Sensei Sensibility

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind yearning to devour Asian horror themed cinema; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. Here on Sensei Sensibility we’ve covered plenty of ghosts ‘n’ ghouls (and even a gangster), no wonder we’re feeling peckish for something more… meaty… and delicious… like juicy, juicy braaaaaaains. (Or cabbages!) The Odd Family: Zombie on Sale , or as it’s succinctly known on Shudder: Zombie For Sale is a 2019 Korean zom-com that chomps away at the genre… and spits it back out. Against the backdrop of a thunderously dark and stormy night, a zombie escapes from a  local big pharma complex. Zombie-ism being an unexpected side-effect of a new diabetes drug, this once-test-subject is now making a beeline for the local village.  That would be a sinister enough opening to any horror movie were it not for the fact that our zombie, adorably played by Jung Ga-Ram , is the most ineffective z

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind, yearning to devour Asian cinema; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite! If you’re looking for a blood-soaked, badass gangster movie - look no further than Kazuya Shiraishi ’s 2018 Yakuza epic The Blood of Wolves ( Korō no Chi). Set in Hiroshima, summer 1988, maverick Detective Shogo Ogami has just teamed up with young rookie Shuichi Hioka on The Case of the Missing Financier from a Yakuza Affiliated Company. Kinda feels like a waste of time either of them hoping to find him alive as the film actually opens with a graphic and brutal depiction of Missing Financier’s sad, stomach churning, and darkly comic demise. However, this one death is just the tipping point for what will be an unforgiving and savage war between the Odani-gumi and Kakomura-gumi yakuza gangs - heads will roll. Literally. The irascible, womanising Ogami is played with genuine wit and charisma by

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility! You are the hungry mind, yearning to devour Asian horror themed cinema; I am the (questionably) knowledgeable Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. Chances are, you’re familiar (at least in passing) with Master of Horror Junji Ito. As a highly-acclaimed, prolific manga-ka, Ito carved his throne of nightmares with grotesque and surreal genre-pushing imagery and storylines.  Often blending horror and sci-fi, the beauty of Ito’s terror is the fact his works depict scenes that are beyond the day-to-day imagination and comprehension of us mere mortals. How then, do you take the monstrous, otherworldly works of Ito off the page and onto the screen? Generally, with great difficulty. Enter Higuchinsky’s Made For T.V. movie Nagai Yume , (2000) better known in the west as The Long Dream. While there are certain Junji Ito stories that lend themselves to cinematic adaptation - Tomie , for example, centring round an attractive “human” gi