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http://www.pokerindustries.com/
- one of our favourite shopping sites, based in New Jersey, USA-
simply loads of Japanese, HK and Chinese films on DVD and VCD for
your delight and delectation, cheap international shipping and the
famous Poker Coupon which gets you 15% discounts - a top, top
service :-)
http://www.artsmagicdvd.com/
- Online DVD store selling Japanese movies from USD$25 such as Takashi
Miike's Full Metal Yakuza. They're releasing many samurai
yakuza movies for the first time in the US.
http://www.artsmagic.co.uk/EasternCultCinema/
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The UK branch of Artsmagic are releasing films like Uzumaki, Wild
Zero and Junk for the first time in the UK with PAL transfers, English
subtitles and reworked covers - finally no need for a multiregion
DVD player (if you're in Europe, of course...)
http://www.unearthedfilms.com/
- the wonderful guys at Unearthed Films own all the rights to the
Guinea Pig (aka Ginipiggu) series, and have online
sales with international shipping of all the films, plus other classics
like Evil Dead Trap 2 on offer, not to mention a totally
awesome site with streaming trailers, a fabulously gory gallery
and loads more goodies for your bloodthirsty enjoyment!
http://www.tartanvideo.com/
- UK distributors for the likes of Ring, Ring 2,
Ring 0, Battle Royale, Audition and coming
soon - The Eye, Ichi The Killer, City of Lost
Souls, and a Miike Takashi retrospective. Has their own online
shop (note: DVDs maybe Region 2 or Region 0 - check!!!)
http://www.hkflix.com/
- more great DVD's and VCD's, mainly with subs, great service and
a brilliant selection
http://www.yesasia.com/
- mainly for US and Japanese folks, as the international shipping
for other countries is a little fearsome - but an awesome
selection of movies and movie soundtracks (!!! I really
want that Ring original soundtrack !!!) are available for
your shopping delight
http://www.sazuma.com/
- great service and great selection
http://www.orientalfilms.co.uk/
- for all you UK Asian film buffs, here's James Marshall's brilliant
distribution service - basically, if you can't find what you're
looking for, drop him a mail - he will kindly pursue your heart's
desire with the HK distribution companies for you - fantastic service!
http://www.asiancult.com/
- videos, books, magazines and DVDs for all kinds of Asian stuff
- horror, pink eiga, samurai, HK films etc, ships internationally
at good rates too - based in Florida, USA
http://www.dddhouse.com/
- loads of great Asian films, at a good price (don't let
the HK-Dollars scare you, the exchange rate is great!) with international
shipping and a weekly cheap sale - yaaay!
http://www.dvdrama.com/
- if you live in France, this is a great place to search for those
elusive French-formatted movies [French only]
http://www.zoommovie.com
- a great place to pick up your ultra-cheap Japanese/HK VCDs - hooray
for VCD!!!
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http://www.midnighteye.com/
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fantastic news and reviews site for all things Japanese
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/japanesehorror/
- if you enjoy Asian horror films, join max_i_mum_millenium's fantastic
Yahoogroup, chat and exchange news,views and reviews
http://www.neoneiga.it
- the Neo(N)eiga group's absolutely gigantic, completely
overhauled and excellent Japanese contemporary film links
site - be sure to check it out! [Italian only]
http://www.theringworld.com
- well, what can we say about Ringworld, except that it's the original,
and the very best of everything Ring-related - visit it
every single day of your life :-)
http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/movie.shtml
- there's a nice section on Japanese movie history here, along with
a page of short profiles of some top Japanese actors and actresses
http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/asianfilm/japan/
- Purportedly dealing with every film made in Asia since 1998, this
gigantic site features reviews, synopses, image galleries, director
profiles and interviews on virtually every single entry - an absolute
gem
http://www.fjmovie.com/horror/
- the absolutely humongous and essential Japanese Horror Database
- pretty much any film you can think of (and some you can't) are
listed here, with cast and crew details and technical specifics
http://www.kfccinema.com/
- and even more!
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/japan.html
- guess what? There's some more here too!
http://www.bizarreingredients.co.uk/
- Bazz's excellent site featuring loads and loads and loads
of ace Japanese horror review pages, with in-depth reviews, synopses
and super-smart pictures
http://www.jpreview.com/
- Gareth's brilliant Japanese film reviews and news site, featuring
more Asian films than you can literally shake a stick at - visit
here for an essential experience!
http://www.dvdvisionjapan.com/ - DVD Vision Japan have a spectacular amount of reviews and articles about Japanese movies, anime and the whole J-culture experience
http://www.sexgoremutants.co.uk/
- oodles of great reviews of Asian horror movies, but that's
only a drop in the proverbial ocean - this site is jampacked with
loads of fab movie reviews, news, articles, fun stuff and all kinds
of goodness
http://www.destroy-all-monsters.com/
- Asian-American pop culture site, with loads of reviews, news,
features, articles and all kinds of good stuff for your delectation
http://www.tokyoprojekt.com/-
Tokyo Projekt /Japanese Cultural Review is a new site with lots
of news, information and articles, some concerning recent Japanese
horror movies - go check it out
http://www.sanchodoesasia.com/
- Sancho Does Asia reviews site [French only] - brilliant
site, with loads of images and great in-depth reviews
http://www.asianmovieweb.com/ - dual language (English/German) review site
http://www.cinema-repose.com/ - new site with reviews and a podcast!
http://www.mjsimpson.co.ukt/ - MJ Simpson reviews many, many movies and reprints articles of his
http://shinyatsukamoto.info/ - very comprehensive fansite dedicated to director Shinya Tsukamoto, with indepth reviews of his movies and lots of image galleries
http://8tcm.blogspot.com/-
Eight Trees CineMANIA's movie review site, featuring a sub-site
dedicated to Asian movies, with incisive, entertaining reviews and
images
http://www.dighkmovies.com/
- John Charles's comprehensive Asian film reviews site, mainly dedicated
to HK movies but also plenty of reviews of Japanese, Korean, and
Thai films
http://www.kenjisiratori.com/
- Kenji Siratori is a brilliant, young, superhip writer of great
intellectual cyberpunk hypermodern fiction - if you're heavily into
cyberpunk and movies like Tetsuo: The Iron Man and Electric
Dragon 80000V, we would definitely recommend checking
out his work - you can read extracts of his latest book Blood
Electric at his new official site
http://www.deadinhollywood.net/-
has a section on extreme Asian film-making, with some wallpapers
for download
http://www2.shizuokanet.ne.jp/usr/onitsuka/English%20page.html
- Daisuke Onitsuka's very useful and informative page concerning
recent releases by the top Japanese studios Toho, Toei and Shochiku,
with comments about each movie
http://www12.brinkster.com/txtonly/
- our beloved rb is back, with his new site Text-Only,
the world's best collection of Shohei Imamura links, an amazing
English-Ainu dictionary, plus some fab links :)
http://junjiito.mutagene.net/
- Alexis Glass's stunning site dedicated to the master of horror
manga, Junji Ito, packed with news, information and pictures that'll
knock your socks off
http://www.metamovie.de
- Harald's rather marvellous site with oodles of great Asian horror
reviews and lots of interesting pictures [English and German]
http://www.cinemasie.com/
- more Asian horror reviews, this time all in French - you
can also buy films here (French format only)
http://www.horrordirectors.com/asia96-02.html
- Maurice's Horror Directors site, featuring movies
and directors from all over the world, including this rather lovely
page featuring lots of great Asian films, links to reviews, details
on availability and where you can buy the films in question
http://cjms.topcities.com/ - another review website, with an extensive selection of trailers
http://molodezhnaja.ch/japan.htm
- enormous feature-page with loads of short reviews of Japanese
movies [German only]
http://j-fan.com/
- another new site, devoted to all things Japanese - cinema,
music, anime, manga and games
http://www.asiaexpress.it/
- Stefano Locatelli's Asia Express movie site, featuring
all kinds of genre movies, with images and reviews... [Italian only]
http://www.hkx.it/
... and its sister site, Hong Kong Express, dealing with
100% pure HK movies [also Italian only]
http://www.bulletsnbabesdvds.com/
- humongous site dealing with all kinds of Asian movies, featuring
reviews, articles, polls, and a forum
http://www.geocities.com/the444thportal/ - Wilson Tai's dedicated Versus fansite, featuring synopses, galleries, cast details, downloads and links
http://www.nighterror.com/print.php?sid=54
- if you're an Asian horror newbie, you could do worse than
to stop by NighTerror and check their list of stuff to start off
with
http://chiaki-kuriyama.zanlius.com
- fansite dedicated to Chiaki Kuriyama, with lots of pictures, information
and all kinds of goodies
http://www.tadanobuasano.com/
- Tadanobu Asano's official site [English version]
http://www.anore.co.jp/
- and a completely different Japanese-only version of the official
site too!
http://www.pymmik.com/
- Pymmik's great site dedicated to Koji Yakusho and his work, including
loads of images, a complete filmography, reviews and synopses and
everything you could hope to find out about this amazing actor!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/kojiyakushomovies/
- ... and join up to Pym's Yahoogroup to chat and exchange news
and views about Koji Yakusho!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2231589130 - Rachel Schuetz's Junji Ito fan group on Facebook
http://www.ringofdarkwater.tk/- new site devoted to the remakes of Asian extreme movies, but featuring some information about the source material as well
http://yakusho.nifty.com/-
Koji Yakusho's official site [Japanese only]
http://membres.lycos.fr/puremoon/sommaire_entier.htm
- an enormous fansite dedicated to Masanobu Ando, with everything
you could ever hope to find on this great young actor - a really
spectacular site!!! [French only]
http://www.retromonster.com/sho.htm
- more Asian horror reviews here
http://www.asmik-ace.co.jp/profile/index-e.html
- the official Asmik-Ace Corporation site
http://www.long-bridge.co.jp/katoharuhiko/
- Kato Haruhiko's official site
http://www9.big.or.jp/~otona/-
Official site of the Otona Keikaku theatrical group, whose membership features
Sadao Abe of Uzumaki and
Naked Blood: Splatter! fame [Japanese only]
http://www.baubo5.com/asianstuff.html
- Asian Culture and Movie directory at the House
of Baubo
http://www.hkfilm.net/disney/
- apparently Disney are ripping off HK Films, changing
the scores to 'stereotypical Asian music' and dubbing them with
Hollywood actors. Cease and desist!!! Sign the petition and let
Hollywood know how you feel! Oh, the humanity. ;-)
http://www.guineapigfilms.com/
- the official website for the Guinea Pig series, with
lots of reviews, a history of Guinea Pig, pictures from
the films and loads more goodies, as well as online sales with international
shipping
http://www.beardedprawn.co.uk/
- Charles Mann's reviews site, which has a looooooot of mighty fine Asian movie reviews, among lots of other delicious prawny treats ;-)
http://dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Cultures_and_Groups/Japanese/
- our very own Mandi Apple is the editor here, and is working her
socks off to provide a gigantic list of links to Google, Yahoo etc
:-)
http://home.earthlink.net/~steveandrenee/index.html
- huge list of extremely rare and utterly unavailable pre-1980 TV
shows and movies for trade, many of them in both Japanese and English
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http://www.horrorvideo.com/
- no Asian movies, sadly, but if you like old video nasties, and
you are blessed with living in the UK (*lol* note sarcasm), then
these are the chaps for you
http://monsterhunter.coldfusionvideo.com/index.html
- Be sure to stop by and say hi to the Monsterhunter, who has an
amazing review site
http://www.horrorfind.com/
- enormous directory of all things horrific - more horror than you
can shake a stake at
http://www.darkdreams.org/ - Dark Dreams, an enormous site dedicated to the work of horror/giallo maestro Dario Argento
http://www.thevelvetcrypt.com/ - Polly's blog devoted to horror and sci-fi, with reviews, images
and links
http://www.cinema-nocturna.com/ - Reviews of worldwide horror movies
http://www.imdb.com/ - absolutely indispensable with help for our filmographies, and
lots of fab user reviews
http://www.horrordiva.com/ - Gauntgirl's unique feminist angle on horror and all things hideous
http://www.carfax-abbey.com/default.cfm - another horror film database: 560 Films, 1232 Actors, 370 Directors,
1598 Gallery Pics is the current claim by these guys - wow!
http://www.unrated.co.uk/-
fab UK-based extreme cult-cinema magazine with loads of news, reviews,
info and links
http://www.choconado.com/ - a new review site offering excellent quality reviews of all things cult-related and B-Movie
http://www.halonoir.com/ - fantastic company making commission cosplay wear, including Gothic, Lolita, anime-related and fantasy clothing, greatly recommended to fans of all things cosplay
http://www.tshirtzone.co.uk/ - UK horror-flick t-shirts, some nice obscure titles - for those
of you like me who just can't resist buying a Necromantik shirt to offend all your neighbours, friends and relatives with
http://www.nighterror.com/- "Horror movies, dark music, spooky PC Games, greeting cards
and online Make-up F/x help!" - well, what more do you want?!
http://www.insomniacmania.com/-
horror movies and maniac reviews
http://www.rue-morgue.com/ - welcome to the Rue Morgue magazine, with its Cinemortuary,
webstore and spooky events
http://www.essential-cult.com/ - cult film reviews with lots of images by Frederik S Hana
http://www.zombiekeeper.com/- "Horror movie reviews from people who watch horror movies." Quite right too :-)
http://www.creature-corner.com/ - news, reviews, interview and pics galore
http://www.houseofhorrors.com/ - a terror awaits you in every room...
http://www.flipsidemovies.com/ - not only horror, but dedicated to all indie filmmaking, a cause
which we heartly applaud here at Snowblood Apple Towers
http://www.livingdeaddolls.com/ - Mandi Snowblood Apple collects these and currently has something
like 12 of 'em - buy one for your Gran this Christmas ;-)
http://home.swipnet.se/tommybergskold/ - Tommy Bergsköld's great new site, another Ring-addict
and a fun page with lots of links - including Swedish ones!
http://www.blairwitch.com/ - official Blair Witch site. Kinda fun (tho' IMHO Book of Shadows sucked enormously hard)
http://www.zuko.com/weird_and_spooky_places.htm - the real thing (allegedly) - great fun though
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ - we all love 'em, don't we??? "... oh, I have this friend
whose boyfriend's sister knows this girl who heard that dot dot
dot add your own freaky story here etc"...
http://www.snopes2.com/index.html
-...and nearly all of 'em debunked at the legendary Snopes
site
Credits
We would like to thank the following people (in no particular
order) for their immense help, support, constructive criticism and
advice toward the making of Snowblood Apple:
- the awesome J Lopez of Ringworld,
without whom none of this would have been even considered,
let alone made!
- rb of Text-Only
- Alexis Glass from the amazing Mutagene.net
- max_i_mum_millenium, the owner of the Japanese
Horror Yahoogroup where Mandi first starting posting tentative
reviews - join up for some great chat, news, information and gossip!
- Tommy
Bergsköld, one of the nicest people I've ever met!
- Arvid from Ringu-Fan
- Gareth Evans at JP Review
- Rhett Rushing and Stephen Biro from Unearthed
Films
- inteferon from the
viral vestibule
- Pymmik, who has the best Koji
Yakusho site on the planet
- Harald Gruneberger at Metamovie
- Charles Mann at The
Bearded Prawn
- Bazz at Bizarre
Ingredients
- Kat at Panix.com
- Polly Frost at The
Velvet Crypt
.... and anyone else I might have missed: we give you all our eternal
thanks and love :)=
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