Gemini (1999)
Tarō Hirai is better known as his pen name, Edogawa Ranpo (taken from Edgar Allan Poe). Writing often of the Boy Detectives Club and their leader Kogoro Akechi, he brought his love for Western detective fiction and melded it with traditional Japanese legend. Shinya Tsukamoto is best known for his stop-motion cyberpunk body freakouts Tetsuo: […]
Kiliç Aslan (1975)
If you’re going to get into Cüneyt Arkin and you worry, “Will my fragile sensibilities be able to handle sub-VHS prints and an absolute lack of English and therefore no safety net for the absolute phantasmagorical leap into madness that I’m about to take,” permit The Sword and the Claw — or Lionman — to be your […]
Demir Yumruk: Devler Geliyor (1973)
This is a superhero movie — I guess, the jury is really out — that is also a Fu Manchu movie because, well, look when you’re watching Turkish cinema, your best weapon in the face of insanity is to just shut off your brain and go for the ride. So if Fu Manchu ends up […]
The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal (2007)
If you’re as fascinated as I am with Killing — or Kilink — after this week of films, good news. This Italian-American documentary has plenty of great info on how these fumetti neri comics became such a sensation. Unlike American comics, Killing was a live action photo comic, featuring a skeletal costume designed by Carlo […]
Sihirbazlar Krali Mandrake Killing’in Pesinde (1967)
Of all the people Kilink — Killing to his friends — has met, Mandrake the Magician seems to be the strangest. That’s saying something, as he also encountered the Frankenstein Monster and Django, so either he has a time machine or some really good drugs. Also known as Kilink vs. Mandrake, this is a 55-minute journey […]
Kilink: Soy Ve Öldür (1967)
Killing — or Kilink — is the star of an Italian photo comic who was created in 1966 in the wake of the popularity of Diabolik. He’s a ruthless criminal who wears a skeletal suit — designed by Carlo Rambaldi! — and he kills other crooks for their stolen goods and can imitate anyone. If […]
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