Genre: Adventure
Actor: Helgi Skúlason, Ingvald Guttorm, John Sigurd Kristensen, Knut Walle, Mikkel Gaup, Nils Utsi, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Svein Scharffenberg, Sverre Porsanger
Director: Nils Gaup
Isabella Endrinal is a curator at A Good Movie to Watch. She’s now free from the corporate night shift. Previous articles have been published in outlets such as NANG Magazine. She’s currently catching up on some classic films… if she isn’t coping with the fact that the Haikyu anime will end soon.
Genre: Adventure
Actor: Helgi Skúlason, Ingvald Guttorm, John Sigurd Kristensen, Knut Walle, Mikkel Gaup, Nils Utsi, Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Svein Scharffenberg, Sverre Porsanger
Director: Nils Gaup
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Actor: Babetida Sadjo, Franck Saurel, Jennifer Tchiakpe, Martine Amisse, Patrice Tepasso, Souleymane Sy Savane
Director: Ellie Foumbi
Genre: Animation, Drama
Actor: Kent Ito, Manaka Iwami, Megumi Han, Rie Takahashi, Rumi Okubo, Takeo Otsuka, Yumi Uchiyama, Yurie Igoma
Genre: Drama, History
Actor: Aisling Loftus, Barbara Marten, Carolina Giammetta, Chrissie Page, David Wenham, Emily Watson, Geoff Morrell, Greg Stone, Harvey Scrimshaw, Hugo Weaving, Kate Rutter, Lorraine Ashbourne, Mandahla Rose, Marg Downey, Molly Windsor, Richard Dillane, Robert Purdy, Russell Dykstra, Stuart Wolfenden, Tanya Myers, Tara Morice
Director: Jim Loach
Honestly, if we’re going to choose between the two Netflix samurai releases dropped on Japan’s Culture Day… It’s going to be Blue Eye Samurai. However, Onimusha is a fairly decent Japanese anime, even if it is overshadowed by the Asian-American revenge saga. The show takes the strengths of the original game – samurai fighting oni-controlled zombies – while shifting the show’s timeline to a calmer era that allows it to develop a cohesive plot, unlike old video game adaptations. While the 2D-3D blend falters in exposition scenes, the show’s spectacular horrors, great action scenes, and a cheeky Toshiro Mifune-inspired Miyamoto Musashi makes Onimusha a fun watch.
Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Actor: Akio Otsuka, Daiki Yamashita, Hochu Otsuka, Katsuyuki Konishi, Subaru Kimura
Genre: Drama, Romance
Actor: Ben Van den Heuvel, Ella-June Henrard, Eva van der Gucht, Jelle Florizoone, Luk Wyns, Mathias Vergels, Nathan Naenen, Patricia Goemaere, Thomas Coumans
Director: Bavo Defurne
Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation
Actor: Atsushi Ono, Kenjiro Tsuda, Yuuki Wakai
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Actor: Alan Cumming, Andrew Havill, Angela Curran, Angus Wright, Anne Hathaway, Barry Humphries, Bruce Cook, Charlie Hunnam, Christopher Plummer, Daisy Haggard, David Bradley, Edward Fox, Edward Hogg, Eileen Walsh, Gerard Horan, Hugh Mitchell, Jamie Bell, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson, Kevin McKidd, Lucy Davis, Mark Wells, Nathan Lane, Nicholas Rowe, Phil Davis, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Romola Garai, Sophie Thompson, Stella Gonet, Timothy Spall, Tom Courtenay, William Ash
Director: Douglas McGrath
Genre: Drama, Romance
Actor: Choi Sung-eun, Heo Seon-haeng, Jo Han-chul, Kang Gil-woo, Kim Sung-ryung, Lee Il-hwa, Lee Sang-hee, Seo Hyun-woo, Song Joong-ki, Waël Sersoub, Woo Kang-min
Director: Kim Hee-jin
Genre: Drama, Romance
Actor: Chrystèle Saint-Louis Augustin, Emmanuelle Bercot, Félix Bossuet, Isild Le Besco, Laetitia Dosch, Louis Garrel, Paul Hamy, Vincent Cassel
Director: Maïwenn
The love parents have for their child is powerful, but most parents normally don’t resort to murder for them. Of course, most families don’t actually need to, but like Tetsuo Tosu, they might if their daughter’s yakuza boyfriend plans to murder her first. My Home Hero depicts this scenario, slowly going into the potential sequence of events that could happen, realistically portrayed by Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tae Kimura, and Asuka Saito as the loving family. The family might be a bit cookie-cutter – we’ve seen similar characters in other series before – but they’re relatable enough to make My Home Hero a fairly decent, though generic, crime drama.
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Actor: Asuka Saito, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Kyohei Takahashi, Tae Kimura, Yasushi Fuchikami
Director: Daisuke Yamamoto, Takahiro Aoyama, Takashi Tanazawa
Genre: Drama
Actor: Cole Doman, Devon Ross, Eamon Farren, Eléonore Hendricks, Jane Wickline, Joanna Fang, Odessa Young, Philip Ettinger, Sage Ftacek, Zia Anger
Director: Zia Anger
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Actor: Anna Thomson, Brian Kerwin, Bruce French, Carole King, Charles Lane, Corey Haim, Dennis Burkley, Georgann Johnson, Henry Slate, Irving Ravetch, James Garner, Michael Crabtree, Peggy McCay, Sally Field, Ted Gehring
Director: Martin Ritt
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Actor: Adibah Noor, Ho Yuhang, Mislina Mustaffa, Noorkhiriah, Sharifah Aleya, Sharifah Amani, Sharifah Aryana, Syafie Naswip, Taiyuddin Bakar, Yasmin Ahmad
Director: Yasmin Ahmad
Genre: Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids
Actor: Annouck Hautbois, Antoine Tomé, Benjamin Bollen, Marie Nonnenmacher, Thierry Kazazian