Nothing like eating cornflakes and watching a blind masseuse take out a dozen people in a few seconds with a katana hidden in a cane.
― earlnash, Monday, 28 April 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes! Mizoguchi is less known than he should be. Other good films of his are "Sisters of the Gion", "The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums", "Women of the Night", "Miss Oyû", "Tales of Ugetsu", "Gion Festival Music", "The Woman of Rumour" and "The Tale of the Crucified Lovers".
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 06:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Erik, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 06:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 07:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago) link
Toky DecadenceTetsuoTampopoAkiraAudition
Spirited Away hasn't had its official release in Belgium. Waiting.
Jan
― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
Search: Ugetsu, Onibaba, Kwaidan, Audition, DeadorAlive, Battle Royale, Tetsuo, Tokyo Fist, Electric Dragon 80000, Angel Dust, Ringu, Blind Beast, Tokyo Drifter, Sonatine, Hana-bi, Afterlife, Hole in the Sky, In the Realm of the Senses, Tampopo, Throne of Blood, Bullet Ballet, Uzumaki, and random Godzilla films i liked as a child.
there should be more Kurosawa, Miyazaki and Ozu and stuff but they somehow don't fall as much into my "canon". maybe i am just being contrarian.
Still must see: Dark Water, Love & Pop, Gemini, Happiness of the Katakuris, A Snake of June, Juon, Eureka, Cure, Tokyo Decadence, Branded to Kill
― Honda (Honda), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
Akira Kurosawa is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time! The 'Baby Cart' series are AMAZING! The Godzilla films from the 60s (especially) are great fun with tremendous scope photography and set design and modern Japanese cinema has belched out such instant classics as 'Audition', 'Tokyo Fist', 'Uzumaki', 'Hypnosis' and 'Dark Water'. I saw 'Inugami' last week and it has style for sale! Man, they know how to make a film look good in Japan.
Kill this thread. I mean, whatever next - Hong Kong cinema, a load of shit or wot???!!!???!!!
― Calum, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 23:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:58 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
― dean gulberry (deangulberry), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 17:29 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 19:35 (twenty years ago) link
Note for people who haven't seen Afterlife, the Ritzy is showing as its world cinema matinee all week from Friday. 1-ish I think, £3 a pop. I am ver ver tempted to go see again.
― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 11:18 (twenty years ago) link
"bright future" was pretty good.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 January 2004 01:10 (twenty years ago) link
because we were yammering about stuff and it was really, really gross.
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 January 2004 01:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 January 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 24 January 2004 10:24 (twenty years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 24 January 2004 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Eriik, Saturday, 24 January 2004 13:53 (twenty years ago) link
although i guess the dancing is foreshadowed a few times
that film left me pretty cold overall
― amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 26 January 2004 11:21 (twenty years ago) link
anyone for Hiroshi Teshigahara?
http://www.bfi.org.uk/showing/nft/teshigahara/calendar/index.php
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Will def see 'rikyu' the following week.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Sunday, 18 July 2004 23:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I found UB at Borders this weekend, but haven't had a chance to watch it.
― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 18 July 2004 23:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 20 July 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 26 July 2004 18:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Suicide Circle/Club is genius, yes - but is it any better than Uzumaki? I think not, although for non-horror material Wild Zero is about as good as it gets.
Someone on this thread might know... I've managed to pick up a fantran of the second Ringu TV series (Saishuushou/'The Final Chapter') - has anyone ever seen a subbed version of either the first (Ring: Kanzenban, admittedly only a one-off rather than a series) or third series (Rasen: The Series)?
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 07:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link
director mentioned upthread:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7943-1342630,00.html
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 4 November 2004 21:22 (nineteen years ago) link
xp yeah the film is a bunraku adaptation
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:21 (two months ago) link
Colt Is My Passport very good yeah, def the highlight of that criterion Nikkatsu set
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 22 March 2024 11:05 (two months ago) link
Samurai Wolf I & II. was expecting generic samurai stuff but there was a style to them that raised them above. this was post Fistful of Dollars ('66 and '67) and had obviously taken some cues from that (which, yeah, had itself taken cues from Yojimbo). pleasantly surprised.
i think the only other Gosha i have is Three Outlaw Samurai, his first, and the various others that are available are Yakuza based but I'll see.
in the meantime i have Ju-On and Sister Streetfighter on the way from arrow, to mix things up a bit.
― koogs, Monday, 27 May 2024 13:53 (three weeks ago) link
Hideo Gosha is great, he reminds me of a Budd Boetticher or Phil Karlson - unpretentious artisan working in genre cinema whose sensibilities just happen to line up perfectly with his subject matter. Aside from the Samurai Wolf films I've also seen Sword Of The Beast (which was on Criterion) and his masterpiece, Goyokin (which I had to track down on a dodgy dvd). The only yakuza film I've seen of his is Violent Streets, a bit more outré than the swordplay stuff but well worth seeing.
One thing you can find in every one of his movies is the kind of hatred of authority that only a guy who lived through something like Imperial Japan could develop.
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 27 May 2024 14:49 (three weeks ago) link
I caught Evil Does Not Exist on AppleTV and thought it was better than Drive My Car!
Maybe Hamaguchi needs his own thread?
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Monday, 27 May 2024 16:00 (three weeks ago) link
a Ryûsuke Hamaguchi thread for all your Hamaguchi chat
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 27 May 2024 16:08 (three weeks ago) link
i have a lot of these now, but they are still releasing new-to-me films that are great. Imai's Revenge (or Vengeance, it seems to have 4 names). looked lovely and that final duel...
written by Shinobu Hashimoto who also did Seven Samurai, Rashomon, Throne of Blood, Harakiri...
think this is the first Imai film i have too (although the imdb page has mostly Japanese names, which probably means limited Western release)
― koogs, Saturday, 15 June 2024 17:26 (three days ago) link
(the other thing I've noticed is that the last 7 or so purchases, from Arrow or Eureka, have all been Toei films)
― koogs, Saturday, 15 June 2024 17:38 (three days ago) link
I recently enjoyed Imai's remarkable Tower of Lilies, telling the grim wartime story of the Himeyuri students.
― Kim Kimberly, Saturday, 15 June 2024 17:40 (three days ago) link
that got a mention in the extras, yes. Bushido was the only other dvd that came up in a search, but the mini-doc had plenty of clips of things.
― koogs, Saturday, 15 June 2024 17:56 (three days ago) link
and A Story Of Pure Love (1957) is on the list of nuclear films in the doc that accompanied Hiroshima recently.
― koogs, Saturday, 15 June 2024 17:58 (three days ago) link