COVER:
Japanese model / actress Miki Sho
EDITORIAL by Thomas Weisser
LETTERS with commentary by the editor
ARTICLE &
REVIEWS:
ACC REPORT: FILM,
NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ASIA
Asian Economic Depression & Cinema · Japan·s Top Ten
Box Office For 1997 · Nippon Movie Awards Annual Kinema Jumpo Best
Of 1997 · Butterfly Knife Copy-Cat Killings
by Thomas Weisser
ICHIHO MUTSUDA
REVISITED pictorial
FOREIGN CRIMES
a column by Max Allan Collins
FILMS & SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE
OF DAVID LAM
a profile by Tony Williams
WHORE AND THE POLICEWOMAN
by Ray Ranaletta
MEN OF IRON: THE IRON CHEF
by Wyatt Doyle
THE ORIGINAL ULTRA MAN
by August Ragone
THE VIOLENT PINK
FILMS OF YASUHARU HASEBE
·ASSAULT! JACK THE RIPPER · RAPE! · 13TH HOUR ·
ATTACK!
by Thomas Weisser & Yuko Mihara Weisser
with supplementary material:
RAPE!
a review by Chris Vaillancourt
ALLEYCAT ROCK
a review by Richard Kadrey
SEX HUNTER
a review by Gerard Alexander
KEI FUJIWARA: an interview
with the director of ORGAN
by Maki Hamamoto
CLOSING COMMENTS ON KEI FUJIWARA
by Maki Hamamoto
LAM CHANG YING
by Darryl Yamashita
SEMINAL
FILMS OF TSUI HARK
by Jeff Goodhartz
ABOUT JOHN WOO by John
Woo
RIC & INFAMOUS
by Ric Meyers
SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY
a review by Steve Puchalski
BACK COVER: Korean
actress Yung Myung-Jung from LAST TANGO IN SEOUL