DVD: toyoda     DVD:       Pure Drifting - The Story of Drifting In America8 reviews Loren Ho, Brendan Walker Big Little Films, 2004 Great Show! I can't believe it. An import car motor sport DVD that's really about import car motor sports. I've seen other DVDs on drifting and import car racing, but they're more into "T&A" than the actual sport. Pure Drifting is like a real "TV" documentary that really tells all about the American drifting scene. The whole thing is great. The drifting shots, the interviews with drivers, everything is ...             Jigokuhen1 review Eisei Amamoto, Yôko Naito I See Hell Everywhere Based on a short story by one of Japan's modern literary masters Akutagawa Ryuunosuke, Portrait of Hell takes place during the decaying end of the Heian Period. Known as Japan's classical era, the Heian Era gave birth to many forms of poetry, long fiction, courtly aesthetics, and many cultural elements that are deeply entrenched in Japanese culture. During this long period the Fujiwara family, ...             The Films of Toshiaki Toyoda: Blue Spring/9 Souls Asami Imajuku, Kotomi Kyono Arts Magic, 2006 Two films that showcase the talents of one of the most important young directors working in Japan today, Toshiaki Toyoda. These films are as memorable for their stirring soundtracks as they are for the stellar performances from their all-star casts. Blue Spring ? In this school, the students run the halls. But when the system breaks down, all that is left is violence and death. 9 Souls ? A gang of convicts break out of jail on the trail of a ...             Portrait of Hell1 review Eisei Amamoto, Yôko Naito Animeigo, 2006 I See Hell Everywhere Based on a short story by one of Japan's modern literary masters Akutagawa Ryuunosuke, Portrait of Hell takes place during the decaying end of the Heian Period. Known as Japan's classical era, the Heian Era gave birth to many forms of poetry, long fiction, courtly aesthetics, and many cultural elements that are deeply entrenched in Japanese culture. During this long period the Fujiwara family, ...             Yotsuya kaidan [Region 2] Tatsuya Nakadai, Mariko Okada             Young Japan 3 Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai Arts Magic, 2008 ArtsmagicDVD presents a series of five hard-hitting & controversial titles from the greatest Japanese directors each with a different part of the SALARYMAN KINTARO anime FREE! The third in this exclusive series is the Toshiaki Toyoda classic, Blue Spring which comes with Salaryman Kintaro Part Three free.             Blue Spring4 reviews Ryuhei Matsuda, Hirofumi Arai Arts Magic, 2004 Black Hands (...)If one pays scant attention to the news in Japan, seen Iwai Shunji's _All About Lily Chou Chou_, or read short stories and novels by Murakami Ryu, one knows that Japan, like other countries, suffers from an escalation of violence in schools. This violence works in three ways: student vs. teacher, teacher vs. student, and, the most common, student vs. student. Although it is still rare, the ...             Tokyo Rampage1 review Kôji Chihara, Onimaru Image Entertainment, 2006 Strong Debut This is the debut movie for Toshiaki Toyoda, though the 3rd one to be released stateside. It's also been known under the name Pornostar and Tokyo Psycho. Like his 2nd movie, Blue Spring, this deals with the struggles of youth culture and crime, though with a more raw, disconnected theme. Toshiaki Toyoda reminds me of punkrock director with a very raw, visceral style, but he always splices in ...             FMW (Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling) - Torn To Shreds1 review Sub Miss Sato, Takamura Kaoru Tokyopop Pictures, 2002 Torn To Shreds There are seven matches on this DVD (with one bonus match - excerpts of it at least), some more impressive than others; however, the Kudo VS Tsuchiya in a barbed-wire Death Match alone is worth checking out this DVD for. The likes of the WWE's women's "division" will seem laughable after seeing these FMW matches (assuming you're not laughing at it already). The name "Torn To Shreds" is a little ...             9 Souls6 reviews Asami Imajuku, Kotomi Kyono Arts Magic, 2005 9 souls 9 holes. This is one of the greatest films I have ever seen. If you are a lover of modern Japanese films, you will love 9 Souls. I was very impressed by Toyoda's film Blue Spring, but 9 Souls blows Blue Spring out of the water. The characters are cool, the soundtrack kicks ass, the chicks are hot. What more could you want. The movie is so good, just on a stylistic level, that the fact that the story is ...              search for DVDs america, arts, blue, drifting, films, frontier, hell, japan, jigokuhen, kaidan, martial, portrait, pure, rampage, region, shreds, souls, spring, story, tokyo, torn, toshiaki, toyoda, wrestling, yotsuya, young DVD:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Fine Gardening, October 2007 Issue we recommend Black Hands leave a comment home  impressum - about us