Cult Movie Reviews

Latitude Zero is a 1969 Japanese-American co-production (Toho being the Japanese partners) with a largely American cast. It was directed by...

King Kong Escapes was a Japanese US co-production between Rankin-Bass and Japan’s Toho studio. Made in 1967 it was directed by Ishirô Hond...

In the late 1960s Japan’s Shochiku studio made a short-lived and rather tentative attempt to break into the booming market for science ficti...

Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell ( Kyuketsuki Gokemidoro ), released in 1968, is one of a handful of movies that marked a short-lived and tent...

Criterion’s Eclipse Series 37 DVD boxed set When Horror Came to Shochiku includes four movies made by Shochiku studio in 1967-68 as part of...

Atragon is a 1963 Japanese science fiction movie directed by Ishirô Honda. Ishirô Honda is of course best known as the man who first brough...

King Kong vs Godzilla dates from 1962 and by this time the idea had taken root that one giant monster was not enough. Godzilla was a hug...

Godzilla: Invasion of the Astro-monster is a 1965 entry in the long-running Japanese Godzilla movie series from Toho Studio. I’m not the...

Battle in Outer Space is not one of Ishirô Honda’s most highly regarded movies but it may be his most entertaining work. It really is ex...

Made by Toho Studio in 1958, The H-Man is something of an oddity among Japanese monster movies. There’s a strong hint of film noir to it...