I'm in a Yakuza mood. Just saw Fukasaku's Battles Without Honour... on Tubi, I think? There's like 5 different places you can stream a variety of Japanese stuff (disregarding Netflix, which certainly should be discarded in this context), that one seemed alright, bar an ad hitting literally 10 minutes before the movie was over. AsianCrush seems pretty decent. Some other cult movie-type sites for streaming, Shudder, Midnight Pulp, even Sundance Channel etc almost seem like clones of each other, at least design-wise.... Shudder not letting me know exactly what they have before biting the trial isn't helping, either.
Amazon Prime Video (Canada) actually surprised me by having a decent bit of stuff.
God it's hard to find even some of the more modern stuff, let alone older flicks (I spent like an hour looking for Fukasaku's Graveyard of Honour (1975) and nothing, nothing at all, anywhere)... can't find any Miike beyond his really big ones; it seems Zebraman will be forever out of my grasp... Ishii (Crazy Thunder Road) doesn't seem to be anywhere; Kitano is hit and miss. Fireworks yes, Sonatine no, and the frustration mounts!
Oh, this thread seems kinda... desolate. Too bad.
