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Mono No Aware: Filmography

19 Jul 10
Immortal Love

Another fine Kinoshita melodrama, but why the flamenco score?

Immortal Love
17 Jul 10
The Human Bullet

I implore anyone with an interest in Japanese cinema (or cinema in general) to seek out this pitch black anti-war satire from the underrated Okamoto. If nothing else, you'll see Chishu Ryu as you never have before.

The Human Bullet
02 Jun 10
This Transient Life

One of the masterpieces of Japanese New Wave cinema.

This Transient Life

A bit of a misstep from the otherwise excellent Yoshida. At times plays like a pastiche of 60's European art cinema.

Farewell to the Summer Light
10 Apr 10
Shutter Island

Flawed and then some, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a great time.

Shutter Island
24 Dec 09
Sátántangó

As Ms. Sontag is no longer with us, I'll make it my duty to watch this every year for the rest of my life.

Sátántangó
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    Judicial Joe

    26Sep11

    I'm tempted to do that as well, but I don't want to see it again unless it's on a bigger screen and/or in a smaller timeframe. It took me 48 hours to watch it on a 24" LED 1080p television, but I want to see it someday with two intermissions in a theater.

24 Dec 09
Michael Haneke

Haneke in a recent Film Comment interview: "Since puberty, I've always defined myself by taking a certain distance. I see it even in everyday conversations. That's also why I'm not good at accepting accolades. How should I say...As soon as a majority takes shape, I'm against it on principle. It's instinctive. Whenever people agree on everything, I get aggressive."

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19 Dec 09
Ornamental Hairpin

Kinuyo Tanaka giving Chishu Ryu a piggyback. That's enough for me.

Ornamental Hairpin

A hypnotic masterpiece.

Werckmeister Harmonies

A moving and somewhat melodramatic tale of two young friends whose lives take radically different paths. Dora opts for domesticity, while Sunako (brilliantly played by Oikawa Michiko) sinks into life as a Mizoguchi-style fallen woman. Shimizu Hiroshi's reputation as a visual innovator is on full display here as he employs jump-cuts, dissolves, and surprisingly modern camera movements. All of which may have prompted Ozu to proclaim: "I can't shoot films like Shimizu."

Japanese Girls at the Harbor