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Is anyone else a fan of his movies? I love crime related flicks involving gangsters, and Japan has some really interesting movies related to this genre, interesting and weird.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 09:56 |
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:08 |
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I really dug Sonatine but Beyond Outrage was impenetrable b/c I hadn't seen the first one that's all I've seen of this interesting filmmaker so far op
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:09 |
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Zatoichi - Just ok. Brother - Slow and contemplative and awkward. Johnny Mnemonic - lol! Gonin - Haven't seen it but it looks bad rear end going by the bits and pieces I see in Obituary () Battle Royale - Cheap entertainment. Great cornball dark comedy
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:13 |
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battle royale is a good time and i liked the outrage movies a lot op someone get big boy expo in here
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:21 |
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Brother definitely was slow, but I enjoyed the Japanese American crossover thing it had going on.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:25 |
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:35 |
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beat takeshi is known in japan mainly for being a wacky comedian and talk show host, i see him on like six shows a week being wacky and hosting talk shows
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:40 |
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lol if you don't watch Takeshi's Castle You're missing out on life matey
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:40 |
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Auritech posted:beat takeshi is known in japan mainly for being a wacky comedian and talk show host, i see him on like six shows a week being wacky and hosting talk shows Like Takeshi's Castle, which was retitled for American viewers as MXC. Most X-treme Challenge! Though you probably already know this.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:42 |
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Bitter Mushroom posted:lol if you don't watch Takeshi's Castle I see you beat me to it.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:43 |
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Also his videogame that is meant to be complete impossible bullshit because it was made by a guy who hates videogames.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:44 |
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Chucat posted:Also his videogame that is meant to be complete impossible bullshit because it was made by a guy who hates videogames. He has a videogame?
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:46 |
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Chatterbox posted:He has a videogame? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_no_Ch%C5%8Dsenj%C5%8D
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:46 |
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Violent cop: Just watch it for the scene where the guy shoots a school girl. I defy you to not raise an eyebrow at the scream. Sonatine: Dude wants to leave the mob, gets sent on a job to deal with a problem in a tropical paradise, but surprise, the job is actually his boss getting him killed. Features a black woman as a tall black woman, and a dude getting his finger cut off because it's Japan and they aren't very imaginative at thinking of things to do for fun on a tropical island with a tall black woman. Boiling Point: A dude imagines he's a gangster while he's having a poo poo in a port-a-john. At the end of the movie, the port-a-john gets knocked over and he drowns in vile blue liquid. At no point did it explain the process of boiling to my year 8 science students. C, see me after class. A scene at the Sea: Some bullshit about a surfer who says that his name is Nikita Kruschev. Only just when you think it's an hours-long boring film about the nature of an auter film director, it turns out that he _is_ Nikita Kruschev when he shoots down a U-2 and bangs his shoe on a table. Not historically accurate, though, since Garry Powers in real life was not played by a short Japanese woman. Fireworks: Policeman decides to rob a bank because there's no-one handy to cut a finger off of. It's Japan, you'd think that someone would have pointed out that electronic entertainment was an option. Anyway, a pile of folks get shot and a man gets stabbed in the eyeball with chopped sticks, which the person at the Teriyaki restaurant tells me isn't a traditional Japanese greeting. Which may have been helpful information at sizzle bento an hour earlier. Kikujiro: Some fat retarded kid gets driven around by a sullen gangster. I think that he gets shot in the rear end in a top hat and left to die in a dumpster at the end of another, better, movie. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence: An uplifting christmas tale that should be required viewing for the under-13s.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:47 |
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Very interesting, the people on these forums are very widely knowledgeable on such things that seem fairly obscure.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:50 |
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Beat Takeshi is hardly obscure.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:51 |
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GrrrlSweatshirt posted:battle royale is a good time and i liked the outrage movies a lot op beat takeshi is cool imo
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:52 |
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A bunch of GBS retards talking about kitano without talking about getting any, his best movie, LOL
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:54 |
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Oh, I have seen Kikujiro now that you mention it
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:55 |
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I need a car I can have sex in
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:55 |
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Al Cowens posted:Beat Takeshi is hardly obscure. In American culture he is a bit more obscure than you'd think. But I don't only mean just Mr Kitano, on other subjects as well.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 10:56 |
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I mean most people I know I could ask them if they know who he is, but I usually get confused or blank looks like wtf?
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 11:08 |
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The movies listed are mostly directed by him but he's acted in waaaaay more than he's directed.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 11:12 |
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Chatterbox posted:Like Takeshi's Castle, which was retitled for American viewers as MXC. Most X-treme Challenge! Though you probably already know this. You can't appreciate Takeshi's Castle without Craig Charles' racist commentary.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 11:19 |
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I really like the scene in Hanabi where Takeshi's crippled ex partner is has been trying to paint for a while and paints SUICIDE in big red characters in a simple field of white flowers then looks at it wearily for a bit before dashing a small pot of red paint across the canvas. Also the ending to Hanabi.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 11:36 |
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I liked Violent Cop. Also, reminder that he was not the director of Battle Royale. " Kinji Fukasaku stated that he decided to direct the film because the novel it was adapted from reminded him of his time as a 15-year-old munitions factory worker during World War II. At that time, his class was made to work in a munitions factory. In July 1945, the factory came under artillery fire. The children could not escape so they dived under each other for cover. The surviving members of the class had to dispose of the corpses. At that point, Fukasaku realised that the Japanese government was lying about World War II, and he developed a burning hatred of adults in general that he maintained for a long time afterwards.[5]"
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 12:32 |
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Chatterbox posted:He has a videogame? Yes and gently caress that other guy his game is one of the best. It's art. It should be on display in an art gallery.
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 12:34 |
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Sonatine is my favorite movie. I like how most of the violence in it is portrayed as something that happens out of nowhere and is over in a few seconds. It makes it way more horrifying then if it was built to and focused on. I also like how Kitano is ripping on his henchman's terrible hawaiian shirt the entire movie. edit: The best shootout in a bar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQVJ5JDGrpo a_gelatinous_cube fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Dec 18, 2014 |
# ? Dec 18, 2014 12:38 |
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there was a tall black woman in Sonatine? I don't remember that, but then again it's been a bit over two years since i've seen it
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 12:40 |
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Chatterbox posted:Like Takeshi's Castle, which was retitled for American viewers as MXC. Most X-treme Challenge! Though you probably already know this. This poo poo is up on Youtube it's the bomb
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 18:57 |
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how did i just realize takeshi kitano was on mxc(takeshi's castle)
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 18:58 |
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Gaunab posted:there was a tall black woman in Sonatine? I don't remember that, but then again it's been a bit over two years since i've seen it yeah, weirdly enough I just watched this and I don't know what the goon is talking about
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 19:03 |
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I loving love this guys stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AckphWhdyyk Just major lols allround
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# ? Dec 18, 2014 19:09 |
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skull wall posted:yeah, weirdly enough I just watched this and I don't know what the goon is talking about They dump her and her friend by the roadside in the middle of no-where shortly before they go to pick up the firearms from the dude whom they shoot under the flightpath in the field of Birds of Paradise. It is possible I'm thinking of one of his other films.
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 04:14 |
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He owns.
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 04:37 |
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Sonatine was fantastic. Hana-bi and Violent Cop are great. and the Outrage duology is worth a watch just to see him act with everyone. He made Johnny Mnemonic slightly more watchable.
Lawrence Gilchrist fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Dec 19, 2014 |
# ? Dec 19, 2014 05:10 |
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Gonin is really good. Kitano is interesting in it, he is more of an evil presence than a character; he didn't direct it though it was directed by some gay porn guy and it crackles with homoerotic energy. It's a gangster movie but the treatment of violence is more like a horror film, truly nightmarish and disorienting. Imagine like a gay japanese version of Blue Velvet and it's that. If that dont sound like a good time to you then I don't know what to tell you.
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# ? Dec 19, 2014 05:12 |
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Hana-bi is his best film, I think.
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