Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Kento Yamazaki, Masaaki Takarai, Akihiko Sai | Written by Sion Sono | Directed by Yuji Shimomura
When I was a kid I thought all martial arts movies were fight after fight after fight. We didn’t get many martial arts movies on TV in those days but there were plenty of shows like The Incredibly Strange Film Show, which featured clips from some of the wildest kung-fu flicks out there. It wasn’t until a few years later and I had started renting VHS tapes from my local video shop that I found out that Was true! Ok, Ok, so I now know it’s not true – many martial arts films have real plots, tell real stories, with character arcs and everything… but, you see, it seems I’d spent my youth renting a myriad of Godfrey Ho’s stitched-together ninja movies and multiple badly-edited, badly-dubbed movies on tape...
When I was a kid I thought all martial arts movies were fight after fight after fight. We didn’t get many martial arts movies on TV in those days but there were plenty of shows like The Incredibly Strange Film Show, which featured clips from some of the wildest kung-fu flicks out there. It wasn’t until a few years later and I had started renting VHS tapes from my local video shop that I found out that Was true! Ok, Ok, so I now know it’s not true – many martial arts films have real plots, tell real stories, with character arcs and everything… but, you see, it seems I’d spent my youth renting a myriad of Godfrey Ho’s stitched-together ninja movies and multiple badly-edited, badly-dubbed movies on tape...
- 3/2/2021
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Stars: Tak Sakaguchi, Kento Yamazaki, Masaaki Takarai, Akihiko Sai | Written by Sion Sono | Directed by Yuji Shimomura
When I was a kid I thought all martial arts movies were fight after fight after fight. We didn’t get many martial arts movies on TV in those days but there were plenty of shows like The Incredibly Strange Film Show, which featured clips from some of the wildest kung-fu flicks out there. It wasn’t until a few years later and I had started renting VHS tapes from my local video shop that I found out that Was true! Ok, Ok, so I now know it’s not true – many martial arts films have real plots, tell real stories, with character arcs and everything… but, you see, it seems I’d spent my youth renting a myriad of Godfrey Ho’s stitched-together ninja movies and multiple badly-edited, badly-dubbed movies on tape...
When I was a kid I thought all martial arts movies were fight after fight after fight. We didn’t get many martial arts movies on TV in those days but there were plenty of shows like The Incredibly Strange Film Show, which featured clips from some of the wildest kung-fu flicks out there. It wasn’t until a few years later and I had started renting VHS tapes from my local video shop that I found out that Was true! Ok, Ok, so I now know it’s not true – many martial arts films have real plots, tell real stories, with character arcs and everything… but, you see, it seems I’d spent my youth renting a myriad of Godfrey Ho’s stitched-together ninja movies and multiple badly-edited, badly-dubbed movies on tape...
- 8/17/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
By Robert Edwards
Gakuryu Ishii, once known as Sogo Ishii, is a prolific punk filmmaker, and radical auteur for his outsider narratives and fiercely original techniques. Pioneering the formal language that would become a staple of the Japanese cyberpunk genre while still in college, put Ishii into a league of his own. His sense of kinetic camerawork and fast editing created a style that would dominate the indie scene during the ‘80s, but this style was not his only contribution to cinema. As his career developed into the ‘90s, he moved away from the aggressive masculine punk narratives that formulated his early identity as an auteur and began creating female centred stories that felt more mature in execution. “August in the Water” is one of those films.
The story revolves around a young girl named Isuku, played by Rena Komine, who moves to a new school. Her...
Gakuryu Ishii, once known as Sogo Ishii, is a prolific punk filmmaker, and radical auteur for his outsider narratives and fiercely original techniques. Pioneering the formal language that would become a staple of the Japanese cyberpunk genre while still in college, put Ishii into a league of his own. His sense of kinetic camerawork and fast editing created a style that would dominate the indie scene during the ‘80s, but this style was not his only contribution to cinema. As his career developed into the ‘90s, he moved away from the aggressive masculine punk narratives that formulated his early identity as an auteur and began creating female centred stories that felt more mature in execution. “August in the Water” is one of those films.
The story revolves around a young girl named Isuku, played by Rena Komine, who moves to a new school. Her...
- 5/9/2020
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
Masayuki Suo is a director not afraid to touch on cultural taboos in his work, most notably with 1996’s breakthrough “Shall We Dance?”. There, he tackled a foreign influence in ballroom dancing, and its lack of acceptance as a respectable activity for a middle-aged salaryman. His earlier “Sumo Do, Sumo Don’t”, however, looks at a more traditional Japanese activity, but how a younger generation embrace the foreign and see the past as taboo.
“Youth” is screening at Japan Society
Shuhei (Masahiro Motoki) is a slacker student, confident that he has no need to go to class or make any efforts, as his family connections have already landed him a job on graduation. There’s just one problem with this: he actually has to graduate. As such, he feels it’s about time he met with his professor, Anayama (Akira Emoto).
Anayama is something of a sumo wrestling buff; a lean man,...
“Youth” is screening at Japan Society
Shuhei (Masahiro Motoki) is a slacker student, confident that he has no need to go to class or make any efforts, as his family connections have already landed him a job on graduation. There’s just one problem with this: he actually has to graduate. As such, he feels it’s about time he met with his professor, Anayama (Akira Emoto).
Anayama is something of a sumo wrestling buff; a lean man,...
- 4/5/2020
- by Andrew Thayne
- AsianMoviePulse
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