Galgameth [The Legend of Galgameth] (1996)

Sometimes the story behind a film is far more interesting than the film itself. That was definitely the case with the North Korean film, Pulgasari. When his ex-wife, Choi Eun-hee, disappeared while on a trip to Hong Kong, South Korean director Shin Sang-ok was upset that he was being blamed for her disappearance and went

The First Phoenix…

In a recent review over on the other half of this site, I talked quite a bit about the legendary Japanese manga pioneer and animator, Osamu Tezuka, and his masterpiece, the epic, unfinished, twelve-story arc Hi no Tori (The Phoenix). I focused on the 1980 anime based loosely on his story which he created, although