Does anyone know where I can find this 2003 Japanese movie called ‘Hachi-Ichi-Go’ (or ‘815’)? I really, really want to see it and I just don’t know where to find it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390071/
Zero votes on IMDb!
Does anyone know of a website where we can download it for free, or if there is a DVD? (doubtful)
This is the review which brought my attention to it:
“Almost literally overflowing with storylines and satirical jibes, this is the smartest and sparkiest sign of life in Japan’s indie sector in several years. It borrows the structure of Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (a 24-hour span, with each episode matching a section in the book) and crams it with characters and incidents derived from Japan’s creation myth Kojiki. The central figures are brassy call-girl Daisy and her gay chauffeur Takeru, also a ventriloquist, who suffer many indignities as they pursue their trades and desires; seeming digressions include a mockumentary about a Korean-Japanese woman looking for her Korean roots, and investigation into the sex massage industry and the use of melon seeds to save Japan from nuclear attack. The title references the date (15 August 1945) of Hirohito’s surrender in WWII, and the underlying thrust is that Japan has remained stuck in the imperial mindset of that time; the emperor, it notes cheekily, is a giant phallus in need of deflation. The mix of conceptual sophistication and vulgar humour is entirely cherishable.”
before i was a hardcore movie fan, literature was my passion. but around january 2009 i started to watch movies (like, really seriously) and since january last year i’ve probably watched close to 1000. now i have two passions!
there’s actually a guy on that ghastly rottentomatoes.com who’s watched more than 10.000 films since 2004. he’s retired, so…
the french new wave now, especially godard movies, is generally discussed a lot nowadays when compared to, let’s say, ingmar bergman. it’s obvious that its influence is probably not as great as a welles movie or a griffith movie, but cassavetes and godard (and the others of the sort) definitely contributed to make filmmaking (like i usually say) more “aerodynamic”. and let’s not forget that it was the influence of the new wave (and, to add, the european cinema of the 60’s) that made hollywood reborn after the end of the golden years — for example, look at ‘bonnie and clyde’.
h. jackson, i think the ending is emotionally manipulative because it’s so obviously made for people to cry (violins, etc) without the least subtlety (not like the “inferno” sequence, which was truly heart-wrenching). many films are manipulative when it comes to that, obviously, but in toy story 3 i just thought it was exaggerated, with andy and the girl and the toys. TOO sugary for me, perhaps.
i was very young when i saw the first toy story.
two weeks ago i read ‘crime and punishment’. gripping, but i don’t see it as a masterpiece. still prefer tolstoy. now i’m reading ‘lolita’ (heaven knows why i’m not finished with it already) and it will likely become my favourite book ever!! next it’s saramago’s ‘levantado do chão’.
polaris, cinematon is just a really big collection of 3-minute silent shorts (so you don’t have to watch it in one big marathon) where an artist (invited by the director) does whatever he wants with the time he’s given. it’s like a (ultimate, perhaps?) chance of preserving some bit of the artist, i guess.
those are good points, polaris, in trying to find out objectively if the “thing” is a movie or a collection. but if we dig deeper and elaborate the points we ultimately conclude that the concept is subjective, and that what is called a movie or not a movie is something individual, just like a stone in a museum is art for some people and for others isn’t, or just like trying to figure out if something’s “good” or “bad”.
i can’t believe i spent so much time on rotten tomatoes instead of here.
so, polaris, if you see it as a challenge, you read the big books and watch the big movies just because they then stand as personal triumphs? you have probably read the proust work, but there are others you can try and that i know of but haven’t read, like jules romain’s ‘les hommes de bonne volonté’ (published in about 27 novels) - unanimism, some obscure turn-oft-the-century philosophy -, and the scuderys’ ‘artamene’ (published in 10 novels).
i can’t find ‘1001 nights’, unfortunately. the latest edition in portuguese sold out quickly and i can’t find another either in portuguese or english. the longest i’ve read was indeed ‘war and peace’ (i hate the second epilogue, by the way. i wanted to slap tolstoy in the face) or ‘the lord of the rings’, which can be considered a novel containing the 3, like it was intended in the first place.
doesn’t exist, obviously. it’s like saying cherry (or organge or grape or pear) is the tastiest fruit ever. i’m surprised people on this website post such a question and think it can be answered.
chanandre, i think by a canon that’s made to sell you mean the AFI list of 100 greatest american movies (made by people who chose movies everyone already saw, hence making it useless), not exactly the 1001 list. picking “must-see” movies is a dubious concept enough by itself, so a great part of the 1001 list being american stems, i believe, from the fact that american cinema is almost certainly the most bountiful and richest. it wouldn’t be excactly a “must-see” list if one made a list taking into acount geographical quotas or whatnot.
i hear some people saying rosenbaum’s list of 1000 movies is a canon. it’s not. he said it simply was his favourite 1000 movies, not a canon, and definintely wasn’t planned to feature a certain amount of films from every country.
i only now just noticed the title of his list is “jonathan rosenbaum’s 1000 essential films”, but here is an excerpt of an interview made by someone from imdb.
“Q – One person thinks that despite the many foreign entries, there’s an underrepresentation of Northern, Eastern and Southern European films, countries such as Norway, Sweden (apart from Bergman – how about Victor Sjostrom?), Greece (Angelopolous?), Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (pre-1990), Holland, Romania, Spain, Hungary or Poland? Is it because there seems to be a lack of auteurs in the area? But what about such masters like Lucian Pintilie or Juraj Jakubisko?
A – I didn’’t say anything about a lack of auteurs anywhere. I’m talking about films that matter a lot to me personally—which include at least a few things by Chytilova (Czech), Makavejev (Yugoslav), Jancso and Tarr (Hungarian). But sorry, but I don’t have any particular geographical quotas when it comes to selecting favorites."
HELP! I NEED TO FIND THIS MOVIE!! almost 3 years ago
Does anyone know where I can find this 2003 Japanese movie called ‘Hachi-Ichi-Go’ (or ‘815’)? I really, really want to see it and I just don’t know where to find it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390071/
Zero votes on IMDb!
Does anyone know of a website where we can download it for free, or if there is a DVD? (doubtful)
This is the review which brought my attention to it:
“Almost literally overflowing with storylines and satirical jibes, this is the smartest and sparkiest sign of life in Japan’s indie sector in several years. It borrows the structure of Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ (a 24-hour span, with each episode matching a section in the book) and crams it with characters and incidents derived from Japan’s creation myth Kojiki. The central figures are brassy call-girl Daisy and her gay chauffeur Takeru, also a ventriloquist, who suffer many indignities as they pursue their trades and desires; seeming digressions include a mockumentary about a Korean-Japanese woman looking for her Korean roots, and investigation into the sex massage industry and the use of melon seeds to save Japan from nuclear attack. The title references the date (15 August 1945) of Hirohito’s surrender in WWII, and the underlying thrust is that Japan has remained stuck in the imperial mindset of that time; the emperor, it notes cheekily, is a giant phallus in need of deflation. The mix of conceptual sophistication and vulgar humour is entirely cherishable.”
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HELP! I NEED TO FIND THIS MOVIE!! almost 3 years ago
Does that mean I should hire someone who can speak Japanese so that he can call somewhere in Japan or go to the Japanese websites?
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what is la dolce vita's true running time almost 3 years ago
according to imdb.
174 min | Germany:177 min (premiere) | Portugal:165 min (re-release) | USA:180 min (premiere)
“marcello, come here!!”
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RAPPER COMMON'S FIVE FAVORITE FILMS almost 3 years ago
meh list. 3 of those look like everyone’s choices.
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how have people on this site become so knowledgeable... almost 3 years ago
before i was a hardcore movie fan, literature was my passion. but around january 2009 i started to watch movies (like, really seriously) and since january last year i’ve probably watched close to 1000. now i have two passions!
there’s actually a guy on that ghastly rottentomatoes.com who’s watched more than 10.000 films since 2004. he’s retired, so…
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IS THE FRENCH NEW WAVE STILL RELEVANT TODAY? almost 3 years ago
the french new wave now, especially godard movies, is generally discussed a lot nowadays when compared to, let’s say, ingmar bergman. it’s obvious that its influence is probably not as great as a welles movie or a griffith movie, but cassavetes and godard (and the others of the sort) definitely contributed to make filmmaking (like i usually say) more “aerodynamic”. and let’s not forget that it was the influence of the new wave (and, to add, the european cinema of the 60’s) that made hollywood reborn after the end of the golden years — for example, look at ‘bonnie and clyde’.
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This forum is turning into RottenTomatoes almost 3 years ago
roffle, jirin.
i actually think the ending of toy story 3 is disgustingly manipulative.
and please, NOT ROTTEN TOMATOES AGAIN!!
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This forum is turning into RottenTomatoes almost 3 years ago
h. jackson, i think the ending is emotionally manipulative because it’s so obviously made for people to cry (violins, etc) without the least subtlety (not like the “inferno” sequence, which was truly heart-wrenching). many films are manipulative when it comes to that, obviously, but in toy story 3 i just thought it was exaggerated, with andy and the girl and the toys. TOO sugary for me, perhaps.
i was very young when i saw the first toy story.
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This forum is turning into RottenTomatoes almost 3 years ago
i’ll say that toy story 3 is incredibly, and i mean SPECTACULARLY, directed.
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This forum is turning into RottenTomatoes almost 3 years ago
and has anyone noticed the last two villains are elders? shouldn’t they have thought about it better? for the kids’ sake, i mean?
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The Auteurs Book Club almost 3 years ago
two weeks ago i read ‘crime and punishment’. gripping, but i don’t see it as a masterpiece. still prefer tolstoy. now i’m reading ‘lolita’ (heaven knows why i’m not finished with it already) and it will likely become my favourite book ever!! next it’s saramago’s ‘levantado do chão’.
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In the Beginning There Was Film... And It Was Good almost 3 years ago
somewhere around december 2008 (18 years old) i bought ‘1001 movies you must see before you die’. about 1000 movies later since then, here i am!!
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In the Beginning There Was Film... And It Was Good almost 3 years ago
because i haven’t watched them all. from that list only around 600. the book was just the boost!
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MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA almost 3 years ago
heaven would mean oliveira directing a saramago novel.
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avatar's cinematic re-release almost 3 years ago
bad joke:
where do injured navii go? to the ICU clinic!!! RIMSHOT
don’t like this movie.
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avatar's cinematic re-release almost 3 years ago
isn’t it ironic? the message of the movie is about fighting ruthless capitalism and “that sort” of technology. cameron is a well of contradictions.
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The Longest film ever made almost 3 years ago
all wrong! the longest film ever released is ‘cinematon’, running 150 hours, which is sometimes screened in its entirety.
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The Longest film ever made almost 3 years ago
http://mubi.com/films/27670
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The Longest film ever made almost 3 years ago
polaris, cinematon is just a really big collection of 3-minute silent shorts (so you don’t have to watch it in one big marathon) where an artist (invited by the director) does whatever he wants with the time he’s given. it’s like a (ultimate, perhaps?) chance of preserving some bit of the artist, i guess.
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The Longest film ever made almost 3 years ago
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The Longest film ever made almost 3 years ago
it depends. i call ‘cinematon’ a movie like i call ‘les vampires’ a movie.
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The Longest film ever made almost 3 years ago
those are good points, polaris, in trying to find out objectively if the “thing” is a movie or a collection. but if we dig deeper and elaborate the points we ultimately conclude that the concept is subjective, and that what is called a movie or not a movie is something individual, just like a stone in a museum is art for some people and for others isn’t, or just like trying to figure out if something’s “good” or “bad”.
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The Longest film ever made almost 3 years ago
i can’t believe i spent so much time on rotten tomatoes instead of here.
so, polaris, if you see it as a challenge, you read the big books and watch the big movies just because they then stand as personal triumphs? you have probably read the proust work, but there are others you can try and that i know of but haven’t read, like jules romain’s ‘les hommes de bonne volonté’ (published in about 27 novels)
- unanimism, some obscure turn-oft-the-century philosophy -, and the scuderys’ ‘artamene’ (published in 10 novels).i can’t find ‘1001 nights’, unfortunately. the latest edition in portuguese sold out quickly and i can’t find another either in portuguese or english. the longest i’ve read was indeed ‘war and peace’ (i hate the second epilogue, by the way. i wanted to slap tolstoy in the face) or ‘the lord of the rings’, which can be considered a novel containing the 3, like it was intended in the first place.
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Anyone know where I can find these films? almost 3 years ago
The Ballad of Narayama (Narayama bushiko)
Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza)
these are pretty easy to find on the web, i think. i have ‘man of iron’ on my coputer but haven’t watched yet.
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Anyone know where I can find these films? almost 3 years ago
oh, never mind….
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Greatest Movie of All Time almost 3 years ago
doesn’t exist, obviously. it’s like saying cherry (or organge or grape or pear) is the tastiest fruit ever. i’m surprised people on this website post such a question and think it can be answered.
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When Did You Begin to Movie Away from the Canon? almost 3 years ago
chanandre, i think by a canon that’s made to sell you mean the AFI list of 100 greatest american movies (made by people who chose movies everyone already saw, hence making it useless), not exactly the 1001 list. picking “must-see” movies is a dubious concept enough by itself, so a great part of the 1001 list being american stems, i believe, from the fact that american cinema is almost certainly the most bountiful and richest. it wouldn’t be excactly a “must-see” list if one made a list taking into acount geographical quotas or whatnot.
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Meaningless Thread (Absmurdity) almost 3 years ago
where am i?
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When Did You Begin to Movie Away from the Canon? almost 3 years ago
i hear some people saying rosenbaum’s list of 1000 movies is a canon. it’s not. he said it simply was his favourite 1000 movies, not a canon, and definintely wasn’t planned to feature a certain amount of films from every country.
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When Did You Begin to Movie Away from the Canon? almost 3 years ago
i only now just noticed the title of his list is “jonathan rosenbaum’s 1000 essential films”, but here is an excerpt of an interview made by someone from imdb.
“Q – One person thinks that despite the many foreign entries, there’s an underrepresentation of Northern, Eastern and Southern European films, countries such as Norway, Sweden (apart from Bergman – how about Victor Sjostrom?), Greece (Angelopolous?), Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (pre-1990), Holland, Romania, Spain, Hungary or Poland? Is it because there seems to be a lack of auteurs in the area? But what about such masters like Lucian Pintilie or Juraj Jakubisko?
A – I didn’’t say anything about a lack of auteurs anywhere. I’m talking about films that matter a lot to me personally—which include at least a few things by Chytilova (Czech), Makavejev (Yugoslav), Jancso and Tarr (Hungarian). But sorry, but I don’t have any particular geographical quotas when it comes to selecting favorites."
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