Synopsis:
Mike Hama is a private investigator who has been reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle.

Harukana.Jidai.No.Kaidan.O.1995.1080p.BluRay.FLAC2.0.x264-PTer.mkv

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Chinese

The post Kaizô Hayashi – Harukana jidai no kaidan o AKA The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing daughter, Bellflower. The two follow a succession of bizarre, obscure clues, until they track down the location of the kidnappers and the daughter.

This is the most impossibly beautiful film I’ve ever seen, a mediation on loss, longing, beauty and time. Using old film techniques, humor, Dadaism, and glorious black and white cinematography, it is also a fanciful homage to early silent cinema in Japan. Especially the Benshi, the silent film narrators. This was a tradition in Russia and Poland as well, a narrator or actor would read the inter-titles of a silent film, adding commentary and at times their own political bent to a feature. This was popular throughout silent cinema’s reign, and particularly relevant in industrial or agrarian communities with lower literacy rates. Shunsui Matsuda, a Benshi who traveled throughout coal mining regions of post-war Japan where shortages made re-runs of silent films popular entertainment, appears in Hayashi’s film. (Mr. Matsuda is also to be lauded for his work preserving old films, many prints he acquired by searching in thrift shops and restoring them. His excellent book, “The Benshi: Japanese Silent Film Narrators”, details both his work and the Benshi tradition.) In many ways comparable to Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s “Once Upon a Time Cinema”, though without the political commentary, Hayashi’s work creates a complete magical world combining both the past and the present. Now if only I could get a copy on DVD. [an IMDb user]

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Subtitles:English

The post Kaizô Hayashi – Yume miruyoni nemuritai AKA To Sleep so as to Dream (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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The 3 Part of the Maiku Hama Triology is the best and probably darkest of all the films. In fact, this episode is more of a horror-like thriller reminiscent of a Takashi Miike film. “The Trap,” which is the final film of the trilogy was preceded by the more semi-comical episodes of “The Most Terrible Time In My Life,” and then followed by “Stairway To The Distant Past,” and finally concluding with this film, “The Trap.” In the previous episodes of the trilogy, Maiku Hama (Masatoshi Nagase) is not the aloof private detective he was originally portrayed as; but a much more intelligent and calm detective.

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The post Kaizo Hayashi – Wana AKA The Trap [+Extras] (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Stairway to the Distant Past is the second film in the Mike Hama Private Investigator Trilogy. If you’ve seen part one The Most Terrible Time in My Life you must seek this out to find out how all your favourite characters are getting on. The films themes are age and family as Mikes mother “Dynamite Sexy Lilly” returns to Yokohama with her strip act many years after deserting Mike and his sister Akane. She reveals who Mikes father is and he sets out to find him. This films DoP deserves an Oscar as the picture is stunningly shot – it reminded me most of the Cinema du Look of Luc Besson and Leos Carax.

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The post Kaizo Hayashi – Harukana jidai no kaidan o AKA The Stairway To The Distant Past [+Extras] (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.