Happiness of the Katakuris (DVD)

"The Hills are alive with the sounds of screaming" Takashi Miike is an incredibly prolific director, making three or four films a year for more or less the last ten years. Sometimes cinema releases, sometimes straight to DVD and occasionally even TV movies. He is best known for violent, over the top crime action pieces but he does branch out into other genres occasionally. Audition, one of the first Asian horrors to make it to our shores and strike it big is probably his biggest film closely followed by Ichi the Killer. He also filmed the wonderfully titled 'Multiple Personality Detective Psycho', a film I just have to see just because of that ...  Read the complete review

If you?re into ?weird? cinema then you have to love the Japanese. Their film industry regularly throws out deranged and brilliant films that make your average Hollywood blockbuster look weak by comparison. From creepy horrors like Ring and Uzumaki to the uncategorisable strangeness of Battle Royale or Suicide Circle, Japanese weirdo films have been a source of astonishment and delight to me for the last few years. In the Japanese weird film pantheon, one director towers head and shoulders above the rest. Takashi Miike is probably best known in Britain for the slow-moving (and rather ...  Read the complete review