Why are Japanese films so terrible?

A mod title change is in order. May I suggest

Japanese films are kuso. Doshite?

lol

(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...

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

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

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worst and wrongest thread title on ilx?

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YOU GUYS

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

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

The Living Koheiji?

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

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZZD-WW879s

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.

one of the greats

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.

yes

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/

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

Can anybody tell me if there are any period Star Wars knock-offs other than Message From Space?

Naruse's Late Chrysanthemums is on film4 at 11am on thursday (uk)

and the announcer mentioned that the next two thursday morning's will also feature films by Naruse. tv episode guide says the next one is Floating Clouds so i'm guessing the one after that is When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

which saves me £21 - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mikio-Naruse-Collection-Hideko-Takamine/dp/B000WM9WL4/ref=sr_1_1

film4 you are a fucking joke

meanwhile at 9 o'clock when i'm home to watch something they'll be showing a fucking comic book movie no doubt

(Golden Child on now, Forrest Gump at 9)

i rest my case

a starter's Naruse guide

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/feature/better-late-than-never-the-films-of-mikio-naruse/174

list of Kinema Junpo top 10s by year

http://www.rinkworks.com/checklist/list.cgi?u=crimsong&p=kinemajunpotop10s

Kinema Junpo's Top 200 Japanese Films of All Time

http://www.imdb.com/list/hnvRBfilvaI/?ref_=tt_rls_5

Kinema Junpo's Top 15 of all time (1995 version)

http://www.imdb.com/list/z9-B5AIuIgY/

(i've seen 8 of that last list. Floating Clouds is on next week and i plan on picking up the others. 2 aren't available here though (although one is available in french))

You'd expect Ozu to be shown as his reputation is so high not Naruse so its terrific that Film4 are doing it actually!

yeah, this is the first time that any Naruse films have ever been broadcast on a UK TV channel

in a slot usually reserved for Gary Cooper's lesser movies and the odd Gainsborough bodice-ripper

no, that 11am on thursday is normally a foreign film. lots of ghibli stuff etc. lots of the films for that Story Of Film season got broadcast there. but usually they are repeats of foreign things that have been on elsewhen (often v late at night)

on the 10th, for example, it was Monsieur Lazhar (french canadian). on the 3rd, Las Acacias (argentinian), the thrusday before that The World of Apu (indian), the week before that part 2 of the Apu trilogy, Aparajito...

(why is film4 listings website so terrible? can i not just get an ascii list of the next week's films instead of the web2.0 scroll-a-thon they subject me to?)

You can do it day by day on the iPlayer site, though it only has the upcoming three days and is time+title only.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv/film4/20131019

yeah, i found somewhere else. i also adblocked the hell out of the daily listing page - http://www.film4.com/ontv and now it loads without the weird pauses whilst something i don't care about refreshes.

in on-topic news, the above has Kiki's Delivery Service listed for two thursday's time where i'd be expecting Woman Ascends to be if they were doing the trilogy, like they announced. but i realise that might change, or it might be on later due to content.

tbf i accept that broadcasting the movies at all is a Good Thing and i will leave my irked vendetta with Film4 for another thread

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs is on on the 7th november

anyone seen Himizu? just arrived in NY after 3 years.

http://www.littlewhitelies.co.uk/theatrical-reviews/himizu-20645

here's a review of the two Sono films playing NY... Himizu had me shaken throughout, among the best I've seen this year or last.

http://filmcomment.com/entry/reviews-guilty-of-romance-himizu

(searching the board, didnt know his other stuff is usu horror)

oh, i have seen love exposure - martial arts meets up-the-skirt photography. odd.

Land of Hope and Why Don't You Play in Hell? are both playing at this year's MSPIFF.

haha, "love exposure" is more than just "odd"! it's a spectacle!

sono is probably the most interesting filmmaker working today (not counting malick as he's on the way out, shane carruth hasn't done enough for me to really tell). (weerasethakul is up there too)

only sono i've seen is Cold Fish, which was a p good, slightly overextended, serial-psycho killer movie

definitely check out noriko's dinner table and strange circus, then love exposure if you're feeling daring.

I'm p sure i watched the first hour of Love Exposure a few years ago

I hated Cold Fish, but adored Love Exposure. Oh, and Strange Circus is pretty great, too. I can't wait to see Himizu!

Land of Hope played at last years PIX, and I pretty much loved it. But I have family who fled Fukushima, so it hit close to home. Had never seen a Sono before. He has another, apparantly more horrific, playing this year, and I'll see it.

http://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/seasons/yoshitaro-nomura-film-season

^ Looking to catch something from this season. Anyone know him?

Completely ignorant of him. Anyone know Kohei Iguri or Muddy River?

http://www.japansociety.org/event/muddy-river

yeah, it's a good one. art theatre guild production if I'm not mistaken.

i wish I had more time to keep up w/ contemporary Japanese cinema. I could post some suggestions later if anyone wants 'em.

btw the thread title is probably the wrongest thing ever posted to ILX. :(

i have "why don't you play in hell" lined up for watching this weekend.

I saw Kitano's Outrage Beyond being reviewed earlier this year, did anyone catch it? I was really pleasantly surprised by it, has some really great scenes in it.