Sunday, October 24, 2010

Sympathy Quotes To A Sick

RECENTLY VIEWED ... BATTLE ROYALE

Manji
Yasuzo Masumura (1964) 6 / 10

After screenplay by Kaneto Shindo Masumura created here because of its theming a lesbian love and sexual servitude at that time certainly controversial film in its theatrical effect today sought more unintentionally funny. Particularly annoying I felt the coated hysterical game of the lead actress Kyoko Kishida I made THE WOMAN IN THE DUNES had really good memories. Manji is especially in comparison to later works such as Masumuras RED ANGEL or BLIND BEAST a big disappointment

Kuroi AME -. Black Rain
Shohei Imamura (1989) 9 / 10

The film adaptation of the novel by Masuji ibus, the well-known representatives of the "bomb literature, Imamura's last truly large-scale feature film. Shot in black and white, he told in two time levels of the tragic consequences of the American atomic bomb auf Hiroshima. Auf anrührende Weise verdeutlicht Imamura am Beispiel einer japanischen Familie, wie nachhaltig Krieg das Leben der Menschen zerstören kann. Nach KUROI AME folgten kleinere weniger aufwendige Produktionen wie DER AAL oder WARM WATER… In meinen Augen ist Imamura mit dieser Literaturverfilmung  sein letztes (mir bekanntes) uneingeschränktes Meisterwerk gelungen.

WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE
Shohei Imamura (2001) 7,5/10

Ein humorvoller besonderer kleiner Film, der mit seinen schrägen Einfällen und Figuren das Interesse des viewers can maintain continuous, but not total approaches the great classics Imamura. Female gratification was never visualized and eruptive in a movie. In view of these coincide possessive siren, every male egocentrism in itself.
The Pornographers
Shohei Imamura (1966) 8 / 10

an earlier style of Japanese Nouvelle Vague reckoned among, v or offbeat ideas overflowing with black Imamura and white film, which even the excesses of the upcoming Japanese Extreme cinema of the 70s suggests. A producer cheap porn movies married the widowed owner of a hairdressing salon and tries in vain to escape the influence of the Yakuza. Secretly, under the eyes of her reincarnated as a carp father, he pressed his wife's daughter and molested them at last. After the wife dies spiritually confused in a mental hospital, the husband loses all sense of pleasure and spends the next few years on a boat in order to create the perfect woman as a sex doll. As strange as the plot sounds so bizarre, the film is. A visually exciting experiment and sometimes work that threatens to lose but in their own intricate plot.

THE STRANGE SAGA OF HIROSHI Freeloading THE SEX MACHINE
Yuji Tajiri (2005) 7 / 10

A humorous representatives of the Japanese pink film , who with his crazy ideas, his most vital visualization of the sexual act, brings a smile to my face. An oblique sex clothes, how they can only come from Japan. Barbecue Sumo must be an exciting sport!

TATTOOED FLOWER VASE
Masaru Konuma (1976) 6 / 10

Another Pink Film (Pinku eiga) that comes along visually very high class, his weak act that at no accident IREZUMI remembered but it can hardly conceal.

TOKYO FIST
Shinya Tsukamoto (1995) 3 / 10

A fairly inexpensive piece of work from Tsukamoto, who with his film TETSUO - THE IRON MAN in fan circles des japanischen Extremkinos eine gewisse Berühmtheit erlangte. Die drastische blutspritzende Inszenierung der Boxkämpfe, versucht wohl die dünne Handlung, in ihrer einfältigen Verschränkung von Sex, Eifersucht und Gewalt, mit Eimern roter Farbe zuzukleistern. Einzig die ein oder andere visuelle Spielerei weiß zu gefallen. Insgesamt entbehrlich.

HAZE
Shinya Tsukamoto (2005) 6/10

Hier gelingt Tsukamoto eine durchaus bedrückende atmosphärische Darstellung klaustrophobischer Enge. Man fühlt als Zuschauer beinahe körperlich die Finsternis und Angst, der wie Labormäuse in einem Beton-Labyrinth eingeschlossenen Protagonisten. Die Verwandtschaft zum bekannteren CUBE ist offensichtlich. Der surreal inszenierte Schluss des Films lässt vermuten, dass Tsukamoto ein großer Fan von Kubriks 2001 ist. Am Ende bleiben alle Frage über Sinn und Unsinn des Betonsarges offen und der Zuschauer kann sich in wildeste Interpretationen versteigen. Er kann es aber auch, so wie ich, lassen.     

JITSUROKU ABE SADA – A Woman called Abe Sada
Noburo Tanaka (1975) 7,5/10

In the shadow of the foot ends on the same historically proven criminal case IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (AI NO KORIDA) need to work to fight for recognition. And actually, I like the whole film by Nagisa Oshima produced elaborate more. However, it creates a version of Tanaka's own vision to develop the case. The destructive, mutual sexual passion all the rationality of denying dependence was rarely staged similar urgent and radical.

VENGEANCE
Johnnie To (2009) 7,5 / 10

for his milieu in Triads angesiedelten Action-Reißer bekannte Hongkong-Regisseur Johnnie To, versuchte hier mit der Schaffung eines klassischen Revenge-Movies auf den Erfolg auf dem internationalen Kinomarkt zu schielen. Dies gelingt durch seine düster polierte Oberfläche und den überzogen stilisierten Schießereien auch sehr gut. Der Film kann somit vor allem atmosphärisch und in den Actionszenen punkten. Die Handlung selbst bietet leider nur die genreüblichen Stereotype, stört aber damit auch nicht weiter den visuellen Genuss.

ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU
Shunji Iwai (2001) 8,5/10

Eine wirklich großartige Study of Japanese youth, in all its bittersweet longing, their bewildered despair in their uninhibited cruelty. The green of the fields shines in almost unreal intensity and contrasts with the melancholy feeling of the protagonist. Although inspired me Yentown Iwai's still a piece of far more, but with ALL ABOUT ... he has created another impressive film, how do you get far too few, whether in Japan or the rest of the world in our cinemas.

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