Ryo Shinagawa

Insumasu o ouu Kage (1992)

Honorable Mention I have to admit that the idea of a Japanese Lovecraft adaptation seems rather a curious notion, even if I did watch Ryo Shinagawa’s excellent, if rather strange, almost-animated Lovecraft anthology. It isn’t that the Japanese haven’t made plenty of horror films, it is instead a question of the very distinctive style of […]

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H.P. Lovecraft’s Dunwich Horror and Other Stories [H.P. Lovecraft no Dunwich Horror Sonota no Monogatari] (2007)

I’m not sure you can really call this one an “animated film.” Well, the little puppet characters do move at times — or so it seems But most of the time they just stand there. In fact, a surprising amount of the movement in this film is accomplished with cuts, or camera movements, or something […]

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