#Pink Film

[videoreligion]

High Heeled Punishers (Monzetsu!! Oshioki haihiiru - 1995)

[l-ultimo-squalo]

School of the Holy Beast aka Convent of the Sacred Beast (1974) dir. Norifumi Suzuki

[cinemaobscura]

Angel Guts: Red Vertigo | 天使のはらわた 赤い眩暈 (1988) dir. Takashi Ishii

[delusions-inpink]

[pink-dvrkness]

it’s too late now

[sallymayblondeenka]

Sachiko Kako AKA サリー・メイ(Sally May) In a promotional picture for Rashamen Oman: らしゃめんお万 彼岸花は散った AKA Foreigner's Mistress Oman: Holland Slope in the Rain(1972)

[muskming]

男たちの夢音色 (Men's Dream Tone / Otoko-tachi no yume neiro) 2007 Japanese pinku film directed by 竹洞哲也 Tetsuya Takehora

[augustinthewater1995]

save the last dance for me (1986, dir. hisayasu sato)

[radicalhelmet]

waiting for the aesthetic that's a cross between "coquettecore this-is-what-makes-us-girls stuff" and "vengeful pinku eiga heroine". like the lana del rey girlie is drenched in blood and Closing In On Your Location. in 16mm. or something. idk i've had a lot of wine tonight

[videoreligion]

High Heeled Punishers (Monzetsu!! Oshioki haihiiru - 1995)

[cinemaobscura]

Man, Woman and The Wall | 聴かれた女 (2006) dir. Yamamoto Masashi

[atraxm0rgu3]

Kōji Wakamatsu

The Secrets Behind The Walls (1965)

Analysis ⤵

Kôji Wakamatsu "When desires, violations and sexual hopeless souls turn into abstract political concerns"

The movie begins with this scene, a very wide open desirous eye belonging to Makato (a failed student obcessed with american pornography magazines) staring into our empty minds, immediately making us feel the intense and suffocating atmosphere of voyeurism . 

" The eye contains man´s whole world, his inner essence..." as the Bambara people say.

Now take a look...

As the film develops an eye scene reappears, but each time different, we see a more closed eye, a darker side of the mind, a loss of conscience, malicious voyeurism.

A look of malice and violence, such a disorder devoured with the wish for decadence. Wakamatsu uses the layering tecnique to express it more intensively, overlaping Makato`s eye whit dark images. S By the end of the movie, before the boy erupts and makes his sister and his neighbor victims of his frustations, the last eye scene appears...

The last sigh, the last drop of this frustation falls, between his sister naked body while the silk bath foam slips between her thighs, reflecting in Makato's obscene dark eye...

The "empty scenes" occupy a big part of this film, perhaps one of the best scenarios to show it, it`s also at the beginning : the sedentary windows.

"it feels like we are in a prison, so closed" "after all, Japan is full of these crates, full of cubicles."

Home becomes the most dangerous place, the characters can`t get rid of themselves and their hopeless thoughts, broken dreams... So... like monkeys in a room full of mirrors, they start to lose themselves, things start to fall apart, realities start to lack meaning...

I end this analysis whit the iconic image, of the affair whit the keloid scar man and Stalin`s poster on the background .Wispering :

"You are the symbol of anti-war, I will never forget war, until I  still love you..."

Actually, this woman is more in love for what her lover stands for, than her lover by itself. By his keloid, the perfect metaphor for a anti-war symbol.

You can see, how all this is a critic, a political abstract critic...

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[whatever-letmebe]

So, I was feeling curious (and bored) again and this time decided to watch The Shortest Distance is Round [because somebody, by which I mean @gillyweedgrl, told me not to watch it yet and that just made me want to watch it immediately, of course]. It was meh. Fucked up but not in a way that gave me any strong reactions / emotions. I'm actually kinda relieved. But there are more installments and I think I will watch all of them at some point. I can't not do it.

Update: Okay, I've watched part 2 now and liked it much more. Now I feel a bit hopeless and empty. (Goal achieved, I guess?) That was good, in a fucked-up, I-don't-need-to-experience-it-a-second-time kinda way. Some parts are so absurd that it borders on funny. And I assume that's intended. Like the love story between the two henchmen. Or the fact that for some reason, every man just really wants to fuck Haruto / Yuki. Visually, part 2 was also more interesting imo. Loved the pole dancing.

2nd Update: Alright, I'm watching part 3 right now and I'm just having fun xD There's a magical metallic dick, there's two goofy henchmen (one of them used to be an IT guy and wanted a career change), there's lots of torture. Also lots of sex but none of it is hot to me. People go absolutely wild for the person they love in this universe. I want Haruto and Ruka to become murder husbands. Ooh, the magical metal dildo is also a dagger?! Hell yeah, seeing Shibahara get murdered was glorious! The Shortest Distance really did the "I was behind everything all along" plot twist twice, huh. Staying true to the movie's name, I see. Good for you, Ruka, and your killer dick. Or well, maybe not good for you, after all? (unclear)

Anyways, it's 2:30 am now. I had a bad headache earlier but The Shortest Distance has cured me. This was a cool experience. Actually not as dark as I thought it would be (the mood / atmosphere of the films, I mean. The plot is extremely dark.)

[almostlookedhuman]

[sallymayblondeenka]

サリー・メイ(Sally May) in Rashamen Oman: Higanbana wa chitta らしゃめんお万 彼岸花は散った (1972) AKA FOREIGNER'S MISTRESS OMAN: FALLING AUTUMN FLOWER.

[muskming]

変態夫婦の過激愛 (Kageki!! Hentai fûfu) 1988 Japanese pinku film directed by 細山智明 Tomoaki Hosoyama