CONTENTS

FRONT COVER: "Female Super Heroes of Japan" by Yuko Mihara Weisser
EDITORIAL by Thomas Weisser
LETTERS with commentary by the editor

ARTICLE & REVIEWS:

ACC REPORT: FILM, NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ASIA
Linnea Quigley and ACC · Arnold Causes Trouble For Japanese Big Boss · Nippon Movie Awards: Annual Kinema Jumpo Best For 1998 · Beat Takeshi Kitano Snu
by Thomas Weisser

BLOOD SPATTERED HERO IN HOLLYWOOD
by Wyatt Doyle

THE CORRUPTOR: A DIFFERENCE OF OPINION
by Anthony Leong and Jerome C Morris

THE 15 MINUTE INTERVIEW WITH S&M GURU ONIROKU DAN AT NAOMI TANI·S PARTY
by Maki Hamamoto

FEMALE SUPER HEROES IN JAPAN
a pictorial by Yuko Mihara Weisser

ASIAN ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE: REANIMATED ORIENTAL DEAD THINGS
by Graham R Lewis
LIVING DEAD IN TOKYO BAY
an essay by Linnea Quigley

ROBERT TAI: KUNG FU·S WILD MAN
by Jeff Goodhartz

FOREIGN CRIMES
by Max Allan Collins

EROTIC JOURNEY: WOMEN IN PRISON FILMS
an article by Ray Ranaletta

MONSTERS ARE ATTACKING TOKYO
book review by Jon Longhi

RIC & INFAMOUS column by Ric Meyers

THE ULTRA TRIP: VISITING WITH THE MEN WHO MAKE ULTRAMAN
by August Ragone

BACK COVER: Cutei Suzuki from BATTLE GIRL: TOKYO CRISIS WAR