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Tôkyô nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter, 1966)
"Otsuka! You call yourself a yakuza?"
"Money and power rule now. Honour means nothing!"
#Tôkyô nagaremono#tokyo drifter#seijun suzuki#japanese cinema#yakuza film#1966#Yasunori Kawauchi#tetsuya watari#chieko matsubara#hideaki nitani#tamio kawaji#ryûji kita#eiji gô#isao tamagawa#eimei esumi#tomoko hamakawa#takeshi yoshida#michio hino#shuntarô tamamura#shinzô shibata#yûzô kiura#hiroshi chô#an absolutely beautiful film; a visual masterpiece and a calculated fuck you from Suzuki. Nikkatsu‚ frustrated by the director's attempts#to inject avant garde visuals into their straight genre pieces‚ slashed his budget and his schedule and basically said make a yakuza film#and don't get weird. in response he delivered his most visually experimental piece to date‚ a pop art kaleidoscope take on the gangster#ballad which also critiques the lack of reward that comes from loyalty to a corporate system (i wonder what that could be about Seijun..)#and also manages to parody american western cinema and the burgeoning spy film boom. it isn't quite perfect (i get what the bar room brawl#scene is doing as pastiche‚ but it's still too long and too messy) but as a paring down of the themes of yakuza cinema (and then inverting#those themes‚ so that loyalty and honour become a weakness) mixed with the sheer joyful spectacle of the film is nothing short of joy#Watari and Matsubara would be reunited for the (excellent) Outlaw Gangster series‚ which plays these same tropes deadly straight
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Bad movie I have Blind Woman’s Curse 1970
#Blind Woman’s Curse#Dainichi-Eihai#Meiko Kaji#Hoki Tokuda#Makoto Satô#Hideo Sunazuka#Shirô Ôtsuji#Tôru Abe#Yoshi Katô#Yôko Takagi#Tatsumi Hijikata#Shirô Yanase#Shinzô Shibata#Ryôhei Uchida#Bumon Kahara#Akira Takahashi#Yûzô Harumi#Hiroshi Chô#Toshizô Kudô#Nobuko Aoki#Yoko Otaki#Masami Maki#Chieko Harada#Nobuko Yamabe#Yasue Nishihara#Iwae Arai#Kokan Katsura#Yoshihiko Tabata#Shirô Ôhama#Ken Mizoguchi
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Bad movie I have Tokyo Drifter 1966 aka Tôkyô nagaremono
#Tokyo Drifter#Nikkatsu#Tetsuya Watari#Chieko Matsubara#Hideaki Nitani#Tamio Kawaji#Ryûji Kita#Eiji Gô#Isao Tamagawa#Eimei Esumi#Tomoko Hamakawa#Tsuyoshi Yoshida#Michio Hino#Shuntarô Tamamura#Hiroshi Midorikawa#Hiroshi Chô#Akira Hisamatsu#Shinzô Shibata#Yûzô Kiura#Yû Izumi#Ikuo Nikaidô#Masaaki Honme#Shirô Tonami#Wataru Kobayashi#Mitsuru Sawa#Iwae Arai#Yôko Yokota#Hiroshi Takao#Kiyoshi Ôba#Tessen Nakahira
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