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Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.
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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Kharnifex
Sep 11, 2001

The Banter is better in AusGBS

Harime Nui
Apr 15, 2008

The New Insincerity
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

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois
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 (:nws:)
Battle Royale - Cheap entertainment. Great cornball dark comedy

GrrrlSweatshirt
Jun 2, 2012
battle royale is a good time and i liked the outrage movies a lot op

someone get big boy expo in here

Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.
Brother definitely was slow, but I enjoyed the Japanese American crossover thing it had going on.

Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.

Auritech
May 27, 2004

Blessed be the tailors
The masks are cut to fit

Blessed be the woodworkers
The crosses and the gallows

Blessed be the forgers of iron
And the spikes and the barbwire

Blessed be the stone cutters
It took a quarry to bury the dreams
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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Apr 8, 2012

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lol if you don't watch Takeshi's Castle

You're missing out on life matey

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Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.

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.

Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.

Bitter Mushroom posted:

lol if you don't watch Takeshi's Castle

You're missing out on life matey

I see you beat me to it.

Chucat
Apr 14, 2006

Also his videogame that is meant to be complete impossible bullshit because it was made by a guy who hates videogames.

Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.

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?

Chucat
Apr 14, 2006

Chatterbox posted:

He has a videogame?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_no_Ch%C5%8Dsenj%C5%8D

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012
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.

Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.
Very interesting, the people on these forums are very widely knowledgeable on such things that seem fairly obscure.

Al Cowens
Aug 11, 2004

by WE B Bourgeois
Beat Takeshi is hardly obscure.

big black turnout
Jan 13, 2009



Fallen Rib

GrrrlSweatshirt posted:

battle royale is a good time and i liked the outrage movies a lot op

someone get big boy expo in here

beat takeshi is cool imo

A CRUNK BIRD
Sep 29, 2004
A bunch of GBS retards talking about kitano without talking about getting any, his best movie, LOL

Harime Nui
Apr 15, 2008

The New Insincerity
Oh, I have seen Kikujiro now that you mention it

A CRUNK BIRD
Sep 29, 2004
I need a car I can have sex in

Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.

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.

Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.
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?

Chatterbox
Jul 17, 2014

When the going gets weird, the weird go professional.
The movies listed are mostly directed by him but he's acted in waaaaay more than he's directed.

RainMaker
Oct 25, 2012

This is me every time you post.

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.

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
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.

Hector Beerlioz
Jun 16, 2010

aw, hec
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]"

burritolingus
Nov 6, 2007

by Ralp

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.

a_gelatinous_cube
Feb 13, 2005

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

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
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

Tujague
May 8, 2007

by LadyAmbien

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

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
how did i just realize takeshi kitano was on mxc(takeshi's castle)

skull wall
Jul 29, 2012

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

spud
Aug 27, 2003

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
I loving love this guys stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AckphWhdyyk

Just major lols allround

IPCRESS
May 27, 2012

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.

Lil Swamp Booger Baby
Aug 1, 1981

He owns.

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

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

swamp waste
Nov 4, 2009

There is some very sensual touching going on in the cutscene there. i don't actually think it means anything sexual but it's cool how it contrasts with modern ideas of what bad ass stuff should be like. It even seems authentic to some kind of chivalric masculine touching from a tyme longe gone
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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Minitrue
Aug 6, 2010
Hana-bi is his best film, I think.

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