Marc Walkow

Heroine chic: new books from Arrow offer information about live-action and anime classics that were previously unavailable in English

(Nacho Vigalondo, Canada, Neon, Opens April 7)

Rosaries and broadswords: a sizable portion of the Shochiku star director's output is now available for binge-watching

VHS classicks: the tape trade finds its way onto Amazon and Netflix with gems from the '80s to today

Deadlier than the male: a golden harvest of streamable films with fearless women

Unknown quantity: rediscovering a Japanese director's masterful and subtly critical studio films

Land of 10,000 dances: Japan's unheralded genre, the musical film came in all shapes, sizes, colors, and tones

The making of a badass: the confluence of talent that created Japanese cinema’s fierce ice queen

Free jazz: looking at some of the Nikkatsu auteur's lesser-known (but characteristically manic) films

Battles with masculinity: the films of Ken Takakura and Bunta Sugawara, rarely screened outside of Japan, get their due in an NYAFF tribute

The iconoclastic, independent auteur discusses his adaptation of the antiwar classic Fires on the Plain, screening in Film Comment Selects

Two films by Sion Sono receiving theatrical runs at the Film Society of Lincoln Center follow individuals down into their own private hells