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Do you like Akira Kurosawa? Takeshi Kitano? Classic Japanese Cinema? Then click here! (pg. 2)
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| enydo |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
The only Japanese movie I would recommend to you after how you describe your likings is Tokyo Gore Police. :o
Oh, and from HongKong you'll like John Woo's The Killer and most certainly adore The Good, the Bad, the Weird (South Korea) which is utterly awesome.
From the above list, among those movies I know, you'll hate everything. |
The Good, The Bad, The Weird was part of a project I did for the same class actually. That was a pretty fun remake. |
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| Meat187 |
It is a mystery to me how you can actually do classes on stuff like that. Aren't you supposed to learn something at university??? God, American education is so cheap. :p
Unless you're studying something like Asian Culture or Cinematic History, of course. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| How can you loathe samurai? Ran is ing epic! |
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| netroM |
I always liked Takashi Miike's Dead or Alive series :)
Not in any way "classic Japanese cinema", but good films :) |
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| Trancefxs |
| Lol, you will hate any film on that list. Sonatine would have been pretty much a pick based on your tastes, but if you already hated that one.... |
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| EgosXII |
how can you not like 7 samurai?
that film is ing awesome in every way imo |
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| djhaziel |
| quote: | | Originally posted by Lira |
Rashomon ;) |
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| djhaziel |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
how can you not like 7 samurai?
that film is ing awesome in every way imo |
same thoughts here....
which makes me think that lira is an evil human being :p |
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| couch-potato |
You may as well just not go to the festival :wtf:
That said I'm going to watch Yojimbo just to spite you :whip: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by djhaziel
Rashomon ;) |
I did watch Rashomon, but it is nowhere among my favourite films in Japanese language... I mean, the plot is nice and interesting but the acting really really really really annoys me.
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
The only Japanese movie I would recommend to you after how you describe your likings is Tokyo Gore Police.
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From the above list, among those movies I know, you'll hate everything. |
All right, so far I've been criticising the films I don't like and spent too little time explaining what it is that I like to see when I go to the cinema.
Like I said, I enjoy existential dilemmas, human relationships, and all things drama, but I don't like when these things seem to be part of an auxiliary plot rather than the main narrative. Also, I grew up watching television, I can keep up with a fast chain of events, no need to be slow. And, no, I just can't feel the oomph unless you're talking about something that could be true right now. Unfortunately, I can't picture 300 hundred Georgians marching to Washington because they don't want to pay taxes of something like that, nor am I inclined to think a bunch of Russians will ever think of throwing a ring inside a volcano because the ring has magic powers or something. So the moment you throw ninjas, samurais, gueishas, gladiators, strawberry cheesecakes, Jedi Siths, and goblins in the mix, you've pretty much lost my attention.
Now, my all-time favourite Japanese film is Go, based on a novel of the same title by Kazuki Kaneshiro. It's about a contemporary issue, a guy's struggle to become an individual, and a love story - all at the same time. If you change some of the info about him (instead of a Zainichi Korean, he's a Chinese American, or a Turkish guy in Germany), you can still keep the plot without any major differences. Also, it is chopped and edited like an MTv video sometimes. I like it. After Life, yet another piece of J-Cinema I enjoyed, is about people trying to pick their favourite memory in the afterlife. Whenever it is supposed to be slow, there's some nice introspection monologue going on, so there is something rather than just a pause for us to breathe. As far as animations go, the sole reason why I could stomach Evangelion is because I don't even think you needed all those angels and robots and sexual innuendos - it was all about three kids extremely messed up in the head. I embarked in a dreamy state of dread and lust for hours after I watched the final episode.
Spirited Away was some sushified eyecandy that reminded me an awful lot of Alice in Wonderland, which was infinitely more original as far as I'm aware of; The 7 Samurai left me with such a great impression that I keep mixing it up with The Last Samurai, which gave me hope I can perhaps one day become the Last Zulu, or the Last Inuit; Sonatine had little - if any! - cohesion, and my friend and I just came to the conclusion that everyone involved in the making of that movie had a horrible fashion sense and awesome shirts. Even the sex scenes were so whattheheckful we couldn't make out what was going on.
However, I did see an okay film a few days before I saw Sonatine... gotta ask my other friend what film that was... |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
And, no, I just can't feel the oomph unless you're talking about something that could be true right now. Unfortunately, I can't picture 300 hundred Georgians marching to Washington because they don't want to pay taxes of something like that, nor am I inclined to think a bunch of Russians will ever think of throwing a ring inside a volcano because the ring has magic powers or something. So the moment you throw ninjas, samurais, gueishas, gladiators, strawberry cheesecakes, Jedi Siths, and goblins in the mix, you've pretty much lost my attention. |
But bringing down a helicopter with a car is OK? :conf: |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
But bringing down a helicopter with a car is OK? :conf: |
Yes, when the vtec kicks in, yo!
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