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A young lazy guy that spends his days smoking and making love to his two girlfriends is spyed on by two undercover policemen who occupy a neighbourhood appartment. They suspect him of commiting riots against police during radical student demonstrations. But the guy’s easy living doesn’t let them suspect anything. One day one of his friends visists him and he has an argument…Read More »
This is the second of three major film adaptation of Junichiro Tanizaki’s famous novel from the 1940s, the first one being the 1950 version directed by Yutaka Abe, the latter one being Kon Ichikawa’s The Makioka Sisters from 1983. Shima’s version stars Machiko Kyo, Fujiko Yamamoto, Junko Kano and Yukiko Todoroki in the roles of the sisters. The novel (and the films) follow the lives of the wealthy Makioka family of Osaka from the autumn of 1936 to April 1941, focusing on the family’s attempts to find a husband for the third sister, Yukiko. It depicts the decline of the family’s upper-middle-class, suburban lifestyle as the specter of World War II and Allied Occupation hangs over the novel.Read More »
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Paranoia Agent (妄想代理人 Mōsō Dairinin) is a Japanese anime television series created by director Satoshi Kon and produced by Madhouse about a social phenomenon in Musashino, Tokyo caused by a juvenile serial assailant named Lil’ Slugger (the English equivalent to Shōnen Batto, which translates to “Bat Boy”). The plot relays between a large cast of people affected in some way by the phenomenon; usually Lil’ Slugger’s victims or the detectives assigned to apprehend him. As each character becomes the focus of the story, details are revealed about their secret lives and the truth about Lil’ Slugger. The series and its themes have been compared to those recurrent in the filmography of David Lynch.Read More »
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Experimental short film by Jun Miyazaki
Music: Flip Light Cruiser Feat. Last Of Ride by Kuroi MoriRead More »
Sacred Mother Kannon tells the story of a nun who believes herself to be the reincarnation of the legendary Happyaku Bikuni (also known as Yao Bikuni). Happyaku Bikuni supposedly became immortal as the result of eating mermaid’s flesh, and lived for eight hundred years before finally disappearing into a cave in Wakasa. Now the nun only seeks death from her various lovers, though she can never seem to achieve it.Read More »
Takeo is a university graduate who stumbles his way through the idiosyncrasies of Japan’s graduate recruitment market. Big and respectable corporations put him through the wringer, whilst smaller corporations try all manner of tricks and whiles to convince him to join. Mariko has always been there for him, as a friend, but when Takeo finds an ambitious girlfriend, she has to consider whether he is more than just a friend to her.Read More »
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The detective with the highest arrest rate. In fact, he was a vicious detective who communicated with the gangsters!Read More »
In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.Read More »
Very little information out there in English on this one, but it appears to be one of many filmatisations of Shiro Ozaki’s novel Jinsei Gekijo. Starstudded and directed in three segments by three directors. Seems to involve lots of yakuzas and politics. And sex (a golden shower!).Read More »