Can't recommend All About Lily Chou Chou. Downbeat like a Lars Von Trier film with some excellent music.
Can't recommend All About Lily Chou Chou. Downbeat like a Lars Von Trier film with some excellent music.
If you can find it, Swallowtail Butterfly is another great film by Shunji Iwai.Oh yeaaahh. I became a big fan of Salyu (the titular Lily Chou-Chou in the film) after watching this movie. Dark, but very much worth it.
Great film. I much prefer it to any of Kurosawa's samurai flicks, including Seven Samurai.Finally going to right a wrong and watch this. Hopefully at the weekend.
Awesome. Gonna see it tomorrow on my day off.I watched it a couple of weeks ago. Excellent film. Lots of small, mundane scenes that might come off as boring or slow for some people, but it fleshes out the character's lives nicely and paints a different Japan in a way a few films have. Sakura Ando was great, the kids were great, and it was painful to see Kirin Kiki in her last film. By the end, it was like a blow to the heart. Highly recommended.
I always head into FOPP if I'm going by Curzon Soho. Great shop for film buffs.I went into the store called fopp for the first time and they had so much world cinema I was in heaven. I only got this though after wanting to check it out for ages.
Also seeing this in half an hour, really looking forward to it.
I've been meaning to watch Shoplifters...maybe Saturday morning or so.
I love Our Little Sister because of how heartwarming and soothing it was and general hate endings that make me cry. Just how prepared should I be to cry? D:
Looks gorgeous, gonna seek this out.just watched taipei story and it was good. Have The Terrorizers as well to watch.
I fucking love Zatoichi but I recently watched the 2003 film and was really let down. It was a thoroughly mediocre Zatoichi story and I wasn't a big fan of Takeshi's interpretation of the character - even if he did have all of Shintaro's tics and mannerisms down.I picked up The Handmaiden from the library, not sure when I'll get to watch it though...
Also the Zatoichi Criterion set. It's very much a slow burn series.
Shoplifters was great. It's melodramatic for sure but well earned and still heartbreaking. A couple scenes really hit home like the fire hug scene with Yuri. Reminded me of Tokyo Godfathers in that poor people not related to each other still get to feel like family.
For what it's worth, that's not indicative of their entire lineup. A lot of Criterion films never made it onto their channel, you should check their website.Was quite hyped for the Criterion Channel, I subscribed early for the discount only having vague knowledge on the Criterion library. I just skimmed through it and their selection of Asian films is awful.
It's like the curator is a teenager who can't get over French New Wave cinema...
No movie by Hou Hsiao-Chen and only 3 by Edward Yang. None by Shunji Iwai, Naomi Kawase, or Shinji Aoyama... etc etc. And virtually no movie from what was imo the golden age of contemporary Japanese cinema (late 90's to early 00's). Super disappointed.
For me the asian cinema has been bit of a pill lately. Korea still produces good movies but at the same time everything feels stagnated. I just wait same directors drop their movies but there are very few new directors that actually do interesting work. I think last Korean movies I saw were A Taxi Driver and The Outlaws and while they vere good, they weren't all that special.
At least from Japan I have rediscovered Yoiji Yamada. I really like What a Wonderful Family! -series. Most certainly not for everybody but I can't get enough of them. Hopefully Yamada keeps cranking these up. Tokyo Family was also good, felt like protoversion of the series. I have been meaning to watch Kore-eda's Third Murder but haven't had the chanche yet.
I was bit dissapointed with this. I was expecting more action. But Brosnan was boss and it is nice to see Jackie do different type of roles in english movies.
I watched a few Kurosawa films and Ozu films i've never seen before in February.
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
Sanshiro Sugata
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Scandal
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An Autumn Afternoon
Ohayo
All the films were:
All good stuff. Trying to expand my Kurosawa to not just Samurai films. I think i've seen 23 now so almost everything.
I tried to watch the Idiot on Prime, but the subs were all messed up so I had to stop it unfortunately.
Except for Ikiru, every Kurosawa film I've watched were samurai films. Any recommendations for the non-samurai ones?
Shadow comes out in the US this week and looks like it is getting some pretty good reviews. Definitely going to have to watch this film now.
just watched taipei story and it was good. Have The Terrorizers as well to watch.
Heck yeah. A lot of people don't know about the 1980s Taiwan new wave scene. Highly recommend Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness as well. Fucking gorgeous.
Shadow was really great! Its kind of a slow movie though compared to other Zhang Yimou movies.