 Dog & Scissors - Episode 1 - Every Dog Has His Day Jul 1st 2013, 19:30 
One day, the young man Harumi Kazuhito is suddenly killed during a robbery. However, through sheer tenacity, the bookworm is resurrected as a dachshund dog. With red eyes and silver scissors in her hand, Natsuno Kirihime, a dark haired sadist clad in completely in black appears before him. Moreover, she understands him as a dog and is his favorite author, Akiyama Shinobu herself...
 |   Arata the Legend - Episode 12 - The Light of Creation Jul 1st 2013, 18:00 
Kadowaki shows up yet again in the midst of Arata's battle with Yorunami. He tells Arata that he became a Sho for the sake of "fighting for submission," but Arata doesn't agree. Regardless, Kadowaki attacks, wielding his Hayagami. The beliefs of Arata and Kadowaki, after crossing two worlds, are about to clash!
 |  Hayate the Combat Butler! Cuties - Episode 12 - I Will Love and Be Loved in My Life Jul 1st 2013, 17:35 
"I have to kiss someone, for Miss Nagi's sake!" As the time limit draws near, Hayate dashes through town looking for someone to kiss! And the Cuties, hoping to help Hayate somehow, are also running all over the place! The days of youth, and the first kiss - two things that everyone treasures. Episode 12 will be the most romantic of them all!
 | | National Security – Review Jul 1st 2013, 00:02 
Calling the film “the most painful experience in my 30 years as a filmmaker,” director Chung Ji-young wanted the audience to reflect on the theme of torture. He said he found the courage to make the film so that Korean viewers will “engage with our sad history and the sacrifices of great people like Kim Geun-tae in a concrete, meaningful way. If we triumph over the past, we can move forward with unity and reconciliation. National Security is unfortunately based on true events. South Koreans have a dark past behind them, and they are terribly good at making movies that leaves traces. National Security is one of those movies. On September 4, 1984, democracy movement leader Kim Jong Tae (Park Won Sang) is arrested and taken to an infamous interrogation facility in Namyeong-dong. For the next 22 days, he would be cruelly and continuously tortured in all manners by interrogators intent on forcing him to confess to communist collaboration. Most of the action takes place in a room where an innocent man is being tortured. The year is 1984, South Korea is a military regime and the man being tortured is accused of being a communist who tries starting a riot in South Korea. He denies it, and then starts the torture. Water Torture is never the same again after you’ve seen what they do to the innocent man in National Security. You get really tired after one hour, but the film runs on only more torture. You have got to not leave traces, so for the torture they used are water and electricity. It feels very realistic, where we see a naked man getting a proper water belly. As with so many other splendid South Korean movies are there, National Security is an important film that thankfully shows progress for the country that will always have a dark shadow hanging over it. 
With more than 40 credits in the past 15 years, Park Won-sang is a veteran actor but he has only recently been claiming the spotlight for himself. He was excellent as the passionate lawyer in Unbowed and clearly Chung was impressed enough with him to cast him again in this difficult role. As a good man trapped in a hopeless situation, Park Won-sang stays true to his unpretentious performance well even when he bravely puts himself into many difficult scenes including the one featuring that notorious waterboarding torture (they even mix red pepper powder into water at one point, by the way), and I sometimes worried about his safety during its production at time even though I knew they made this film with care and caution. Jong-tae's mind sometimes recedes into his memory or hallucination, and that provides a few respites for the audiences although they are not really necessary except providing the background for the hero we worry and care about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYXPQraG0TY This is probably a great film, it is almost not wrong to call National Security a great film, but it is a quality film that is shocking, frightening, very well played and well made. The creeps well below the skin and you will not forget the movie soon. National Security is not a pleasant experience, but this is a hard but engrossing experience for it vividly evokes one of the darkest chapters in the modern South Korean history. In spite of some flaws including the occasional stiff dialogues in the screenplay, the movie effectively and earnestly reminds South Korean audiences how much their society have advanced since that era – and, as revealed in its powerfully resonant ending, how much its painful memories of violence has not been resolved yet.
 | | Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino [Book Review] Jul 1st 2013, 00:02 
Sibling rivalry comes with the territory of having a younger or older, brother or sister. You're morally obligated to drive each other crazy. But at the end of the day you love each other no matter what, right? Those rules don't seem to apply for this no name character and her overly attractive younger sister Yoriko. Born of a Polish father and a full blooded Japanese mother, the main character is a plain girl who is out shined by her younger sister. Feeling threaten and even disgusted by Yoriko's beauty, our anonymous character goes as far as locking her out of the house on a snowy night. When her father's business ceased to succeed in Japan, the main character stays behind living in a small apartment with her bonsai obsessed grandfather, while the rest of the family moves to Switzerland. All is well, she's attending a respectable Q High School for Young Women in Tokyo, she's made friends with another ordinary girl named Kazue, and more importantly she is free from Yoriko. That is until their mother commits suicide, and their father has his pregnant mistress move in. Yoriko relocates back to Tokyo, but because her older sister forbids she live with her and her grandfather, she is forced to move in with close friends of the family. Only down side is, she is now attending the same school. Half of the story takes place many years later, Yoriko and Kazue are found dead. Considering both women are polar opposites, it shocks the police to find out that the two things they have in common are prostitution and their murderer. However, the main character is not surprised one bit, nor is she saddened by Yoriko or Kazue's death. Written in first person narration, you'll get to know every single detail about each character; their hopes, dreams, greatest fears and much more. Having read it twice, Grotesque is no doubt one of my favorite books of all time. I personally believe it to be silver screen worthy. Created by one of Japan's greatest female detective fiction writers, Natsuo Kirino. Back in 2007, the book was finally translated into English, and is rumored that a section in the book was removed because it was deemed too inappropriate for American readers. The book is also roughly based on the 1997 Office Lady Murder in Japan, and lets give the author some serious kudos, apparently she went to visit the actual crime scene. Grotesque is a dark, dirty, and a beautiful poetic masterpiece. You'll find yourself getting sucked into the novel, experiencing the hidden terror inside a prestigious high school for girls, the secret life of prostitution, and even Lolita complex with a hint of incest. With each page flipped, you'll realize the book's title is not meant to be taken lightly.
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