#Kaizo Hayashi

[zoirohs]

TO SLEEP SO AS TO DREAM (夢みるように眠りたい, 1986) dir. Kaizo Hayashi

[roseillith]

 夢みるように眠りたい // TO SLEEP SO AS TO DREAM (1986) dir. KAIZO HAYASHI

[shihlun]

Kaizo Hayashi

- The Most Terrible Time in My Life

1994

[sacredwhores]

Kaizo Hayashi - The Trap (1996)

[duchampscigarette]

Kaizo Hayashi - The Trap (1996)

[clemsfilmdiary]

To Sleep So as to Dream (1986, Kaizō Hayashi)

夢みるように眠りたい　（林海象）

5/19/23

[james-stark-the-writer]

oh wow, yeah, it's the best of the trilogy by a wide margin, it is not even remotely close, although there are parts that feel odd in their exclusion given the trajectory of the series so far, this feels more like a bonus chapter than a conclusion of the themes and ideas of the series, and it's also much more psychosexual drama ala Silence of the Lambs or even closer to giallo like Argento's Suspiria than it is neo-noir anything, really. this shit gets Freudian. this gives me a lot of the same feelings as Shyamalan's Split, except this is a much, much better and more ideologically cohesive and coherent movie. it's so shockingly rare you get to see a movie series get BETTER with every release. IMMEDIATELY one of my favorite movies of all time.

My ★★★★★ review of The Trap on Letterboxd

[ginkovskij]

My personal TOP 12 movies from 2024 (:

I wanted to do something like this since last year but for some reason (most likely out of embarassment) I ended up skipping on it. Well, now I am cringe and free and here are some of the best first watches from 2024, allegedly one film per month but realistically it's all messy because I watched too many bangers in May.

In order: Tampopo (1985), dir. Jūzō Itami The Match Factory Girl (1990), dir. Aki Kaurismäki One Wonderful Sunday (1947), dir. Akira Kurosawa To Sleep so as to Dream (1986), dir. Kaizo Hayashi Perfect Days (2023), dir. Wim Wenders Ulysses' Gaze (1995), dir. Theo Angelopoulos Seven Samurai (1954), dir. Akira Kurosawa The Beast Shall Die (1959), dir. Eizō Sugawa Throne of Blood (1957), dir. Akira Kurosawa The Bad Sleep Well (1960), dir. Akira Kurosawa Long Day's Journey into Night (2018), dir. Bi Gan Farewell, My Concubine (1993), dir. Chen Kaige

+ these others I couldn't fit in the official twelve, but I really liked a lot (:

[movierx]

Master Post: Japanese Films on Movie RX pt. 3

Pt1 Pt2

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985) dir. Macoto Tezuka

Knockout (1989) dir. Junji Sakamoto

Death Shadows (1986) dir. Hideo Gosha

To Sleep So as to Dream (1986) dir. Kaizo Hayashi

It’s a Summer Film! (2020) dir. Soushi Matsumoto

Fancy Dance (1989) dir. Masayuki Suo

Gemini (1999) dir. Shinya Tsukamoto

Hana-bi (1997) dir. Takeshi Kitano

Ichi the Killer (2001) dir. Takashi Miike 

[romdocitizen]

guess who just got a "hey if you're in town" category invite from their crush to hit up some kaizo hayashi screenings at japan society next month? this bitch 😌

[shiningwizard]

To Sleep So as to Dream (Hayashi Kaizo, 1986)

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[nejopolis]

Circus boys- Kaizo Hayashi

[roseillith]

 我が人生最悪の時 // THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE (1994) dir. KAIZO HAYASHI

[sacredwhores]

Kaizo Hayashi - The Trap (1996)

[zegalba]

To Sleep So As To Dream (1986) Directed by: Kaizo Hayashi

[shihlun]

Yokohama Mon Amour: Eiji Okada’s last film appearance.

Kaizo Hayashi

- The Stairway to the Distant Past                     

1995