Brother - Takeshi Kitano

American Flyers - John Badham

Kurosawa (documentary) - Adam Low

Sixth Sense and Matrix Reloaded on it's way from www.cleanfilms.com as we type.

Ran | Akira Kurosawa

Ichi the Killer | Takashi Miike

Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl | Katsuhito Ishii

Ran is completely amazing.

Ran is completely amazing.

word :beer:

Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto | Hiroshi Inagaki

A Snake of June | Shinya Tsukamoto

Samurai I - Musashi Miyamoto | Hiroshi Inagaki



Read the book!! Better than the movies, and will explain the unexplained. Awesome!


MUSASHI (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4770019572/qid=1139841578/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8739468-6055057?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)

Ringu | Hideo Nakata

Ringu 2 | Hideo Nakata

Read the book!! Better than the movies, and will explain the unexplained. Awesome!


MUSASHI (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/4770019572/qid=1139841578/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8739468-6055057?s=books&v=glance&n=283155)


mifune :beer:

will put this in my longterm queue, but it's almost 1,000 pages long :o

got Herbert Bix's Hirohito biography and James Toland's The Rising Sun coming up next

Shameless Season one! Ace! :beer:

mifune :beer:

will put this in my longterm queue, but it's almost 1,000 pages long :o

got Herbert Bix's Hirohito biography and James Toland's The Rising Sun coming up next

You'll wish it was longer, seriously. As for Inagaki, make sure to watch *his* CHUSHINGURA (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055850/usercomments). Its a film that brings me to tears every time I watch it. Many famous actors have small parts. Mifune, Setsuko Hara, Yuzo Kayama, Reiko Dan, and many more faces that I can't put to names. I'll have to watch it sometime this week...

Witch Hunter Robin. Sherlock Holmes w/ Ronald Howard and Howard Marion Crawford.
Nero Wolfe. Anything cheesy in the vain of Hammer Horror.

last week:

Lords of Dogtown,
Batman Begins,
and Malcolm X

Taboo | Nagisa Oshima

Last Life in the Universe | Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

A State of Mind | Daniel Gordon

Master And Commander
Serenity--Yeah. What's her name rocks, she's the ultra babe-age of all time, heroin chic's last hurrah...

syriana

Seven Samurai | Akira Kurosawa

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple | Hiroshi Inagaki

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island | Hiroshi Inagaki

2LDK | Yukihiko Tsutsumi

Chaos | Hideo Nakata

Bright Future | Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Buddy Boy - Mark Hanlon

El Embrujo de Shanghai (Shanghai Spell) - Fernando Trueba

Kikujiro | Takeshi Kitano

Pistol Opera | Seijun Suzuki

Doppelganger | Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Charisma | Kiyoshi Kurosawa

As soon as Amazon delivers, the Director's cut of Cinema Paradiso.

Angels in America (great)

Zachariah (meh)

Mean Streets (again)

Memory of a Killer | Erik Van Looy

The War Within | Joseph Castelo

The Soprano's

City of God

The Motorcycle Diaries

A Funny Story About Six and Nine | Pen-Ek Ratanaruang

Ninja Scroll | Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Triumph des Willens | Leni Riefenstahl

Palindromes | Todd Solondz

The Stratosphere Girl | M.X. Oberg

The Eel | Shohei Imamura

Kikoku | Takashi Miike

Wallace and Grommit - The Curse of the Wererabbit

Last week's netflix disks were:
1) BSG S2 Disk1: loved it
2) Transporter 2: I was expecting a brain dead action flick. The movie actually exceeded my expectations for crapiness. Loved it as a comedy. Hated it in every other way possible.
3) Ed Wood: Couldn't get into it.

This week will be: BSG S2 Disk 2, disk 3, and lady and the tramp for my 2 1/2 year old.

DOOM ~ Great shoot 'em-up Sci-Fi, terrible injustice to the video game.

Dead Man w/ Johnny Depp. A NetFlix review said "If you don't like long drawn out metaphors, you won't like this movie." I'm still trying to figure out the metaphor.

L'Avventura - Antonioni

Great film. Actress Lea Massari is a goddess.

Hustle and Flow

...

Dead Man w/ Johnny Depp.

...:beer:







Sabu | Takashi Miike


this film sucked, bad

city of god

"The dreams of sparrows" -documentary about Iraq by Iraqis. good flick :beer:

city of god


Also a good flick :)

http://www.mallcom.com/store/fr/DVDVIVID1194.jpg

All About Lily Chou-Chou | Shunji Iwai


:beer: x10

Ice Harvest w/ John Cusack and Billy Bob Thorton

http://www.mallcom.com/store/fr/DVDVIVID1194.jpg

Interesting, revealing. I take it that you like to (self) abuse more than just your crankarms.

Bullet Ballet | Shinya Tsukamoto

Battle Royale | Kinji Fukasaku

Visitor Q | Takashi Miike

Stray Dog | Akira Kurosawa

...

Criterion's new release of Ugetsu is a great intro to Kenji Mizoguchi.

...

Where can I find more Mizoguchi????I have Ugetsu in my Netflix queue and 47 Ronin is at the local video store. But I can't find anything else, and he's directed around 80+ films.

Link I got off Kinema Club Japan said the Holy Trinity is Ozu, Kurosawa and Mizoguchi. I already have a ton of Kurosawa and Ozu in my queue and am familiar with them--but I can't find anything, but the two films mentioned above, from Mizoguchi.

:(

(I can't wait for more Ozu stuff from Netflix!!! :beer: )

Most of the ones that I have that have not been released yet in DVD are in VHS--all old but still servicable. There are a few R2 DVDs from GB, but I might wait for the R1 releases of those titles. You can get a copy of THE TAIRA CLAN here (http://www.kurotokagi.com/), in the Samurai section.

Its fustrating if not infuriating--such a great director with a fantastic body of work. I just watched SANSHO THE BAILIFF a few nights ago. You might want to watch Inagaki's CHUSHINGURA before tackling THE 47 RONIN. The latter has often been reviewed as slow, which it is, but if you know the story his version is very interesting in how it was portrayed given the time period in which it was produced. The framing and lighting in the opening scene are sublime. I was so luckyto get my own copy of now OOP THE 47 RONIN. They are now selling for about $200. ea.

bleh, I hate VHS

grrr--I noticed a lot of Ozu's stuff is only available on VHS as well :(

luckily a lot more Ozu stuff is in the process of getting released on DVD, via Tartan and others--unfortunately Mizoguchi stuff still isn't :crash:

very frustrating

'The end of suburbia'... ditch your motor vehicles!!! I say we melt down every suv and use the metal to build every boy and girl a shiney new bicycle!

The Mayor of Sunset Strip.
Rodney Bingenhiemer bio film. Interesting.

Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky

Vital | Shinya Tsukamoto

Twilight Samurai | Yoji Yamada

Ronin Gai | Kazuo Kuroki

Red Shadow: Akakage | Hiroyuki Nakano

Blade Runner - Ridley Scott

munich

Spongebob the movie - my toddler's movie
Mean Creek
KMFDM WWIII Tour live.

Twilight Samurai | Yoji Yamada




Tasogare Sebei. Awesome.