FRONT
COVER: Beat Takeshi Kitano
at Venice International Film Festival
EDITORIAL by
Thomas Weisser
LETTERS with commentary by the editor
ARTICLE &
REVIEWS: ACC REPORT:
FILM, NEWS AND GOSSIP FROM ASIA
Theaters In Japan · Cinema In HK Since The Takeover ·
Lights On In Malaysia · Beat Takeshi Kitano Wins In Venice ·
Results Of The Venice Film Festival · Japanese Films Are Coming
To America · Stanley Tong And Mr Magoo · Michelle Khan·s
Instant Success · Everybody Wants To Work With John Woo ·
China: Is The Giant Really Asleep·
by Thomas Weisser
FOREIGN CRIMES
a column by Max Allan Collins
CUTTING EDGE: RAM GOPAL
VARMA
by Pete Tombs
TOSHIHARU IKEDA: INTERVIEW
by Maki Hamamoto
IKEDA FILMOGRAPHY with
COMMENTARY JAPAN·S GREATEST HORROR FILM: EVIL DEAD TRAP
by Graham R Lewis
MANY FACES OF NAOMI KAWASHIMA
pictorial by Francine Dali & Tatsuo Watanabe
RIC & INFAMOUS by
Ric Meyers
WHO WILL EVER KNOW· ANGEL
GUTS: RED DIZZINESS
by Steve Puchalski
BRUCE LI: AN APPRECIATION
by Darryl Pestilence
RUBY FRUIT: LESBIAN VAMPIRES
by Wyatt Doyle
CYNTHIA ROTHROCK: BLONDE
FURY
a career profile by Tony Williams
LAM
CHANG YING: REST IN PEACE FEMALE ASSASSINS
by Ray Ranaletta
SUNFLOWERS ON THE BEACH
by Chris Vaillancourt
KITANO·S HANA-BI
by Tom Weisser & Yuko Mihara Weisser
BACK COVER: Naomi
Kawashima from Toshiharu Ikeda's
THE KEY