin Daimajin Strikes Again Daimajin: Lord Hanabasa assures his two children that recent earthquakes are not to be feared as their good god will protect them. The common villagers have a different view, gathering to perform a ceremony to keep an evil spirit locked away in a giant statue. Samanosuke, the traitorous
Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki), a recently divorced mother going through an unpleasant custody battle, moves with her young daughter (Rio Kanno) to an apartment with a water-damaged ceiling. Soon, water is dripping into the bedroom, and a missing girl is appearing and disappearing around the building. Director Hideo Nakata created a new horror film movement in
In the far future of 1999, the giant monsters of the world, including Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and others no one cares about, have been imprisoned on an island cleverly named Monster Land (Monster Island in the subtitled version, which is… better). Of course all is not well as aliens plan to invade Earth using the
Misa Kuroi (Kimika Yoshino) is an average high school girl, with absent parents, until her friends are slaughtered and the killer comes after her. Years ago, a clan of magic-users was destroyed by a resurrected spirit. After a 100 years sleep, the spirit is back, hopping bodies until it finds the one it wants to
A blind woman, Wong Kar Mun (Angelica Lee, also known as Lee Sin-je), is given an eye operation that restores her sight. But her blurry first images include dark shapes that visit the beds of the dying. Soon she is seeing the dead everywhere, and she starts to break down. One of the more significant
Countess Irina Karlstein (Lina Romay) vacations on the island of Madeira, where her family’s vampirism has become myth. However, it is quite real, and as she kills locals for their life force, a few believers seek her out, several to destroy her, and a poet to be with her. As the credits appear, we see a beautiful
The still beating heart of Frankenstein (they don’t say Frankenstein’s Monster; they say Frankenstein) is taken to Japan in 1945, but it is lost when the atomic bomb destroys Nagasaki. Fifteen years later, an American medical researcher (Nick Adams), his sidekick vivisectionist, and a nurse find a radiation resistant boy with a flat head. The
A Princess goes missing after an assassination attempt, and turns up in Japan, claiming to be a 5000 year old prophetess from outer space (Venus in the subtitled version, Mars in the dubbed). She predicts that Rodan will rise from a volcano, Godzilla will destroy a ship, and a space monster named King Ghidrah will
Ji-won (Ha-Neul Kim), suffering amnesia after an “incident” a year ago, has decided to study abroad, much to the chagrin of her possessive mother. When one of her old friends drowns in her kitchen, Ji-won begins to investigate the past, and discovers she was a rather unpleasant girl, with three unpleasant friends, all of whom
Major Motoko Kusanagi, a cyborg agent in Section 9, and her partner, Batô, track a hacker known as The Puppet Master who can control not only machines, but humans. A prime example of Cyberpunk, Ghost in the Shell takes place in the near future, and includes robots, cyborgs, computers, huge corporations, untrustworthy governments, and hacking. It is
Yuri (Chiharu Nîyama), a faux reporter for a fake documentary TV series, stumbles upon information about three guardian monsters, Baragon, Mothra, and Ghidorah, who will rise up to defend Japan when Godzilla returns. Obsessed with reporting real news, she sets out to film the monster combat. Her father is an admiral who lived through Godzilla’s