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| Lira |
T-Kitano doing exactly what I wanted
to do after being subjected to more
than 90 minutes of "Sonatine". !
Here's the thing: there's a Japanese Cinema Festival going on in Brasília in a couple of weeks, and I'd like to see if there's anything worth my time. The last time I went to one of these films I ended up watching "Sonatine" by Beat Takeshi and I wish I didn't. Some of the stuff I've seen by Kurosawa, namely "Hakuchi" and "Rhapsody in August" sucked so hard I could feel my eyeballs popping out of my skull as I watched them, though "Rashomon" was okay and I still don't know what to think of "Dreams".
I'm taking a friend with me, who hated "Sonatine" probably as much as I did, so I want to make it up to her and pick a nice film this time. I mean... sometimes when I take friends to films I loathe they wind up enjoying it anyway, just like the time I had to endure 5 hours of "Arice in Wonderrand" (also known as "Spirited Away") just to find out years later that it became one of the top-10 favourite animations of the friend I brought with me... but I'd like to err on the side of caution.
Anyway, here's a list of things Lira likes and dislikes:
Lira likes: Plot twists, drama, people crying, anything that resembles Die Hard 4.0, existential dilemmas, messed up characters, romance, Domo Kun, snow.
Lira dislikes: Pointless nudity unless I'm at home, violence and gore unless the murderer is doing some really cool stuff like taking down helicopters with a car, hyper-ethnic films that need to remind me the nationality of everyone involved even though I could've gathered it from the context, gangsters, Pokemans, anything that pretends to portray a story made before the advent of the steam engine.
Lira loathes: Samurais and the number 7.
Can you guys help me out? What films do you lot recommend?
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| Lews |
Spirited Away was ing awesome :mad:
So was Die Hard 4 :gsmile: |
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| enydo |
| I love Kurosawa and Kitano. Took a class in East Asian Film Directors last spring and was really surprised by how many of the films I absolutely loved. |
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| Lira |
I wish they made Spirited Hard 4 just so Bruce Willis could shove that patrol car inside that bloody bathhouse and blow it all up!
Now THAT would be awesome! |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
I love Kurosawa and Kitano. Took a class in East Asian Film Directors last spring and was really surprised by how many of the films I absolutely loved. |
What films did you watch? |
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| enydo |
| I'd have to go back and try and find my syllabus. One sec... |
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| enydo |
Ok, this is a pretty complete list I think.
Yasujiro Ozu
-Late Spring
-Equinox Flower
Akira Kurosawa
-Rashômon
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
-A Time To Live, A Time To Die
-A City Of Sadness
Edward Yang
-Yi Yi
Tsai Ming-liang
-Vive L’Amour
-What Time Is It There?
Wong Kar-Wai
-Chungking Express
-Fallen Angels
Chen Kaige
-Yellow Earth
Jia Zhangke
-Xiao Wu
-Unknown Pleasures
-Still Life
In particular, I loved Edward Yang and Wong Kar-Wai's work. Yi Yi was a really powerful film and I had smoked a bowl before the screening and was nearly in tears by the end. That doesn't usually happen to me with movies.
After going through our unit on Kurosawa I really started digging through his filmography. The atmosphere and cinematography of his films is really impressive. To be honest, I'd recommend most everything we watched. It was a really enjoyable class and our professor was awesome. She had been through a lot of the political and social upheaval as it was happening in China, so we had a lot of interesting lectures.
(and yeah, most of this stuff isn't Japanese at all :p ) |
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| d-miurge |
| Hana-bi by Kitano |
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| 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. |
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| Sushipunk |
Unfortunately, I have nothing better to post in this thread, except to agree with Lews. Specifically:
| quote: | Originally posted by Lews
Spirited Away was ing awesome :mad:
So was Die Hard 4 :gsmile: |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
from HongKong you'll like John Woo's The Killer |
Yeah, I thought that was cool too :p |
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