J.B. Spins

He is short, pear-shaped, and scares the willies out of the Chinese film authorities. Although approved for distribution, the first anim...

It turns out Star Trek and DC Comics didn’t lie to us after all. There are alternate universes out there, somehow existing parallel to ...

You know Ma Seok-do must be a tough cop, because he is played by Ma Dong-seok (Don Lee). Ma has ten days to clean out every last member o...

If Hollywood remakes this Korean thriller, there will be a temptation to call it “Habeas Corpus.” In this case, the National Forensic Ser...

The tradition of pottery and ceramics dates back to at least 600 BC in Japan, where it remains a vital and respected medium for contempor...

Remember in the 80s and 90s when Dick Gephart and Pat Choate were warning us the Japanese were going to buy everything in America worth ...

Technically, Okinawa is still part of Japan, but you might understandably start to doubt that on the remote island of Aguni. The bone wa...

If all you knew about the internet was what you saw in movies, you would think the world would be better off if it rolled back the digita...

Forget about Egyptian cotton and high thread counts. There are no finer textiles then the Hibiol cloth woven by the legendary Iolph. They...

Call it karma fraud. Japanese law requires prospective tenants receive notification of a recent death in a rental unit, but it does not ...

Australians definitely seem to be a freedom loving people, despite their 1996 and 2002 gun laws. Unfortunately, they will regret that le...

As a blond American boy, Bobby already stood out in rural Japan, even before he got trapped in a sinister amusement park of body horror. ...

If you want to learn a little about the cremation process and have a good cry, then Takumi Saito is your man. The actor’s directorial deb...

One thousand years ago, give or take, Russian Slavs had largely displaced the Scythian nomads of Iranian-Assyrian descent along the Eura...

If you thought Heavy Metal magazine was insufficiently violent and sexualized than this is the animation you have been pining for. Now pl...

According to this film’s mythology, people once believed “insects that affected our subconscious lived inside us”—sort of like Scientolo...

If Orpheus and Eurydice lived in this charming Japanese village instead of ancient Greece, they might have had a better chance at cheatin...

Feeling conflicted about the War on Drugs? Erik Matti is about to raise even more concerns regarding the way it is prosecuted in the Phil...