Japanese Cinema Thread

[Nachtsuchen]

All extremely good movies. Especially Zatoichi.

[imperiouskitten]

Watched Bisita Q last night, holy shit lmao. TRIGGUR WARNING. I am triggurable by rape and stuff but it was really hilariously done. We were rolling laughing.

Nice one Jibartik

[Ret.SaxonAlex]

I liked Seven Samurai and the one where the guy drinks and smokes too much and gets liver cancer. I think black and white old japanese films are like westerns. They have more grit to them, to remind you back in the day life was just bad. Maybe leading to judging them less for being F'ed up. "What we do in life! Echoes in Eternity!" - Gladiator movie. and then whatever achillies said in that movie I realized later was just porn for chicks. I still like troy though even though as an adult looking back, it is like watching DBZ as a kid and watching spikey troll dolls scream for an hour.

[Mblake81]

Originally Posted by Nachtsuchen [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Especially Zatoichi.

The TV show was good also. Intros are one of my favorite things, Zatoichi had some good ones.

Example: 1, 2 and 3

Somber.. upbeat. film grain, old cameras and sound equipment.

[imperiouskitten]

Such wisdom in my thread!! I am truly proud!!!

[imperiouskitten]

Chushingura 47 Samurai (1962)

&

The Fall of Ako Castle aka Ako-jo denzetsu (1978)

Double feature, for both of these films depict the same historical narrative, and must do so from a particular novelization as they are nigh-on scene-for-scene clones. These are very classical, to the point of near banality, samurai films. No love arcs, little depth or messaging beyond "samurai values", just a story of a Daimyo done wrong and his men's years-long quest for vengeance.

It would be pretty tedious to watch both of these in their entirety, which I have done for you and can therefore recommend you watch only the 1962 version. This film contains a more complete version of the narrative (to its benefit), clocking in at 3.5hours, and the highlights for me were some incredibly catchy and hilarious Noh scenes. These are very dry films however and I would only recommend watching to acquaint yourself with a particularly defining narrative of the Edo period, not to mention seeing the most entertaining Noh I've seen on film so far. If you really like something like Good Bad & Ugly you would probably have the patience for this. I would agree with the characterization of these samurai movies along the lines of westerns.

Comically, both films cast Toshiro Mifune as box office bait. He even appears on the box art for the criterion collection edition of the 1962 film, despite playing a very small part.

[imperiouskitten]

Bisita Q (2001)

Very different from the rest reviewed here. This is a very, very vulgar acid trippy impressionistic horror-comedy film, mostly shot in the Blair Witch handicam style of the early 2000s.

It's about a really wacked out family. The young son is bullied publicly, and physically abuses his mother at home when he's not hiding in his room wearing some kind of fetishy oxygen ristriction mask. The father is kind of a pathetic cuck, but he "finds himself" throughout the film as does the mother, lol. They take in a houseguest ("Q") who helps them along their grotesque self discovery.

It's a very sexualized film, with some of the sexuality rather hot and some of it horrifyingly disgusting. Includes graphic depiction of sexualized lactation, nudity, homoerotic rape with the penetration by object actually on film ???, hetero rape, and necrophilia. Somehow it's VERY funny. You should watch it.

[Jibartik]

hahahaha YESSS!!!!!!!!

"It's a myrical, the dead get wet!?"

[imperiouskitten]

Originally Posted by Jibartik [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hahahaha YESSS!!!!!!!!

"It's a myrical, the dead get wet!?"

the mysteries of life are wonderful!!!

[imperiouskitten]

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