#japanese new wave

[disease]

"EVERYTHING VISIBLE IS EMPTY" @ EMPTY GALLERY, HK | SEPT 9–NOV 18, 2017 TOSHIO MATSUMOTO 松本 俊夫 | 1975

Everything Visible Is Empty seeks to embrace Matsumoto's trenchant critique of 'the visible—the ideologically constructed gaze which conjures social reality—by forgoing a curatorial approach based on stylistic or chronological groupings and instead presenting a non-linear mosaic of works from different contexts and eras.

[to-be-loved-by-death]

Proud of this one I hope people like it!

[screencappleby]

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) - dir. Toshio Matusmoto

[honeygleam]

the sun's burial (1960) dir. nagisa ōshima

[naturezamorta]

Demons 修羅, 1971, Toshio Matsumoto.

[fashionlandscapeblog]

砂の女, Suna No Onna (Woman in the Dunes), 1964 - dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara

[loneberry]

Demon Pond (夜叉ヶ池), directed by Masahiro Shinoda (1979)

Kabuki camp! Yokai cosplay! Somehow this film struck a satisfying balance between riotous fun and lovelorn melancholy. I knew I was in for a wild ride when, in the beginning of the film, a village woman tries to cleanse the dust lodged in the traveler’s eye with breast milk squirted straight from her teat.

There were scenes that seemed directly culled from my dreams… the wall of water, the threatened village, the tinkle becoming glissandi in the Harp Playing Valley. It must be a primordial structure of the human psyche—that uncanny feeling you get looking at a body of water, when it appears somehow volitional, perhaps ominously so. It is dreaming. It is sentient. It is a prison… Who is held captive to these waters? A princess in love, ready to unleash her fury.

File under oneiric cinema.

[vcasih]

funeral parade of roses, dir. toshio matsumoto (1969)

[schlock-luster-video]

On October 29, 1970, Funeral Parade of Roses debuted in the United States.

[cinemaobscura]

Funeral Parade of Roses | 薔薇の葬列 (1969) dir. Toshio Matsumoto

[deadokidoki]

[leaving-no-shadow]

Pastoral: To Die in the Country, 1974

Directed by Shūji Terayama

Cinematography by Tatsuo Suzuki

[escapismthroughfilm]

#102

[waste-it-on-something-useful]

Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969)

[mfcst]

[screencappleby]

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969) - dir. Toshio Matsumoto