The Bechdel Scream

Tag: japan

  • Quick Takes: August 2022

    Recommendations on what I’ve watched: J-horror edition, because I was in the mood to binge some strange Japanese horror.

  • Noriko’s Dinner Table

    Noriko’s Dinner Table

    Much has been said about Sion Sono’s masterful film Suicide Club and its biting social commentary on Japanese society. Less, however, has been said of its quiet follow-up film, Noriko’s Dinner Table. This is a shame – while it lacks the violent and shocking nature of the first film, its social critique may be perhaps…

  • Loft

    Loft

    When I finished watching this movie, I was pretty sure I didn’t like it. But over the next couple of days, I found myself unable to stop thinking about it. Even if it was something as small as a fleeting “what the hell was up with that weird movie?” it didn’t simply pass through without…

  • Kairo

    Kairo

    Do you want to meet a ghost? Or rather, do you like your horror with a side of existential crisis? Is garden variety nihilism just too cheerful for your tastes? If the answer to any of these questions was yes, then Japanese horror has gifted you with a dark, unsettling gem that just may be…

  • Sadako vs. Kayako

    Sadako vs. Kayako

    Sadako Vs Kayako is as much of a mess as you’d expect it to be, and you’ll love it all the more for that.

  • Fatal Frame

    Fatal Frame

    “Have you heard of a curse that affects only girls?”

  • Suicide Club

    Suicide Club

    On a quiet spring day, a large group of school girls approach the edge of the platform in a train station. These girls, 54 of them to be exact, then grasp hands before throwing themselves in front of the oncoming train. This is how we are introduced to the world Suicide Club presents, and make…

  • Tomie

    Tomie

    We all like a good love story. You know the kind: boy meets girl, boy likes girl, boy becomes girl’s mind slave, boy murders girl in a jealous rage, girl respawns to spread her evil enslavement powers across the world. You know, the usual.

  • House

    House

    Imagine, if you will, taking the striking visuals of Suspiria, the musical stylings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the innate weirdness of Evil Dead, and putting it all into a blender, operated by David Lynch. Then, take the contents of that blender, and spill it somewhere in 1970s Japan.