Kaiju Shakedown

Kaiju Shakedown: Kim Jee-Woon

By Grady Hendrix

June 16, 2015

Why did the director whose film inspired Happiness of the Katakuris trade excess for restraint?

Kaiju Shakedown: Girls with Guns

By Grady Hendrix

June 3, 2015

Glorious ladies of kick-ass: Hong Kong's cycle of shoot-em-ups in stilettos (and pumps)

Kaiju Shakedown: Kuei Chih-hung

By Grady Hendrix

April 17, 2015

Showing how the system works (and breaking arms along the way), this Shaw Brothers director mixed the wacked-out with the clued-in

Kaiju Shakedown: The Ramsays of Bollywood

By Grady Hendrix

March 20, 2015

From hell to haveli: a look at the glorious, gory legacy of India's first family of horror

Kaiju Shakedown: Story of Sorrow and Sadness

By Grady Hendrix

March 4, 2015

Mad men (and the women they torture for financial gain): Seijun Suzuki's outlandish, anti-advertising 1977 tour de force

Kaiju Shakedown: Cannon Ninja Films

By Grady Hendrix

February 20, 2015

Men in black: a look back at the finest franchises featuring shurikens this side of the Pacific, including Ninja III, screening tonight in Film Comment Selects

Kaiju Shakedown: Chinese New Year

By Grady Hendrix

February 11, 2015

Unimpressed by releases timed to the Gregorian calendar? Prepare to raise a red lantern for these bubbly, family-friendly classics

Kaiju Shakedown: Taking Tiger Mountain

By Grady Hendrix

January 8, 2015

Tsui Hark's meta-filmic adaptation of a Cultural Revolution-era model opera is a multilayered critique of contemporary China

Kaiju Shakedown: Jimmy Wong Yu

By Grady Hendrix

November 13, 2014

Armed and dangerous: an exclusive talk with the ferocious martial-arts swordsman himself, recipient of the New York Asian Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Kaiju Shakedown: 31 Asian Horror Movies

By Grady Hendrix

October 29, 2014

Mondo Trick or Treat: a round-up of the continent's best (and/or most bizarre) horror movies since the Eighties