4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on June 15, 2021

A crowd gathers outside the Yamato Hotel. Inside two lovers are slain, the cops milling about the crime scene: The man and the woman. The note. It all points to a double suicide (Shinju) and with it a conventional police procedural. It very well could have been if not for...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on January 16, 2018

Youth of the Beast Directed by Seijun Suzuki Written by Ichiro Ikeda and Tadaki Yamakazi from a novel by Haruhiko Obayu 1963/Japan Nikkatsu Film Company First viewing/FilmStruck Was Seijun Suzuki the Sam Fuller of Japan?  Possibly. The plot is almost too complicated to follow.  The movie begins   read more