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2021
'ID': Beastly Flesh March 25, 2021
Kei Fujiwara's sequel to 'Organ' ends up being more merely unpleasant than unsettling
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2019
'Hells': Infernal Affairs January 07, 2019
Visually and stylistically uninhibited, but a narrative and logistical jumble, this afterlife fantasy is as divisive as it is inventive
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2018
'Devilman Crybaby': Sympathy From The Devil January 17, 2018
Maverick director Masaaki Yuasa retells one of Gō Nagai's infamous operas of ultraviolence, with Yuasa adding both his trademark psychedelic visuals and a story that ultimately aims to break your heart, not just turn your stomach
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2017
The 'Silence' Of Shusaku Endō, Masahiro Shinoda, And Martin Scorsese November 07, 2017
On two film adaptations, entirely dissimilar but equally fascinating, of a Japanese novel about the persecution of Christians in Tokugawa-era Japan
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'Haibane Renmei': The Kids In God's Waiting Room September 02, 2017
An allegory, wrapped in a mystery, served up as a children's tale
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2016
'The Fake': Closer To God October 25, 2016
The follow-up from the director of 'King Of Pigs' is both more artistically accomplished and more emotionally scarring, an attempt to get us to care about someone who would otherwise never warrant our sympathy
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