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@HarellieQuinn Gonna take a random guess that it’s speed racer
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ that's how i feel too. idk why but it seems to me like Salaar is headed towards a climax where only one between Deva and Varadha survives
Just watched Drive My Car. Love how it retains Murakami’s penchant for annoying sex scenes. This one’s my favorite
@SaladinoWRLD Maybe rutschman is secretly good at calling games
@TheGayChingy I can buy them being Fukasaku riffs but I think the second one especially has some interesting elements of humor where the yakuza start going through the motions of traditional rituals again as soon as it becomes beneficial
@TheGayChingy Mostly I think the outrage movies are really funny, and I enjoy the blue filter aesthetic in the first film (can’t remember if it carries over to the others).
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ Which is to say Ryuzo and the Outrage trilogy. I think they’re just BWHOH knockoffs mostly with nothing interesting to say even when the action is good. But I have been DESPERATELY waiting for Kubi Also I really just don’t like Zatoichi even though I like Katsu Zatoichi
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ You are definitely making me want to give it a rewatch. And like I said I like the surreal trilogy. I guess what I will say is that I think the Hisaishi period is the best to me and that I do believe he declined majorly and has been largely phoning it in post Office Kitano.
@TheGayChingy I have, though the gestalt of Kitano/Beat is why I still respond to his later films. So much in the surreal trilogy is about struggling with artistry vis-à-vis commerciality; crafted personae and archetypes confining him to certain types of art and audience expectations; etc.
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ Like that dichotomy shifts from Takeshi Kitano to Beat Takeshi. Idk he just does so much otherwise too. Have you seen him tap
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ I guess it just feels really telling to me that he said he no longer wanted to pay Hisaishi’s high rates and that a similar thing happened with Office Kitano’s collapse. I don’t think the work is bad I just think there stops being any emotional impact after that I guess?
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ There is unfortunately not much in English. I scoured the net for the Rayns ones though and am re copy editing them to share (poorly archived on a now defunct fan site)
@TheGayChingy Though I think that actually started with Dolls
@TheGayChingy I view it more as a stylistic shift toward self-reflexivity where his motifs (doubles, angels, oceans, flowers, etc.) are pushed to absurd degrees and parodied
@TheGayChingy I’ll have to read that Abe book. Other than Sean Redmond’s book I’ve struggled to find other in depth writing on Kitano. I don’t really agree on the post-Dolls decline.
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ I’m NGL I am the only American critic I know who has really studied Kitano in-depth as an artist beyond gangster stuff. Otherwise it’s mostly Brits. Rayns did a lot of Sight & Sound coverage from at least Kids Return to Dolls that’s really informative but hard to find Also this
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ Specifically his separation from Hisaishi ended his major period. And the dissolution of Office Kitano represents another related to personal turmoil that Rayns (who introduced him to the west) perfectly explains here x.com/thegaychingy/s…
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ Specifically his separation from Hisaishi ended his major period. And the dissolution of Office Kitano represents another related to personal turmoil that Rayns (who introduced him to the west) perfectly explains here x.com/thegaychingy/s…
@_Hokuto_No_Ben_ So I agree with like all of that. surreal is some of most interesting. I’m a hardcore Takeshis’ defender and maybe one of the only people to give both Achilles and Ryuzo 5 stars on LB. And i do think Beyond is pretty good. BUT, I do stand by a post-DOLLS decline