http://www.sagajet.com Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:48:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.sagajet.com/film-review-battle-royale http://www.sagajet.com/film-review-battle-royale#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:42:31 +0000 Tim Cooke http://www.sagajet.com/?p=12 Battle Royale (2000). Continue reading →]]> http://www.sagajet.com/film-review-battle-royale/feed 0 http://www.sagajet.com/film-review-tetsuo-the-iron-man http://www.sagajet.com/film-review-tetsuo-the-iron-man#comments Sun, 17 Oct 2004 23:29:26 +0000 Tim Cooke http://www.sagajet.com/features/film-review-tetsuo-the-iron-man/ setsuwa (apparently), are an old tradition in Japan: the crossing of boundaries between the human and the non-human; tales linking the animal and human worlds that overlap, on occasion, with Western mythology. It's tempting to cite salary men morphing into slobbering, giggling, schoolgirl-hungry creatures from a netherworld twenty minutes after kampai as the most obvious example, but narratives often found in Japanese anime (animated movies) presenting fluid subjects (transforming robots, humans turning into demons, that sort of thing), whose very identities are unstable, paint a (slightly) more sinister vision. Continue reading →]]> http://www.sagajet.com/film-review-tetsuo-the-iron-man/feed 0