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One Of The Best Japanese Horror Films Of All Time Is Getting A Limited Edition 4K Blu-Ray

One Of The Best Japanese Horror Films Of All Time Is Getting A Limited Edition 4K Blu-Ray https://ift.tt/FwKg8Jk Audition Limited Edition 4K Blu-Ray $38 | Releases June 16 See at Amazon In 2002, I saw the American remake of The Ring and left the theater both haunted and obsessed. The famous cursed videotape made its way into my dreams, eventually triggering a lifelong passion for Japanese horror as I tracked down all the films I could find. It was in that phase that I discovered Audition . Made by famed Japanese director Takashi Miike, the film tells the tale of widowed husband Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi), who is seeking a new wife and holds a fake acting audition to find her. When he meets quiet, beautiful Asami (Eihi Shiina), it seems that everything has gone to plan--that is, until he finds out who's really hiding beneath her demure exterior. The film is 27 years old and well overdue for a clean-up, and that's just what it's getting thanks to the folks at Arrow ...

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Is The Kind Of Game Big Publishers Don't Make Anymore

Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess Is The Kind Of Game Big Publishers Don't Make Anymore https://ift.tt/eh4r2uD

Capcom released an absolute gem of a game this year. No, I'm not talking about Dragon's Dogma 2, Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster, or Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection--all of which hit shelves in 2024. And you didn't miss a stealth release in the Resident Evil, Street Fighter, or Monster Hunter series. Alongside three major well-received releases, Capcom released an off-beat game filled with ghosts, Japanese tradition, and strategic job assignment: Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. This game was released in 2024, but it feels like it was sent forward from 2004--in all the best ways.

No one is going to blame you for having missed it. To say it flew under the radar is an understatement, and Capcom said in a recent financial briefing that the game did not meet sales targets. But Kunitsu-Gami should be treated as almost a historical document, both in the way the game is designed and in its actual content.

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As the warrior Soh, you have to protect the divine maiden Yoshiro so that she can purify the defiled mountain, freeing villagers to help you in a sort of worker-management real-time-strategy game that takes you in a zig-zag path down the mountain and through all manner of monsters and ghosts plucked from Japanese folklore.

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