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Tokyo Vice Book Vs TV Show Review

May 15, 2022 by Matthew Legare Leave a Comment

Tokyo Vice posterTokyo Vice is a crime thriller series currently on HBO Max and based on the memoirs by Jake Adelstein. Set in 1999 Japan, it follows an American reporter working for a Japanese newspaper as he delves deep into Tokyo’s seedy underworld and the criminal kingdom of the yakuza.

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Tagged With: film noir, Japan, noir, TV Series

10 Japanese Film Noir Recommendations

November 14, 2021 by Matthew Legare 2 Comments

Dragnet Girl Japanese noirFilm noir is a tricky thing to define, and some still question whether it’s just a style relying on distinct lighting and shadow play or if it’s a genre unto its own. The term derived from French critic Nino Frank who, in 1946, saw many American crime movies like The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Double Indemnity (1944) for the first time, and dubbed them film noir – black films, both for their heavy use of shadows and dark subject matter.

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Tagged With: film noir, Japan, movie reviews, noir, recommendations

Babylon Berlin Season 3 Review

March 15, 2020 by Matthew Legare 16 Comments

Babylon Berlin returns for a third season, taking us back to the hectic and hedonistic days of 1929 Berlin. This season (or series as the Brits Babylon Berlin Season 3say; staffel fur die Deutschen) follows Detective Gereon Rath and his assistant/sidekick Charlotte Ritter as they investigate the strange murders on a movie set, committed by a mysterious and nightmarish Phantom. With them are enough side characters and subplots to give Deadwood a run for its money.

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Tagged With: Berlin, Conspiracy Thrillers, film noir, Germany, historical fiction, movie reviews, noir, Reviews. Weimar Republic, Thrillers, Weimar Republic

Tokyo Joe (1949) Movie Review

April 24, 2018 by Matthew Legare Leave a Comment

Tokyo Joe combines three of my favorite things: film noir, a historical setting, and political intrigue. It’s a criminally underrated movie and while it’s not Humphrey Bogart’s best, it still deserves to be rediscovered by audiences.

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Tagged With: film noir, Japan, movie reviews, World War II

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