I know there's some films made of bunraku performances, but I can't think of any that are part of the plot. a lot more with Noh plays etcfeel like I should mention Thunderbolt Fantasy here, a Japan/Taiwan wuxia puppet TV show created by Gen Urobuchi of Fate/Zero, Madoka Magica, Psychopass etc. fame. it's as daft as it sounds!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:52 (two months ago) link
Shinoda’s Double Suicide uses bunraku as a narrative element iirc
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:06 (two months ago) link
a lot of the bunraku plays themselves seen to involve double suicides (based on the list of 10 or so top chikamatsu whatsisname plays i found online)
the bookseller in the film i watched last week had a bunch of double suicide titles too, i wonder if they were the same ones?
― koogs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:06 (two months ago) link
I watched A Colt Is My Passport the other day: a superb noir with a lot of western (the genre) touches including a very good Morricone-esque soundtrack
― rob, Thursday, 21 March 2024 14:23 (two months 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