Malice@Doll (2000)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Anime, Apocalypse, Japanese Cinema, Science Fiction, Sleaze on Tuesday Feb 23, 2010

In the great tradition of other prostitute robot doll movies like Pinnochio, a whorebot is raped by a monster which causes her to become a real live woman! Read More

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Cyborg 009: Legend Of The Super Galaxy (1980)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Animated, Anime, Japanese Cinema, Science Fiction on Thursday Jun 12, 2008

Cyborg 009: Legend Of The Super Galaxy (1980)

From the four corners of the world, eight cyborgs leave their current civilian lives, putting their dreams of being a race car driver, ballerina, and bull fighter (what?) on hold so that they might help one of their own and also to save Earth! Once they join forces, the greatest super team of all team is back in action! Yes true believer, your suspicions are well-founded! The dream is alive and well! Finally after twenty-five years, the Galaxy Legion has reunited to combat evil, to cast light upon the dark, and to find out how 006’s career as a matador is working out! Read More

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Cosmo Warrior Zero Volume 2: Sea Of Stars (2001)

In space no one can hear you scream “filler episodes!” Volume 2 of the Cosmo Warrior Zero saga features episodes 5-8 of the thirteen episode series and is highlighted by space pirate Captain Harlock’s giant guard cow rampaging through a wild west town. Usually, those sort of bovine antics would be enough to unhesitatingly recommend the title (even if there was never any of the expected giant cow pie scenes that such a creature promised), but while the story even has a midget killing the giant cow with a bazooka, things grind to a halt when they haul out that most tired of cliches whenever someone is hunting someone else that they secretly respect. Read More

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Cosmo Warrior Zero Volume 1: Cold Steel Immortals (2001)

I picked this particular title up out of the steaming heap of anime that generally featured big-eyed ten year old girls in short cheerleader skirts fighting off horny demons with lots of frisky tentacles because I thought it would be cool instead of deviant. Don’t get your hopes up though, this one isn’t deviant either. Whatever possessed me to think that any kind of anime could be cool? Two words: space pirates! Read More

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A Chinese Ghost Story (1997)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Animated, Anime, Fantasy, Ghosts, Japanese Cinema on Wednesday May 28, 2008

A Chinese Ghost Story (1997)

Generally speaking, a movie containing not one, but two scenes of urination would not receive a good review from this viewer. Some things are best left to the imagination. This film though somehow manages to make it work. Read More

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Blue Remains (2000)

Posted by monsterhunter Under Action, All Reviews, Animated, Anime, Apocalypse, Japanese Cinema, Science Fiction on Monday May 19, 2008

Blue Remains (2000)

I suppose there’s a reality where a movie featuring an evil floating brain named Glyptofane Sex who is intent on preventing Earth from being re-seeded with human life isn’t just an example of the “let’s use a floating brain as a bad guy just because floating brains are intrinsically evil” school of filmmaking. Read More

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A.LI.CE (1999)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Animated, Anime, Japanese Cinema, Science Fiction on Friday May 9, 2008

AliceCoverI’m not one of those 2-D snobs when it comes to my animation. I realize that there is a contingent of folks out there that bemoan the disappearance of the traditionally drawn “flat” animation and bitterly complain about how cartoons have lost something with the advent of computer generated images. Like anything else though, the old style animation was just as capable as producing crap as any art form. If you don’t believe me, then you never sat through Saturday morning cartoons during the 1980s (simple backgrounds and stiff characters ring a bell?). Read More

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Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981)

Posted by monsterhunter Under All Reviews, Animated, Anime, Japanese Cinema, Science Fiction on Thursday May 8, 2008

Adieu Galaxy Express 999 (1981)

The movie starts out with Tetsuro getting a message to once again board the Galaxy Express 999. (I’m taking a wild guess that he rode the rails in the original Galaxy Express 999.) Earth has become a warzone with invading something or others causing trouble for our high-pitched hero. Aided by a group of aging rebels who sacrifice themselves so that he can catch his train, Tetsuro boards the 999. The destination? Space adventure! Read More

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