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 years ago) link
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― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:40 (twenty 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 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 years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 23:45 (twenty 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 years ago) link
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― 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
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― 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
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― 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
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― 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
― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I saw The Courier for Hell when I visited the Bunraku theatre in Osaka, it was heartbreaking!
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:43 (four weeks ago) link
Not a movie but Tanizaki's Some Prefer Nettles has a lot of bunraku in it iirc
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:47 (four weeks ago) link
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 (four weeks ago) link
Shinoda’s Double Suicide uses bunraku as a narrative element iirc
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:06 (four weeks 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 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link
xp yeah the film is a bunraku adaptation
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:21 (four weeks 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 (four weeks ago) link