― Matt, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ess Kay, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Pete, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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 (twenty-two years ago) link
― david h(0wie), Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two 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.
― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 29 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― michael zZzz, Sunday, 6 October 2002 06:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 6 October 2002 10:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 Gameragroovy, 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 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 6 October 2002 14:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 28 April 2003 11:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
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 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 28 April 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 28 April 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago) link
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-one years ago) link
― Erik, Tuesday, 29 April 2003 06:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― brian badword (badwords), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 07:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 19:40 (twenty-one 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-one 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-one years ago) link
― Millar (Millar), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 22:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 29 April 2003 23:45 (twenty-one 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-one years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 5 January 2004 19:55 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 04:58 (twenty years ago) link
― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 05:09 (twenty years ago) link
― webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 16:51 (twenty years ago) link
― 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
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 January 2004 01:16 (twenty years ago) link
― 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 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:05 (twenty years ago) link
Will def see 'rikyu' the following week.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:19 (twenty years ago) link
i need to transcribe that list of japanese atomic bomb films, see if i can dig a few more up.
i looked online and found this howlerhttps://katakurifilms.com/8-of-the-best-japanese-films-about-the-atomic-bomb/(fireflies is about the firebombing of kobe, nothing atomic about it)
― koogs, Monday, 18 March 2024 17:40 (six months ago) link
I watched four of those Tanaka films recently and yeah they were all good. Some great cinematography and mise en scene at times... she'd clearly learned some things from working with Mizoguchi.
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 18 March 2024 18:35 (six months ago) link
watched Osaka Elegy just now. it's well regarded but probably one for the heads.
anyway, in one bit they go to the theatre to see Banraku, the classic Japanese puppet plays. i can't remember seeing this in any other film. are there any others?
― koogs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:36 (five months ago) link
Takeshi Kitano's Dolls:
The first story is the one on which the film centers. The film leads into it by opening with a performance of Bunraku theatre, and closes with a shot of dolls from the same. The performance is that of "The Courier for Hell" by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, and it alludes to themes that reappear later in the film. Because the rest of the film itself (as Kitano himself has said) can be treated as Bunraku in film form, the film is quite symbolic.
― walking on the beach in a force ten gale (Matt #2), Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:42 (five months ago) link
(imdb lists 4, Dolls and Oharu and something Western. i don't remember the bit in Oharu and haven't seen Dolls)
((also puzzled by the fact 'hair-bun' is a thing people tag movies with))
― koogs, Thursday, 21 March 2024 12:42 (five months 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 (five months 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 (five months 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 (five months ago) link
Shinoda’s Double Suicide uses bunraku as a narrative element iirc
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 13:06 (five 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 (five 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 (five months ago) link
xp yeah the film is a bunraku adaptation
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 21 March 2024 22:21 (five 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 (five 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 months 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 months 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 months ago) link
a Ryûsuke Hamaguchi thread for all your Hamaguchi chat
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 27 May 2024 16:08 (three months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago) link
ju-on. extras include 2 different audio commentaries and about 2 hours of other stuff including period and new interviews with cast and crew. this might take a while... (and this is only part 1)
― koogs, Saturday, 29 June 2024 21:55 (two months ago) link
Went to a free mystery screening at a local theater (same place I saw The Man Who Stole the Sun), which turned out to be Dynamite Don-Don, late-period yakuza comedy by Kihachi Okamoto. Set during the American occupation, rival yakuza clans are warned that there will be serious consequences for continued violence, and so end up establishing a baseball tournament instead. Gotta say this plot maybe didn't warrant 140 minutes, but it was pretty entertaining. They break a lot of the rules of baseball!
― JoeStork, Tuesday, 16 July 2024 06:16 (two months ago) link
gotta love a shop i can walk to which not only has most Arrow releases in stock but which shadows Arrow's sales prices. picked up Dark Water and Irezuma for £9 each on saturday.
― koogs, Monday, 22 July 2024 13:09 (one month ago) link