Contents Asian Cult Cinema Report: Film, News and Gossip. Evil Dead Trap: LA Premiere, Celebrities and photos


Blood Splattered hero in Hollywood: Bride of Chucky, Sammo Hung in Martial Law, Wife To Be Sacrificed walk-out, Bruce Willis drunk ion Japan.


Majin: Life in Medieval Japan before Godzilla.


Masaru Konuma: interview with Nikkatsu's most notorious director.


Kate Asabuki: A pictorial.


Cure: A compelling crime-thriller from Japan.


Lady Poisson: An essay by Gary O Cohen.


Meditation on loss: a framework for the films of Wong Kar Wai.


Akira Kurosawa: Reign of The Emperor.


Foreign crimes: Max Allen Collins discusses Asian films.


Bollywood or Bust: Zor.


Chu Yin-Ping: HK cinema's neglected bizarre genius.

Contents

Contents

Female Super Heroes of Japan.

Linnea Quigley on Asian Zombie Films.

interview with S&M Guru Oniroku Dan.

Hong Kong's "Women in Prison" Movies.

Contents Asian Cult Cinema Report: Hiroyuki Okita, Kate Asabuki, Facing Death book,


Men Behind The Sun: Political exploitation at it's worst.


Sukeban Deka: Yo-Yo's and Japanese School Girls Crimefighters. Articles Written by Deka Girls Yui Asaka and Yuka Ohnishi.


Sammo Hung's Greatest Hits: His top ten fight scenes.


Jimmy Wang Yu: A tribute to his career.


Big Monster Pulgasari: What separates Pulgasari from the usual Asian monster romp is a production history that's more interesting than the finished product.


Commercialism and Shaolin Temple.

Contents ACC Report: Film, News and Gossip Ultraman Shows His Penis, Mission Barrabas: Church of the Yakuza, Golden Harvest: In or Out, Nagisa Oshima Is Back.


Blood Splattered Hero in Hollywood by Wyatt Doyle


Two New Hong Kong Thrillers by Graham R Lewis


Tribute to Ti Lung by Tony Williams


The Cultural Context of Rouge by Anthony Leong


Ric & Infamous by Ric Meyers


Special Feature: Yasuharu Hasebe Blood Wedding: Assault! Jack The Ripper by Jack kechum, interview with Yasuharu Hasebe by Thomas & Yuko Weisser, Director Hasebe Talks abut Starlets.


Riki-Oh by Jerry White


Report on New Takeshi Kitano Film: Summer of Kikujiro by Maki Hamamoto


Foreign crimes by Max Allan Collins


Jackie Chan's Greatest Hits by Jeff Goodhartz


Hollywood or Bust: My Memoirs of America by Kate Asabuki (plus pictorial)