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Masakazu Migita

Nyaff 2010: Review of Death Kappa
Year: 2010

Directors: Tomo'o Haraguchi

Writers: Masakazu Migita

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Trailer: link

Review by: Bob Doto

Rating: 6.5 out of 10

By most people’s standards Tomoo Haraguchi’s Death Kappa is a stupid film. Silly sound effects, ridiculous dancing “monsters” (humans in rubber suits grooving to children’s pop music), and a pretty absurd plot all make for the worst movie of all time. However, Death Kappa is also pretty funny, meanders like any off-the-wall Japanese film should, and contains enough self-awareness to keep the more well-versed kaiju audience in attention. So, yes, while Death Kappa is goofy beyond the most misplaced of fart jokes, it’s also satire and thus elbows its way into a roomier review.

The story goes like this: A young girl named Kanako (Misato Hirata) returns to her village after a failed attempt at being a pop sensation in Tokyo to witness her grandmother being run over...
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  • 7/19/2010
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Review of Minoru Kawasaki's Executive Koala
Year: 2005

DVD Release date: November 18 2008

Director: Minoru Kawasaki

Writers: Minoru Kawasaki / Masakazu Migita

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Amazon: Link

Review by: Ulises

Rating: 10 out of 10 (if 10 = The Most Absurd Thing I’ve Ever Seen)

The Bottom Line: A cult film all the way, Executive Koala never pretends to be anything other than an absurd, off-the-wall, whacked-out comedy-drama about a giant koala being accused of murder. Take it (and this review) seriously at your own risk.

There’s a line in the middle of Executive Koala that’s funny not just because of what it says, but because of how it’s said. As a concerned psychiatrist grabs his sobbing, self-doubting patient, he declares with a perfectly straight face, “You’re as normal as the next koala.” The patient just happens to be a six-foot tall Japanese salaryman named Mr. Tamura. Oh, and a giant koala.

Welcome to the world of Japanese cult cinema,...
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  • 11/12/2008
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The Minoru Kawasaki Collection: Review of The World Sinks Except Japan
Year: 2006

Release date: DVD (R1) Nov. 18th, 2008

Director: Minoru Kawasaki

Writers: Minoru Kawasaki & Masakazu Migita & Yasutaka Tsutsui (novel)

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Amazon link: link

Review by: Kevin Ouellette

Rating: 6 out of 10

Japan has sort of faded into the background of the world consciousness in the past few years. Aside from the typical “crazy Japan” pop culture stories that seem to never get old for some, the western world seems to ignore the existence of this once larger-than-life nation. Gone is the fear of superior Japanese products killing the Us manufacturing sector—we’ve since come to terms with that as an unfortunate inevitability—and gone are the icy relations that existed when old men that still remembered World War II were running our respective countries. All we really have left is a shared military and a mutual fascination with each other’s entertainment industries. So what would happen if...
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  • 11/2/2008
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