Why are Japanese films so terrible?

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the new sarah michelle gellar movie (remake of ju-on) is directed by takashi shimizu!!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

I should be going on friday martin.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Great! I'll go on Friday too!

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link

cool, see you there.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

revive!

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

I am about to watch Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Cure". What should I expect?

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 21:27 (nineteen years ago) link

it is um... extreme

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 4 November 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

I do not know if I will enjoy it, then. Is it like Takashi Miike? The jacket promises noir. I want noir.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 21:31 (nineteen years ago) link

yeah, it's kind of Noir. The most famous movie it's like is Seven, but more noir than that.

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 4 November 2004 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

anybody see "Thirteen Consecutive Slaughter" ?
The entire plot consists of this guy killing 13 women one after the other while free-jazz sax wails in the background. It was ok.

― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

i have Visitor Q because someone loaned it to me and I never got around to watching it. Is it good? Will it unnerve me?

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

No, haven't seen that one!

xpost

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Visitor Q is great if you're in the right mood. It's attempts to disturb you are pretty hilarious.

― Dan Quisenberry (deangulberry), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

You just like it because it's Japanese.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

it's good. if you can make it past the opening scene (which is disturbing, the sense of humor becomes more apparent.

it's just a nice story about the modern japanese every-family.

― (Jon L), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Visitor Q is a very odd movie, really unpleasant to watch in places, but also hugely entertaining.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 4 November 2004 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

I am about to watch Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Cure". What should I expect?

the best movie ever!! well second best. but certianly the scariest. hook up your player to your stereo if you can because the soundtrakc is crazy like eraserhead.

― :| (....), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:39 (nineteen years ago) link

I watched akira kurosawa's 'throne of blood' today, strangely apposite that he should change the ending of macbeth so that the army do not advance on the fort and kill the macbeth character but (haha naively hopeful? idealistic?! sigh) he has the mad crazy tyrant's own troops revolt and gun him down in a hail of arrows, eventually (haha holy figurative guacamole batman!) being speared through the throat (or voice-box) literally 'silenced'. would that republicans watched kurosawa.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I thought the film ok by the way and I'm not normally trapped into such ropey reductive mathematical nuts bolts brass tacks addition and subtraction analysis of films but I thought it kinda apt just this once to say. you know, it stuck in my craw.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:44 (nineteen years ago) link

you've changed.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

I can change back.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:46 (nineteen years ago) link

damn we should have watched that on halloween rather than the comparatively unfrightening albeit good The Dead Zone

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link

It wasn't as good as I remembered, frankly.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

you've changed.

― cºzen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

a private eye who is flamboyantly gay in a prussian way

I wish I understood what this meant.

xpost I know

― adam... (nordicskilla), Thursday, 4 November 2004 23:51 (nineteen years ago) link

imagine john banner from hogans heroes channelign alan cumming and youre almost there. have you seen cure already?

― :| (....), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:04 (nineteen years ago) link

No, still at work.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:08 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.buddycom.com/dinos/images/trexruns.gif

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 5 November 2004 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I just watched Kinji Fukasaku's Blackmail Is My Life, it was a lot of fun, even if a couple of parts didn't make sense (which I think was a problem with the subtitling). I need to get the other two DVDs of his that just got released.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 7 November 2004 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link

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.

Late Spring is just sooooo good. I can understand why younger directors rebeled against Ozu because he was very *tranquil* but still Ozu rules! :-)

We also saw Audition which wasn't perfect but still very good. Also about Japanese society.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 7 November 2004 10:10 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Pulse" has been released from Miramax Purgatory -- playing in a few cities, DVD shortly. I saw it 3 years ago, and a couple shots in particular haunts me still.

Prob'ly off to see Mizoguchi's "Sansho the Bailiff" tonight...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I just sprung for the Criterion Ugetsu the other day.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 20:46 (eighteen years ago) link

sansho is so great

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

The 47 Ronin was on recently, but I didn't get around to watching it.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Koji Wakamatsu's 'Go Go Second-Time Virgin' from 1969 is harsh stuff but worth tracking down if you like Miike's 'Audition' and 'Visitor Q'

I've been overdosing on the 3 DVD set of Toshio Matsumoto's Experimental Film Works 1961-1987. I can't believe I didn't know about this guy, utterly beautiful abstract film & video works all set to blazing period electronic scores -- expensive but worth it -- if you're only getting one, get Volume 2

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Wild Zero is endlessly classic.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link

haven't seen Matsumoto's Funeral Parade of Roses yet though

Black Lizard, one of my favorite films. not on this thread yet. I think there are very few people on this thread who wouldn't love that film.

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link

"Go Go Second-Time Virgin" is OK, but the Wakamatsu interview included on the DVD is golden!

Wild Zero is amazing!

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― Polysix Bad Battery (cprek), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link

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― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 03:26 (eighteen years ago) link

have we done a why are american films so terrible?

we should

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Wednesday, 16 November 2005 05:27 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

anyone seen any imai tadashi?

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Not I.

I watched Mizoguchi's Sisters of the Gion last night... short, bleak and grim. I prefer his '30s visual palette to Ozu's or Naruse's.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 December 2005 14:37 (eighteen years ago) link

six months pass...

Swa Kobayashi's Harakiri the other night -- yow, that early bamboo sword scene...

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 June 2006 13:18 (seventeen years ago) link

"Vital" convinced me that Tsukamoto is the best director since Tarkovsky.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Morbz, Sleep and I are going to go see this Sunday:

http://www.subwaycinema.com/frames/nyaff06_yokai.htm

$9 + $1 if you buy online

― Werner Herzog Netflix Quine (ex machina), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Dave - that's the guy who did Tetsuo, yes (I think Netflix messed up the Romanization of his name)?

― Werner Herzog Netflix Quine (ex machina), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:30 (seventeen years ago) link

responding to haterz upthread

Was Ichi the Killer that hard to follow? I didn't think so. The special effects in it were silly/bad but it was fairly easy to follow if you don't let the ambiguity about Ichi's past get your panties in a bunch.

― Werner Herzog Netflix Quine (ex machina), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, Tsukamoto directed Tetsuo. He also acts in most of his films (he's
the metal-fetishist they hit with the car in Tetsuo) as well as others
(he plays Ichi's handler in Ichi the Killer). He also does all his own
camera work.

― shieldforyoureyes (shieldforyoureyes), Saturday, 24 June 2006 03:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Jon, I was only tempted by It's Only Talk, and dint even get to that. Miike's been kinda silly and below-par lately.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 June 2006 12:29 (seventeen years ago) link

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