Nekoneko’s Movie Litterbox!!

It’s Friday, and as your Favorite Catgirl Princess promised, a new Review….just for you!

This time out it’s “The Unseeable” aka “เปนชู้กับผ”ี or “Pen Choo Kub Pee” , the latest from Wisit Sasanatieng, director of “Tears of the Black Tiger” the famously weird Thai Western released on Region 1 DVD this last Month by Magnolia Pictures. The screenplay was written by Kongkiat Khomsiri, one of the “Ronin Team” also credited with directing the 2005 Thai horror film “Art of the Devil 2″ aka “ลองของ” or “Long khong”. That alone got me all excited, as it was one of the creepiest, most gruesome takes on Asian Witchcraft since the old Shaw Brothers films of the 70’s.

Now you all know how Mistress Neko loves her spooky lil’ ghost stories, so of course I awaited this one with the kind of impatience that drives me to near insanity……..but when it finally came out on DVD, the Thai distributors, in the way they often do, chose NOT to include any English subtitles…..at all……I was crushed!!

But….after much searching, I discovered that Singapore often releases Thai films and other foreign releases there with English subs included…..seems to be the language of choice for their multi-ethnic, multilingual population. Much joy as I was able to find an excellent DVD source there to catch this one and several others I had despaired of ever seeing…….

So…by now you all wanna know whats this one about, and is it worth all my goofy efforts to obtain?

Read on, fellow DV’ers and find out!

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Well, it’s been some time since yours truly had the opportunity to post here, so I thought I’d take the time to write up a review on a nifty lil’ Korean Anime that came in the mail just this week and that I just finally managed to watch last evening.

Yep….that’s right….this lil’ Catgirl said honest to goodness KOREAN ANIME…… not the stuff from Japan, but a reasonably nice imitation from the land whose animation industry is primarily known for its mass produced TV shows like “The Simpsons”, “Family Guy”, and other such TV ilk. If you’ve been paying attention to Korean Cinema in the last few years, then you know that it’s really come along to the point where it rivals and even at times surpasses its rivals in the area of Production, Story, and general Innovation, so it’s nice to see that they are ready to step up to the plate in the area of animation as well.

Have Japan’s Anime Studios got anything to worry about from “Yobi, The Five Tailed Fox”? Well dear people, you’ll just have to read on and find out……….

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