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Stars: Tomori Abe, Kensuke Ashihara, Satoshi Eishima, Goki, Yôta Kawase, Riri Kôda, Rima Matsuda, Masanori Mimoto, Maki Mizui, Seminosuke Murasugi | Written by Yoshihiro Nishimura, Sakichi Satô | Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura

Asian extreme horror is noted and adored for its absurdity and graphic content. For me, it can either be “Oh My God! This Insane Fun!” or “Really!? More of this!?”. That’s why admittedly, my experience with the genre (if it’s fair to pigeon hole these films to one genre.) is fairly limited. I feel it’s my duty as a reviewer to let you know I have never seen the original Meatball Machine from 1999, but I did watch the 2005 remake a fair few years a go (which this film is the sequel of.) and I gold my hands up that it’s a mere blur to me. From my basic research, it seems like Meatball Machine Kodoku is indeed a direct sequel,...

I have to admit, although films do not frustrate me easily, even the worse of them, I was quite unnerved by this one, for about half an hour, particularly because it seemed to me overly pretentious. However, somewhere at that point, I found the mind to watch it as it truly is: a collage of photos glued together by a thin narrative that aims at presenting some extreme social comments.

“Still life of Memories” is available from Article Films

Haruma Suzuki is a somewhat eccentric photographer, whose works mainly consist of taking stills of the fauna and flora in black-and-white film. His works are exhibited in a gallery where his girlfriend, Natsuki, also works (?). One day, Haruma meets Rei, a museum curator who becomes fascinated with his photos and eventually asks him for a private project on two conditions: He asks no questions and gives her the negatives. Though puzzled by the secrecy,...

Stars: Tomori Abe, Kensuke Ashihara, Satoshi Eishima, Goki, Yôta Kawase, Riri Kôda, Rima Matsuda, Masanori Mimoto, Maki Mizui, Seminosuke Murasugi | Written by Yoshihiro Nishimura, Sakichi Satô | Directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura

Asian extreme horror is noted and adored for its absurdity and graphic content. For me, it can either be “Oh My God! This Insane Fun!” or “Really!? More of this!?”. That’s why admittedly, my experience with the genre (if it’s fair to pigeon hole these films to one genre.) is fairly limited. I feel it’s my duty as a reviewer to let you know I have never seen the original Meatball Machine from 1999, but I did watch the 2005 remake a fair few years a go (which this film is the sequel of.) and I gold my hands up that it’s a mere blur to me. From my basic research, it seems like Kodoku Meatball Machine is indeed a direct sequel,...