Sensei Sensibility

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. "The dragon lives in the human heart..." Every now and then, a movie comes along that reminds you exactly why you want to spend all your spare time thinking, talking and writing about Asian cinema. Sogo (now Gakuryu ) Ishii's 2000 cult classic Electric Dragon 80.000 V is one such film. Move Over Detective Pikachu... Highly reminiscent  of the works of Shinya Tsukamoto,  Electric Dragon  is an  electrifying , punk renegade sci-fi, that draws on an exquisite B-Movie aesthetic. Shot entirely in black and white and set in a vaguely dystopian future/alternate reality Tokyo, we meet "Dragon Eye" Morrison, the great reptile detective. Trawling the backstreets and side-alleys of the city, Dragon Eye makes his living tirelessly searching for lost or mis...

Welcome to Sensei Sensibility!  You  are the hungry mind yearning to devour quality Asian cinema;  I  am the (questionably) knowledgeable  Sensei , more than happy to satiate your cinematic appetite. "Time is a lot less forgiving than you think..." If my ever increasing grey hairs and deepening crow's feet are anything to go by, truer words were never spoken. However, if you're looking for absolute cinematic escapism, it doesn't come much richer than in Katsuyuki Matsohiro's 2005 sci-fi comedy  Summer Time Machine Blues.  If you like hilarious, heart-warming coming of age films that perfectly encapsulate the quintessential Japanese summer - then Summer Time Machine Blues from  Third Window Films  will not disappoint. Directed by Katsuyuki Motohiri, written by Makoto Ueda - and adapted from Ueda's original play of the same name -  STMB takes place on a rural college campus during an intense summer heatwave. The boisterous boys of the sc...