nice to see a bit of discussion about the pinku films – i saw sex and fury yesterday, which wasn’t amazing, but quite fun.
the best of them, like the first three female prisoner scorpion films, lady snowblood, etc, are brilliantly unhinged, inventive, beautiful films. morally dubious, to an extent, yes, but especially with those examples i think there’s a genuine argument for seeing them as empowering their female heroines (patronising as that sounds).
funeral parade of roses is fab too, although i see it as located within a somewhat more ‘arthouse’ idiom, and i actually find it a lot harder to watch as it doesn’t seem intended to have the same sort of balls-to-the-wall, blood-splattering vicarious thrill in mind.
Favorite Pinku Eiga Film? over 2 years ago
nice to see a bit of discussion about the pinku films – i saw sex and fury yesterday, which wasn’t amazing, but quite fun.
the best of them, like the first three female prisoner scorpion films, lady snowblood, etc, are brilliantly unhinged, inventive, beautiful films. morally dubious, to an extent, yes, but especially with those examples i think there’s a genuine argument for seeing them as empowering their female heroines (patronising as that sounds).
funeral parade of roses is fab too, although i see it as located within a somewhat more ‘arthouse’ idiom, and i actually find it a lot harder to watch as it doesn’t seem intended to have the same sort of balls-to-the-wall, blood-splattering vicarious thrill in mind.
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