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Grady Hendrix

Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films of Shinya Tsukamoto

By Grady Hendrix
March 5, 2020
Tsukamoto goes where his gut leads him, handcrafting a huge number of freaked-out sci-fi nightmares, including a few masterpieces

Kaiju Shakedown: Michael Jai White

By Grady Hendrix
August 30, 2016
Down with the quickness: the DTV star of Never Back Down: No Surrender discusses the synchronicity of fight choreography and cinematography

Kaiju Shakedown: Lee Joon-Ik

By Grady Hendrix
July 22, 2016
History play: the Korean filmmaker brings his country’s past to rollicking life with the wisdom of fools and the joys of the grotesque

Kaiju Shakedown: Kamal Haasan

By Grady Hendrix
July 8, 2016
Mirror mask: the Tollywood actor who's never shied away from controversial topics or multiple, outrageous roles in the same film

Kaiju Shakedown: Sammo Hung

By Grady Hendrix
June 8, 2016
Heavyweight champion: a nuts-and-bolts explanation of exactly how and why the legendary Hong Kong fighter kicks ass

Kaiju Shakedown: Let’s Go to an Island!

By Grady Hendrix
March 30, 2016
Outliers: the weird and unspeakable things that go on in insular communities

Kaiju Shakedown: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2

By Grady Hendrix
March 17, 2016
Down for the count: braving the somnolent onslaught of a misbegotten sequel

Kaiju Shakedown: Shunji Iwai

By Grady Hendrix
February 16, 2016
Not-so-cruel stories of youth: on the Japanese director who shows the profundity in teenagers and pop music

Kaiju Shakedown: Ip Man 3

By Grady Hendrix
January 20, 2016
Punch the legend: Bruce Lee's real-life martial-arts mentor continues to feed a lineage that stretches back decades

Kaiju Shakedown: Disappearing in Plain Sight

By Grady Hendrix
December 29, 2015
Never fade away: a talk with the head of film preservation company L’Immagine Ritrovata Asia about saving Hong Kong and Chinese cinema

Kaiju Shakedown: Korean Film on YouTube

By Grady Hendrix
December 7, 2015
National treasure: a user's guide to the wild and woolly world of rare Korean titles now streaming for free

Festivals: Busan

By Grady Hendrix
November 18, 2015
House of false repute: Korea's premiere international film festival is showing signs of pan-Asian atrophy

Kaiju Shakedown: Hidden Criterion

By Grady Hendrix
November 13, 2015
Not coming to a high-definition format near you: a critic's choice of the amazing films by Japanese auteurs that have surfaced on streaming

Kaiju Shakedown: Black Magic Movies

By Grady Hendrix
October 28, 2015
Things that go splat in the night: a survey of the spooky, spurting, uncontainable genre perfected by the Shaw Brothers

Kaiju Shakedown: The Industry Roundup

By Grady Hendrix
October 15, 2015
West of Hollywood: a survey of the surging power of China and Korea's film business, Japan's stagnation, and everything in between

Kaiju Shakedown: Danny Lee

By Grady Hendrix
September 15, 2015
Copping to it: in praise of the Hong Kong actor who's spent the last 31 years almost exclusively playing policemen

Kaiju Shakedown: Two-Part Movies

By Grady Hendrix
September 1, 2015
Double your money: a (one-part) history of splitting up movies for fun and profit

Kaiju Shakedown: Assassination

By Grady Hendrix
August 11, 2015
Patriotic duty: Korean blockbuster director Choi Dong­ Hoon brings forth a melodrama hidden in an espionage thriller's clothing

Ringo Lam: Man on Fire

By Grady Hendrix
August 6, 2015
Urban renewal: the Hong Kong director took action-movie violence to the streets—and now he's back

Kaiju Shakedown: Mani Ratnam

By Grady Hendrix
July 31, 2015
Sound and fury: the Tamil director tackled the horrors of terrorism and sectarian violence with large-scale musicals