Yoksuke Kubozuka – Heroic Cinema https://www.heroic-cinema.com The guide to Asian movies in Australia Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:47:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 18894642 Tomie 3: Rebirth (2001) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/tomie-3-rebirth-2001/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:07:49 +0000 http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/tomie-3-rebirth-2001/ Well, there’s a thing: a Tomie movie with a plot! And I have to say it’s not at all bad, despite being made on a budget that would make a grown director weep.

Perhaps some of this giddy enthusiasm comes from having sat through the interminable Tomie 2. Sheer relief at not being faced with another whey-face, smirking teen queen may have led me to see this one as better than it is. Or perhaps it’s because some of … (read more)

]]> 1877 Tomie 2: Replay (2000) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/tomie-2-replay-2000/ Sun, 05 Aug 2007 05:54:47 +0000 http://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/tomie-2-replay-2000/ Alas, poor Tomie: I knew her, Heroic Cinemanauts. A girl of infinite flirting and fancy, with a side order of cutting a bloody swathe through the teen male population. I was pleasantly surprised by the original Tomie, and so settled in for a marathon of Tomie-watching.

Alas for my expectations, this sequel is a poor imitation. We’ve lost the bewitching Miho Kanno, who was capable of making a psychotic, unkillable, regenerative boy-killer seem like a poor misunderstood girl (at … (read more)

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