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Shaw Scares: Volume 1 from Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray Boxset Review

Horror is nothing new in Chinese film, quite often the stories are based off a collection of stories called Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling about a ghost romantically attaching itself to an innocent victim which is how we get films like The Enchanting Shadow (1960) to A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). These type of films are primarily set in ancient times but in the 1970s there was a modern horror boom in Hollywood thanks to the likes of The Exorcist (1973) tha

His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) Blu-ray Review

Ko (Riki Takeuchi) is a motorcycle courier who recently broke up with Fuyumi, the sister of his boss Hidemasa, resulting in Ko going to the countryside where he meets Miyo (Kiwako Hirada), a young local who quickly becomes obsessed with motorcycles. Ko, infatuated with Miyo, decides to teach her how to ride but becomes concerned that her fanaticism may lead to her early and violent demise. His Motorbike, Her Island on the surface is a simple teen romance melodrama with some b

Shaw Scares: Volume 1 from Vinegar Syndrome Blu-ray Boxset Review

Horror is nothing new in Chinese film, quite often the stories are based off a collection of stories called Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling about a ghost romantically attaching itself to an innocent victim which is how we get films like The Enchanting Shadow (1960) to A Chinese Ghost Story (1987). These type of films are primarily set in ancient times but in the 1970s there was a modern horror boom in Hollywood thanks to the likes of The Exorcist (1973) tha

Mar 158 min read

His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) Blu-ray Review

Ko (Riki Takeuchi) is a motorcycle courier who recently broke up with Fuyumi, the sister of his boss Hidemasa, resulting in Ko going to the countryside where he meets Miyo (Kiwako Hirada), a young local who quickly becomes obsessed with motorcycles. Ko, infatuated with Miyo, decides to teach her how to ride but becomes concerned that her fanaticism may lead to her early and violent demise. His Motorbike, Her Island on the surface is a simple teen romance melodrama with some b

Mar 103 min read

Challenge of the Lady Ninja (1983) Blu-ray Review

Crimson garbed Wong Siu Wai (Loretta Yang Hui-shan) has just completed her seventeen year training in Japan becoming the first lady ninja but must return to her home country China due to the murder of her father by the traitor, Li Tong (Chen Kuan-tai), who is working with Japan's military occupiers. Wong gets to work to avenge her father by training a group of women in martial arts putting on their unique sexual persuasion skills to take down Li and his crew of bodyguards who

Mar 83 min read