Why are Japanese films so terrible?

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Well Mothra was the biz, remember those weird little girls with their mesmeric siren song, hey were kick ass. & Gojira = o'course KLASSICK w/ 2 Ks. I don't know any modern jap fillums tho, i am the least movie-enthusiast-like creature on these 10 planets.

― duane, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Mabarosi = gratest film of all time (abt how losing yr loved ones to death equals OK really and no big deal)

Gojira movie feat.Smog Monster (Jap version) = second gratest film of all time. At one point they convene a MAJOR ROCK CONCERT ATOP A MOUNTAIN to dispel the demons of pollution, you think ver kidz are going to save the universe god that's lame, but ROCK CONCERT FAILS!! Only a jumping man in a rubbish rubber suit will do!!

― mark s, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

weird little girls = THE PEANUTS!!

― mark s, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

what do you people think of Akira Kurosawa?

― lady die, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Sonatine is a classic. Ring is pretty good too.

― tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

But Ring 2 really drops the ball. Time Out are so wrong about the Ring films. The first one is a good idea, and executed pretty well - albeit the entire middle section being pointless fluff. That's a one hell of a scary eye.

Ring 2 fails to capitalise on the idea of the first film, and ends up in some sort of no mans land of schlocky pseudo horror. Pity. I hear Ring 0 (the prequel) is appalling too.

I of course rather like some Japanese films - and think After-Life is genius. I am looking forward to Battle Royale with more than a bit of interest.

― Pete, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Kurasowa - classic until he entered venerable old age and got told too often he was a genius by US movie brats (eg 'Ran'. 'Kagemusha' etc. = ponderous guff). Yasujiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Nagisa Oshima the true kings of Japanese art cinema. Also, 'Babycart' series (aka 'Lone Wolf and Cub' or 'Shogun Assassin') the best ultraviolence ever.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Violent Cop = true nihilistic poem.

Tokyo Fist = best.film.ever

followed by 7 Samurai

― Omar, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Were the Gamera films Japanese or Korean?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Well, I like Ran a lot. Some people might say I'm into ponderous guff (I like Koyaanisqatsi and 2001 a lot) but I think Ran has a lot of beautiful shots (ex. the burning castle), tension, and unpredictability for something that I knew ahead of time was based on King Lear. The couple of 60s Kurosawa films I've seen, Yojimbo and Sanjuro, are friggin Classic. Great, *fun*, not-stupid action/adventure. I believe his last film was called Dreams; watched some of it, looked like ponderous guff...didn't watch much, though, admittedly. I also watched Ingmar Bergman's Dreams, which was prob the *least* ponderous guff of his...

Didn't get much outta Violent Cop at all. He was a violent cop though, truth in titling there...

Godzilla vs Smog Monster, liked that one a bunch back in the day. The kids on the mountain were playing surf music on psychedelic Fenders, right?

― Chris, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Yes, the pore deluded fools. US version = not as totally way out odd as Japanese version, however. The Smog Monster and his sexy sister Judy star in Gary Panter's comic Jimbo.

― mark s, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Great Japanese films: "Akira", any Kurosawa film I've seen, "Audition" (the scariest film ever made)

Quite Good: "Ghost In The Shell", "Branded to Kill" (or is it "Branded to Thrill"? I mean the one with the hitman who is sexually aroused by the smell of cooking rice), "Violent Cop" (if only for the ending), "Ring" (not as scarey as people say, especially not on my tiny computer screen)

Pants, but bizarre non western pants (and therefore nevertheless interesting): "Roujin-Z" (see robotic beds fight!)

― The Dirty Vicar, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Have to see Gohatto when I get back from France. After-Life is the bomb and I'm totally immune to the horror genre.

― suzy, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Perfect Blue is great too, if I remember correctly. Haven't seen Ring 2 yet, but loved the first one because it was so silly.

― Paul Strange, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Tampopo by Juzo Itami has to be seen to be believed. I hate to use the word meditation about a movie (coz it's so pretentious), but hey it's a meditation on cooking noodles, sex and the pursuit of an ideal. If nothing else it's the best movie I know about noodle cooking.

― Billy Dods, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Ikinai is easily the wittiest mass-suicide attempt I've seen in a while.

What about when Godzilla does the highland fling? That was funny! Ha ha ha!

― He's Not Here, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Anyone here seen Eureka? Surely the best thing I've seen in years, and the best 4-hour film I can think of. Plus -- even if you don't like Jim O'Rourke -- contains one of the most effective film/song convergences I've ever come across.

― Nitsuh, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

the eel

― anthony, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Tampopo was [mildly] notorious for the kiss-the-egg-gloop scene, no? That fillum was generally considered (generally = me) to be the Japanese 9-1/2 Weeks. ('Cept obv. better cuz didn't feature twunts Mickey Rourke & Kim Basinger. Or Joe Cocker.)

― AP, Friday, 3 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

11 months pass...

Nit*uh - Eureka possibly the greatest film ever? Well, close. Close to Ratcatcher for beautiful cinematography. If I wasn't starting work tomorrow (no thanks to you Alang) I'd go and watch it right now. I wish I could say something more interesting - you ever feel so strongly about something that you wish people who you admire would go see it? Well I feel this way about Eureka. (And all those Scottish books on that old thread I revived.)

You've made my day Ni*tsuh.

― david h(0wie), Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

And - The Eel is good too. Quite like Eureka in its second half sombre introspection. Also good: In The Realm of the Senses.

― david h(0wie), Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Yep, lots of good suggestions here, except no one has mentioned Kon Ichikawa. An Actor's Revenge is a masterpiece. Annoyingly, after seeing this maybe ten years ago I have kept an eye open for a chance to see more by him, without luck.

― Martin Skidmore, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Battle royale! Come on!

― Matt, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Just saw Rintaro's "Metropolis" at the IFF, & I haven't felt like glomping a movie in years (well, two). One of the best cities-as- protagonist, & I have a weak spot for at least four of the characters. Also, the obligatory apocalypse was very, very pretty. & so sad, (cry).

Kurosawa a stunning director - I think I've sought out & seen more films by him than anyone else. "Ikiru"'s my favourite - heh, it's a shame the west tends to get fixated on his period pieces (which are also amazing, but still) . . .

I'm surprised that Yasujiro Ozu isn't more well known (well, he's known but he's revered at home) outside Japan- "Tokyo Story" & "Umarete Wa Mita Keredo" (usually translated as either "Although I Was Born . . . " or "I Was Born But . . .") convey some vague, terrifying humanity (& the latter is the best film-from-perspective- of-small-child made, probably).

(& the usual suspects - "Akira", "Princess Mononoke", "Ghost In The Shell", & the two "Tetsuo" films seethe).

― Ess Kay, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Martin, you are in luck since in August the NFT are running a Kon Ichikawa season - pretty much all his films. I'll certainly be picking up a couple.

― Pete, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

what did david h mean about no thanks to me?? (sorry, if i've forgotten something terribly important)

I STILL HAVEN'T SEEN PRINCESS MONONOKE. Is there/has there been showings of his new film yet? (something like "wandering spirits" - can't recall right now)

― Alan T, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Haha, sorry Alan - just I'm starting at Bishopbriggs HarperCollins distribution division and I remember vaguely jokingly chiding you into harrying internals into rushing my application through. Nothing serious meant by it obv.

― david h(0wie), Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ooh, thanks Pete - I shall look into this ASAP.

And Ozu makes it hard for me to remember if I've seen a particular film, since every other one is called 'Late Spring' or 'Early Autumn' or 'That Bit Just Before Winter When All The Leaves Have Finally Fallen But It's Not That Cold Yet' or something like that.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

have you ever seen mizoguchi´s 'sansho dayu', "street of shame' or 'life of oharu'? what about naruse´s 'when a woman ascends the stairs' or ozu´s 'tokyo story'? are you familiar with shindo´s 'robo no ishii' or kitano´s 'kids return'?
calling japanese films terrible is terrible wrong!

― michael zZzz, Sunday, 6 October 2002 06:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

By the way, I saw 8 or 9 of the Ichikawa films in that season. None of them was as magnificent as An Actor's Revenge, but all of them were strange and wonderful films. Ten Dark Women may have been the pick of the bunch, I think.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 09:58 (10 years ago) Permalink

Takeshi's films i like. haven't seen any works from any other directors.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

Were the Gamera films Japanese or Korean?

I dunno, but it's kinda irrelevant, considering the universality of their wonderful theme song:

You are groovy Gamera
groovy, groovy Gamera

Betcha that Rock concert to stop pollution would've worked if they'd played that!

― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 6 October 2002 13:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

Kurasawa's Dode'skaden = classic
Is Rashomon Kurasawa? i think so, well another great one there.

is anyone familiar with Terayama's cinematic output?
(Emperor Tomatoketchup, where children rule the world and have grown ups as there slaves, and Throw away your books, go out into the streets! which is like a japanese Brecht protest film)

― erik, Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, we've been eating GA-ME-RA!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:17 (10 years ago) Permalink

Rashomon was the Kurosawa that brought him to the attention of the west, for whatever that is worth. Still the best rain scenes ever.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:56 (10 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

I saw Gohatto last night and loved it. I think I love Takeshi for all the reasons most people hate him (see Pete's initial post). I have Cruel Story Of Youth to watch tonight. *excited*

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:43 (10 years ago) Permalink

The Zaticoichi, The Blind Samurai film series are quite fun. IFC has been showing one every Saturday morning for months and I check out one from time to time.

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

Is the pacing annoyingly slow in english-dubbed anime films' dialogue sequences because japanese speech takes longer than english or am I imagining things?

― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:25 (10 years ago) Permalink

Cruel Story of Youth is fucking incredible. Watch for the scene with the apple.

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:18 (10 years ago) Permalink

have you ever seen mizoguchi´s 'sansho dayu', "street of shame' or 'life of oharu'?

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

;; I saw SPIRITED AWAY yesterday. finally.

― Erik, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 06:53 (10 years ago) Permalink

what everyone else said + kiyoshi kurosawa.

― brian badword (badwords), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 07:03 (10 years ago) Permalink

Can someone name a particularly good japanese monster
movie I watched once that starred a giant human
that battled monsters? "Adventures of" may have
been in the title, and the power rangers bit his look.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:08 (10 years ago) Permalink

Mizoguchi is the greatest director ever to walk the earth -- don't get me started.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:28 (10 years ago) Permalink

I thought I was a Mizoguchi fan, a bit, but I confess I've not seen his giant monster movies.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

The poignant tale of Mothra's young daughter, who is forced to become the mistress of a petty-bourgeois shop owner to support her younger sister. Soon, the shop owner dies and Mothrita is taken in by a brutal pimp. After she is beaten by the pimp, she returns to her sister and despairs of the plight of female Mothrites.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:00 (10 years ago) Permalink

Ah, yeah, of course. I saw that years ago, before any of you. I just forgot it for a minute.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:40 (10 years ago) Permalink

Some of my fave Japanese movies:

Toky Decadence
Tetsuo
Tampopo
Akira
Audition

Spirited Away hasn't had its official release in Belgium. Waiting.

Jan

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:57 (10 years ago) Permalink

i love japanese films

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 (10 years ago) Permalink

Iron Man Tetsuo owns this thread for sucking and being totally awesome at the same time.

― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

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> his outrage that Geishas weren't seen as prostitutes

mizoguchi's outrage? that not the impression i got from the various intros to the dvds i've seen which seemed to say he was sympathetic. i think we covered this upthread.

― koogs, Saturday, 20 October 2012 09:36 (7 months ago) Permalink

Just went back to the posts. That article I linked to he calls hs last film Red Light District. My impression is enforced by watching his non-Geisha films, so in the Crucified Lovers the male lover stresses that he would never spend money on a Geisha. Not that he was utterly "correct" as in later on, when discussing the random lovers as they are paraded for their punishment he responds to accusations that the law is on the side of men by saying they broke the law.

From the posts upthread he might have been conflicted but all I saw were bits of not too subtle rage: Geishas were a relic of the past that somehow survived for the pleasures of men, and for tourism (the head former Geisha (in A Geisha compares their partic form of Geishadom to the Japenese tea ceremony). And I observed that disgust Mizoguchi manages to insert in many of his films in the way (usually older) men grope women.

I've yet to find any sympathy but as I said I'll watch a few more of these..

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 20 October 2012 10:38 (7 months ago) Permalink

afaik mizoguchi's sister was a geisha and helped pay for his education (or some such)

― bryan "radical" ferry (clouds), Saturday, 20 October 2012 12:17 (7 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

any of these titles familiar?

Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960–1984

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/films/1337

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:39 (5 months ago) Permalink

Pitfall and Death by Hanging both pretty well-known, tho I haven't seen either.

― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:47 (5 months ago) Permalink

Oh yeah, Oshima -- may have seen that, in fact. Also have read about The Man Who Left His Will on Film.

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:52 (5 months ago) Permalink

FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES and PITFALL are perhaps slightly better known in Europe than in the US, thanks to their release on Region 2 DVD. The former is properly kaleidoscopic and polymorphously peverse, and allegedly influenced some of the decor in Clockwork Orange; the latter is the first collaboration between Hiroshi Teshigahara and Kobo Abe (and Takemitsu) before they went on to make Woman of the Dunes, and is a bit more 'leftist' (socially realist) than the Matsumoto. Both are well worth catching, imho (as are lots of the others, I'm sure - Oshima, Shindo and Imamura are normally pretty reliable, no? )

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:53 (5 months ago) Permalink

thx. I also missed that they just have the first 2 weeks of titles posted....

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:04 (5 months ago) Permalink

Missed that the nutty Funeral Parade is part of the lineup.

― Bobby Ken Doll (Eric H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:08 (5 months ago) Permalink

that Mishima film is kinda disturbing to watch if you know how he died later on

― ばかざっぴ (zappi), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:14 (5 months ago) Permalink

I think that's the first thing most ppl know about him...

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

There was an ATG season at the BFI last year, but this is a different slice, w/a short-film prog and a couple of films from the 80s, past the point at which the ATG is seem to be a significant force (but hey it was tough for everybody in the 80s so I've heard)

Anyway I saw Pandemonium and if Funeral Parade... will always be the Matsumoto film this overlong-ish adaptation of this Kabuki play has a lot of style and verve to go along with the violence. Love the shots of people running around with those lanterns late at night.

Seen both of the Oshima films: Death by Hanging is a must, takes his whole rage at the xenophobic treatment of Korean citizens by the Japanese authorities to a peak (he made a couple of other films on that subject) by also aligning it with an attack at the Japanses judiciary and the conformist mindset. The Man Who Left his Will.. is one you can look at as Oshima's lament for cinema as revolutionary/the confusion of youth in '68, so in some ways a sad film.

Masao Adachi is an interestinng figure. He joined the Palestinian camps in 1970 (shortly after that film was completed, I think it was after the Cannes film fest) and stayed in and around for years, only returning to Japan and any filmmaking a few years ago. Spent time in jail for all sorts of er activites. I could watch his film right now tbh.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:35 (5 months ago) Permalink

Just to correct the above he left Japan around '74.

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 17:47 (5 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Ikiru (1952). superb.

― koogs, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:22 (5 months ago) Permalink

i would really like to see some more recent japanese films

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:25 (5 months ago) Permalink

new aoyama seems to be some MOR drama thing

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:26 (5 months ago) Permalink

new kore-eda bluray is on the internet but no subtitles

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:26 (5 months ago) Permalink

(also, and this is possibly an aside, hmv have a bunch of cheap anime at the moment, for £3 and up. 2 different Dead Space (the video game) things, Appleseed, Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Origin, Van Helsing, a Ghost in the Shell thing?, er, Astro Boy)

― koogs, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:38 (5 months ago) Permalink

i have hulu plus and am regularly daunted by the amount of japanese films they have. would love to spend a weekend just plowing through some random ones

― GAY HIPSTER BATMAN ON HIS WAY TO A CIRCUIT PARTY (donna rouge), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:42 (5 months ago) Permalink

Satoshi Miki has a new film out soon, Ore Ore (It's Me, It's Me), i'm a fan so hoping its good
a film based on Tokyo Story is coming out next month, looks as rubbish as you'd expect :/ http://youtu.be/VQjiqxx3rNw

― ばかざっぴ (zappi), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:50 (5 months ago) Permalink

new kore-eda bluray is on the internet but no subtitles

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 15:26 (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i wish, or one of the others? i can't keep track w/kore-eda, he seems to make a lot, some of which become canonical & the others which are just "oh yeah he made a film about a sex doll you can get it on import nbd"

― what is google (schlump), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:51 (5 months ago) Permalink

i wish

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:54 (5 months ago) Permalink

the only one of his i have seen is nobody knows iirc

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 19:54 (5 months ago) Permalink

i'm the same, i've only seen after life & spend most days feeling guilt at not having got to nobody knows or marborosi (i figure still walking will be sorta easier than those?, & so/somehow it's less alluring). nobody knows sounds really great, i think i'm gonna try to squeeze it in over the holidays. after life is classic fwiw.

― what is google (schlump), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:01 (5 months ago) Permalink

i was going to do a double bill of 'distant' and that film about the japanese red army

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:03 (5 months ago) Permalink

"still walking" is great, obv ozu comparisons will be made but it's a quiet japanese generational family drama what can you do

― horse motivator (clouds), Tuesday, 11 December 2012 20:29 (5 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

so the MoMA series continues... more on Wakamatsu and 'pink cinema'?

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/17267

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 January 2013 12:51 (4 months ago) Permalink

Saw Ecstasy..., its very rough around the edges (that's the way he likes it), a very different side to Japanese film (even compared to Oshima), he likes to initiate conversation around other underground(s) (Japanese free jazz, deals w/The Red Army), doesn't flinch at the seedy Shinjuku side of life etc.

Don't enough about 'pink cinema' though...

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 January 2013 13:15 (4 months ago) Permalink

Would really like to see that. Got the Ozu Student Comedies box for Christmas, haven't dug in yet but will soon.

The title of this thread is kinda depressing, wish we could change it.

― MaresNest, Friday, 4 January 2013 13:29 (4 months ago) Permalink

pisses me off every time it pops up. Pete you are a bad man.

― ばかザッピ (zappi), Friday, 4 January 2013 13:35 (4 months ago) Permalink

worst and wrongest thread title on ilx?

― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 4 January 2013 14:17 (4 months ago) Permalink

it was a 'thing':

French films are shit. Porquoi?

― Ward Fowler, Friday, 4 January 2013 14:19 (4 months ago) Permalink

A mod title change is in order. May I suggest

Japanese films are kuso. Doshite?

― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 4 January 2013 14:41 (4 months ago) Permalink

lol

― silver pozole (clouds), Friday, 4 January 2013 16:14 (4 months ago) Permalink

(my copy of rashomon has just arrived, but is missing the slipcase and the booklet. boo)

am now onto the Kurosawa Classics box. but only managed 30 minutes of The Lower Depths at the weekend. should branch out a bit, i think...

― koogs, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:49 (4 months ago) Permalink

The title of this thread is kinda depressing, wish we could change it.
― MaresNest, Friday, 4 January 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pisses me off every time it pops up. Pete you are a bad man.
― ばかザッピ (zappi), Friday, 4 January 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
worst and wrongest thread title on ilx?
― Jamie_ATP, Friday, 4 January 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YOU GUYS

I need to remind myself to tell Pete about this when I run into him again.

― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 January 2013 17:23 (4 months ago) Permalink

you know it's a good troll when it's still aggravating people eleven years down the line.

― c sharp major, Friday, 4 January 2013 17:44 (4 months ago) Permalink

The Living Koheiji?

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/film_screenings/17290

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:44 (4 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Susumu Hani films at MoMA this weekend (he'll be present too). Bad Boys and what else?

― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 21:01 (3 months ago) Permalink

Only seen Nanami: Inferno of First Love but oh my if it isn't one for all of you new wavers out there.

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 22:11 (3 months ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

― shouting in a bucket blues (MaresNest), Monday, 25 February 2013 16:47 (2 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Kwaidan, 1964, colour, 183 minutes (4 separate stories). looks lovely and i think the audio would work on its own, just don't listen after dark.

― koogs, Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:04 (1 month ago) Permalink

one of the greats

― Pope Rusty I (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 April 2013 21:23 (1 month ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

coming back to kwaidan i have a question. the answer is probably 'of course, you idiot' but hey. the first segment, 'the black hair', at the end the music and sound effects bear no relation to his stumbling around. is it meant to be like that? makes the whole thing feel horribly disconcerting, which i guess is the point.

― koogs, Monday, 6 May 2013 10:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

yes

― clouds, Monday, 6 May 2013 12:57 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

coincidently, i found this, from the same week i watch kwaidan, talking about the music by toru takemitsu, mostly of the third part, hoichi the earless. http://www.20jazzfunkgreats.co.uk/wordpress/2013/04/kwaidan/

― koogs, Monday, 6 May 2013 15:42 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

and the music appears to be available here: http://avantgardeproject.conus.info/mirror/AGP24/index.htm

― koogs, Monday, 6 May 2013 15:45 (2 weeks ago) Permalink

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