Tag Archives: cinema

The Tastiest Japanese Food Movies

When’s the last time you walked away from a movie hungry? It’s pretty rare for me. American movies about food seem to be few and far between, and the ones that are around are usually socially-conscious documentaries that bum me out more than anything. Japanese movies about food seem to do exactly the opposite. Most [...]

Samurai Actor Dies for a Living

Certain clichés permeate different films. Parodies like Scary Movie (and the other, awful franchises that followed) couldn’t exist if movies didn’t draw upon these stereotypes. Japanese samurai films are unquestionably rife with their own brand of clichés; the two samurai dashing at each other, swords drawn, only to have one fall to his death. No [...]