Showing: 16/04/08

Sukiyaki Western Django: A 2007 Japanese film by Takashi Miike. The English language Western is a remake of Sergio Corbucci's "Spaghetti Western" Django.

The fast-paced action is well staged on a set that borrows from both western and samurai traditions; Miike mixes both good old gunplay (a Gatling gun thats housed in the original films iconic coffin) and martial arts swordplay, which intermingle cohesively until the last fight. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of Miikes western is his decision to use a Japanese cast to speak English. Supported by English subtitles, its a peculiar choice that at first feels like a novelty, only to fade into the films absorbing environment. Sukiyaki Western Django feels very much like a genuine western, and with it Miike demonstrates his mastery of working a genre film until it becomes a creation of his very own.

Typhoon: A pirate armed with nuclear waste threatens to put the wind up North and South Korea in this Korean action thriller

July, 2004 - an American vessel in South Korean waters is brutally attacked and all the crew are slain. The man responsible is Myung-Shin Choi (Dong-Kun), otherwise known as 'Sin', a modern-day pirate who's after the secret US defence hardware that's being transported on board the ship. Sent to track him down is Special Ops Officer Gang Se-Jong (Jung-Jae Lee), who swiftly discovers the theft of the hardware was only so that Sin could carry off a major deal with the Russian Mafia.