The Japan TimesApr 4, 2024
Shimako Sato’s VFX-heavy, big-budget fantasy about practitioners of mystic arts goes beyond the genre standard. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2024/04/04/film/the-yin-yang-master-zero/ #culture #film #abenoseimei #shimakosato #kentoyamazaki
‘The Yin Yang Master Zero’: Imaginative action film casts a dazzling spell

Shimako Sato’s VFX-heavy, big-budget fantasy about practitioners of mystic arts goes beyond the genre standard.

The Japan Times
CulturaFeb 8, 2023

"None of the American Romantics ever wrote a vampire story or indeed anything as overtly supernatural as A Tale of a Vampire, but Sato pulls from their work to craft her own perfect meditation on grief–a little bit Anne Rice, a lot Edgar Allan Poe, but more subtle than either." https://culturalgutter.com/2023/02/02/the-tell-tale-hearts/

#horror #movies #vampires #JulianSands #ShimakoSato

The Tell-Tale Hearts

The Cultural Gutter
CulturaFeb 2, 2023

The Gutter's own Angela Englert on Shimako Sato's A Tale Of A Vampire (1992), starring Julian Sands: https://culturalgutter.com/2023/02/02/the-tell-tale-hearts/

#movies #ShimakoSato #JulianSands #ATaleOfAVampire
#vampires #horror

The Tell-Tale Hearts

The Cultural Gutter