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Kaiju Shakedown
Kaiju Shakedown: Huang Jianxin
By
Grady Hendrix
August 5, 2014
Lost in the shuffle: recognizing the career of the underappreciated Fifth Generation director, who specialized in comedy
Kaiju Shakedown: Kinji Fukasaku
By
Grady Hendrix
July 28, 2014
Birth of a nation: the classic yakuza pentalogy
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
as guide to postwar Japan
Kaiju Shakedown: Angela Mao
By
Grady Hendrix
July 22, 2014
Destroy, she said: a look at action star Angela Mao's Golden Harvest films
Kaiju Shakedown: Eternal Zero
By
Grady Hendrix
July 15, 2014
Death wish: Takashi Yamazaki's film about kamikaze unapologetically shows another side of the war
Kaiju Shakedown: So Much Sex!
By
Grady Hendrix
July 8, 2014
Kowloon blue: a brief history of Hong Kong's sexploitation flicks
Kaiju Shakedown: Slow Japan
By
Grady Hendrix
July 2, 2014
Mono no imaimashii: on the annoyance—not the sadness—of the passage of time
Kaiju Shakedown: Snowpiercer
By
Grady Hendrix
June 24, 2014
In Bong Joon Ho's futuristic dystopia-on-a-train, the end of the world is nigh—and maybe we deserve it?
Kaiju Shakedown: No Man’s Land
By
Grady Hendrix
June 17, 2014
Ning Hao's years-long battle with Mainland Chinese censors can't be reduced to good versus evil
Kaiju Shakedown: Hopping Vampires Edition
By
Grady Hendrix
June 5, 2014
Leaps and bounds: all you need to know about a singular vampiric phenomenon in Hong Kong cinema
Kaiju Shakedown: Filipino Crime
By
Grady Hendrix
May 29, 2014
Killa and a Thrilla in Manila: a handful of the most captivating, gory flicks from the Philippines
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